From Jihad Watch:
With OIC-approved text, Tajikistan appeals to U.N. to stop Norwegian firm from republishing Muhammad cartoons
Priorities. This is what you use the United Nations for: stopping a private entity in a distant country from republishing some drawings in a book. Under any other circumstances, the absurdity would be obvious and rightly laughed off, but, of course, double standards abound. "Tajikistan urges UN to try to stop republication of Muhammad cartoons," from Interfax, May 6 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
Dushanbe, May 5, Interfax - Tajikistan has urged the United Nations to take measures to stop a Norwegian firm from republishing a book containing cartoons satirizing the Muslim prophet Muhammad that set off global turmoil in 2005.
A letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon "expresses anxiety over the fact that the Norwegian printing press Cappelen Damm plans to republish the book Tyranny of Silence in May 2011," the Tajik Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "This book contains cartoons that blaspheme the name of the Islamic prophet."
Action must be taken. This urgently needs a response, from UNHCAAYPI, the United Nations High Commission on Asking "And Your Point Is?"
Tajikistan, which currently presides in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, had the text of the letter approved by all the other 56 member states of the OIC.
The 12 cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005 first sparked protests in the Danish Muslim community, and were then condemned at an OIC summit in December 2005 and set off mass anti-Danish demonstrations in Muslim countries resulting in numerous fatalities.
Posted by Marisol on May 6, 2011 10:33 AM
And this, related:
Mohammed Image Archive
(return to main Archive page)
The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten created the furor over depictions of Mohammed by publishing a series of 12 drawings after a local author said he was unable to find any artist willing to depict Mohammed for his upcoming illustrated book. The publication of the images in Jyllands-Posten has been condemned around the Islamic world, and has led to the burning of embassies and a boycott of Denmark by Muslim nations.
Here are the Jyllands-Posten drawings, for the record. Each image is an individual jpeg file, courtesy of the Face of Muhammed site. (If you would like to have one jpeg containing all 12 images together, click here.) Scroll down below the 12 original cartoon images on this page to find additional information about the fake Mohammed images distributed in the Middle East to incite outrage, and a detailed follow-up on the illustrated book that started the fuss:
This is what the original Jyllands-Posten page looked like. Notice that there were only 12 cartoons.
(Hat tip: Joanna.)
As seen here, on May 28, 2006, the left-wing Danish newspaper Politiken also reprinted the cartoons, thinking themselves immune to attacks from Muslims because they reprinted the cartoons only for the purpose of criticizing them. Politiken has had a grudge against Jyllands-Posten ever since the cartoon scandal broke.
(Hat tip: SpartacusDk
In early 2008, Kurt Westergaard, the artist who drew the original "exploding head" Mohammed, drew this follow-up version of it, which he explained thusly: "It is me on the right. My head is about to explode of anger concerning the insult to my person. At the same time I am angry about the actions of terror in New York, Madrid and London. I had a special personal relation to New York. I loved to sit in the wonderful bookstore, Borders, in the World Trade Center. To the left I have added the old drawing of Mohammad, because it started it all. The hare symbolizes my own personal courage, which is not that big. It is the part of me, which maybe prefers to get away, and that cannot control everything."
(Hat tip: Infidel Blogger's Alliance.)
The Fake Cartoons
Yet when a delegation of Danish imams went to the Middle East to "discuss" the issue of the cartoons with senior officials and prominent Islamic scholars, the imams openly distributed a booklet that showed many more images -- not only the original 12 cartoons (and, oddly, some other unrelated satirical images clipped from newspapers), but three fraudulent anti-Mohammed depictions that were much more offensive than the ones published in Denmark. A complete, full-color reproduction of the entire booklet can be downloaded as a 12mb PDF file at this URL (linked to from this Danish newspaper site -- at the bottom where it says "Islamisk Trossamfunds mappe [PDF]"). (Hat tip: Martin.) It is now thought that these three bonus images are what ignited the outrage in the Muslim world. The newspaper Ekstra Bladet also obtained a copy of the booklet and presented the three offensive images on its Web site (though not in an easy-to-find place). (This Web site also has all 43 pages of the booklet available for download. Wikipedia currently has a page that not only shows each page, but has a translation of the Danish and Arabic text in the booklet as well.) The fake images all look like low-quality photocopies. Here they are:
(Hat tip: Gerry, Martin H., and rfs.)
With OIC-approved text, Tajikistan appeals to U.N. to stop Norwegian firm from republishing Muhammad cartoons
Priorities. This is what you use the United Nations for: stopping a private entity in a distant country from republishing some drawings in a book. Under any other circumstances, the absurdity would be obvious and rightly laughed off, but, of course, double standards abound. "Tajikistan urges UN to try to stop republication of Muhammad cartoons," from Interfax, May 6 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
Dushanbe, May 5, Interfax - Tajikistan has urged the United Nations to take measures to stop a Norwegian firm from republishing a book containing cartoons satirizing the Muslim prophet Muhammad that set off global turmoil in 2005.
A letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon "expresses anxiety over the fact that the Norwegian printing press Cappelen Damm plans to republish the book Tyranny of Silence in May 2011," the Tajik Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "This book contains cartoons that blaspheme the name of the Islamic prophet."
Action must be taken. This urgently needs a response, from UNHCAAYPI, the United Nations High Commission on Asking "And Your Point Is?"
Tajikistan, which currently presides in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, had the text of the letter approved by all the other 56 member states of the OIC.
The 12 cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005 first sparked protests in the Danish Muslim community, and were then condemned at an OIC summit in December 2005 and set off mass anti-Danish demonstrations in Muslim countries resulting in numerous fatalities.
Posted by Marisol on May 6, 2011 10:33 AM
And this, related:
Mohammed Image Archive
(return to main Archive page)
The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten created the furor over depictions of Mohammed by publishing a series of 12 drawings after a local author said he was unable to find any artist willing to depict Mohammed for his upcoming illustrated book. The publication of the images in Jyllands-Posten has been condemned around the Islamic world, and has led to the burning of embassies and a boycott of Denmark by Muslim nations.
Here are the Jyllands-Posten drawings, for the record. Each image is an individual jpeg file, courtesy of the Face of Muhammed site. (If you would like to have one jpeg containing all 12 images together, click here.) Scroll down below the 12 original cartoon images on this page to find additional information about the fake Mohammed images distributed in the Middle East to incite outrage, and a detailed follow-up on the illustrated book that started the fuss:
This is what the original Jyllands-Posten page looked like. Notice that there were only 12 cartoons.
(Hat tip: Joanna.)
As seen here, on May 28, 2006, the left-wing Danish newspaper Politiken also reprinted the cartoons, thinking themselves immune to attacks from Muslims because they reprinted the cartoons only for the purpose of criticizing them. Politiken has had a grudge against Jyllands-Posten ever since the cartoon scandal broke.
(Hat tip: SpartacusDk
In early 2008, Kurt Westergaard, the artist who drew the original "exploding head" Mohammed, drew this follow-up version of it, which he explained thusly: "It is me on the right. My head is about to explode of anger concerning the insult to my person. At the same time I am angry about the actions of terror in New York, Madrid and London. I had a special personal relation to New York. I loved to sit in the wonderful bookstore, Borders, in the World Trade Center. To the left I have added the old drawing of Mohammad, because it started it all. The hare symbolizes my own personal courage, which is not that big. It is the part of me, which maybe prefers to get away, and that cannot control everything."
(Hat tip: Infidel Blogger's Alliance.)
The Fake Cartoons
Yet when a delegation of Danish imams went to the Middle East to "discuss" the issue of the cartoons with senior officials and prominent Islamic scholars, the imams openly distributed a booklet that showed many more images -- not only the original 12 cartoons (and, oddly, some other unrelated satirical images clipped from newspapers), but three fraudulent anti-Mohammed depictions that were much more offensive than the ones published in Denmark. A complete, full-color reproduction of the entire booklet can be downloaded as a 12mb PDF file at this URL (linked to from this Danish newspaper site -- at the bottom where it says "Islamisk Trossamfunds mappe [PDF]"). (Hat tip: Martin.) It is now thought that these three bonus images are what ignited the outrage in the Muslim world. The newspaper Ekstra Bladet also obtained a copy of the booklet and presented the three offensive images on its Web site (though not in an easy-to-find place). (This Web site also has all 43 pages of the booklet available for download. Wikipedia currently has a page that not only shows each page, but has a translation of the Danish and Arabic text in the booklet as well.) The fake images all look like low-quality photocopies. Here they are:
(Hat tip: Gerry, Martin H., and rfs.)
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