Cartoons in Swedish newspaper, Al-Qaeda’s Prophet, and Hadi Elmi of the Islamic Education Center in Houston
Posted by afghanjohn on September 16, 2007
According to press reports (see canada.com and abcnews.go.com) the fundamtalist Islamic organization, Al-Qaeda, is calling for the death of Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks and newspaper editor Ulf Johansson. The Swedish newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda, published a cartoon by Vilks depicting Mohammed, the one Al-Qaeda and 1.6 billion Muslims word-wide regard as a prophet of God.
The statement from Al-Qaeda’s threat-spokesman, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, promises a larger bounty if Vilks is “slaughtered like a lamb”.
Two weeks earlier Muslims in Sweden gathered to protest the cartoon and condemn the cartoonist. Photographs (Associated Press, here; and Agence France-Presse, here) of the demonstrators show protestors holding a banner with the cartoonist’s name written in Arabic script surrounded by flaming fire. On the ground before the demonstrators there are at least 2 banners depicting the Christian cross symbol and the words ”Down with Sweden, Death to Larish”.
The banner with the cross could have been a crude facsimile of the Swedish flag, but the blue color does not seem to match the actual color of the nation’s flag and the dimensions of the cross do not seem to match either.
The placement of the banners on the ground is clearly a gesture designed to show contempt. In this case, it was a clear public demonstration of the contempt the demonstrators have for the Swedish nation, the cartoonist, and the symbol of Chrsitianity. One of the Associated Press photographs here shows the demonstrators burning the cross banner.1
Muslims calling for the death of those who defame the one they call a prophet is nothing new. Salman Rushdie comes to mind. Muslims world-wide have demanded his death becasue of how Mohammed was depicted in his book The Satanic Verses.
Even in the United States, threats of death were issued against Salman Rushdie. Hadi Elmi of the Islamic Education Center in Houston, TX was one such leader protesting and chanting “death to Rushdie” in front of the theater where the writer was invited to speak. According to The Houston Chronicle Elmi said, ”those who commit evil must be punished”.
But this happened on September 10, 2001 and reported in the next morning’s newspaper, September 11, 2001. Several days later, Hadi Elmi seems to have become a moderate Muslim.
1 The photographs on the link has changed since this was first posted.
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UPDATE from Earned Media
To view the cartoons go to http://www.earnedmedia.org/vilks0916.htm
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UPDATE (exerpt) from Associated Press report by Louise Nordstrom
Cartoonist Hiding From al-Qaida Threat
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Sept. 17 (Associated Press) — A Swedish cartoonist who depicted Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog said Monday that police have taken him to a secret location and told him he cannot return home following a death threat from al-Qaida in Iraq.
Lars Vilks, who was whisked away by police when he returned to Sweden from Germany on Sunday, said police have described the threats against him as “very serious.”
“Police guard was nonexistent before this. It’s 100 percent now,” he said in a telephone interview. “I can’t live in my home, I’ve only been allowed to pick up some things.”
…More here.
Christian Newswire said
To view cartoons by Lars Vilks visit http://www.earnedmedia.org/vilks0916.htm
bible beli(n)ever said
all christians are cannibals, they chew FLESH and drink BLOOD of a mortal man.
http://www.bare-jesus.net/e701.htm
afghanjohn said
Afghanjohn says: Comment 2 above represents the style of argument and attack from Muslims who simply can’t dialogue with facts. This particular foolishness seems to have come from one of the European cells.
bible beli(n)ever said
john says: This particular foolishness seems to have come from one of the European cells.
Dont you know, Gods foolishness is smatter than all of us.
______PAUL
so every single desciple of GOD should act foolishly, after all its a DIVINE PRACTICE, isnt???
afghanjohn said
“But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.” Titus 2:23
“Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.” Philippians 3:2
“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” Matthew 7:6
bible beli(n)ever said
The evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
______JESUS
Muslims Against Sharia said
Muslims Against Sharia praise the courage of Lars Vilks, Ulf Johansson, Thorbjorn Larsson and the staff of Nerikes Allehanda and Dagens Nyheter and condemn threats issued by Abu Omar Al Baghdadi and the Islamic State of Iraq. Muslims Against Sharia will provide a payment of 100,000kr (about $15,000) for the information leading to capture or neutralization of Abu Omar Al Baghdadi.
Muslimer mot Sharia berömmer Lars Vilks, Ulf Johansson, Torbjörn Larsson och övriga anställda på Nerikes Allehanda och Dagens Nyheter för deras tapperhet och fördömer hotet från Abu Omar Al Baghdadi och Islamistiska Iraq. Muslimer mot Sharia betalar 100 000 SEK (ca 15 000$) för information som leder till gripande eller oskadligörande av Abu Omar Al Baghdadi.
Muslims Against Sharia
christians against TRINITY said
we condemn the concept of trinity present in contemporary christians.
God is one, those who say god exists as a mutual indewelling of three are IDOLATERS and nothing else, they are not believers.
COME JOIN US, WE ARE UNITARIANS.
Danny Bald said
“But as for these enemies of mine (Jesus) who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence. (Lu 19:27)” Jesus!
“But these (disbelievers in Christianity are), like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed….” (2Pe 2:12). That is the real program of Christian history!
Quotations from Christian N.T. demonstrating the reverse, e.g. that Jesus and the Christians feign to “love” their enemies, do not contradict the trinity of Jesus, respectively, Christians’ depravity, hypocrisy and perfidy! On the contrary, they endorse how camouflaged,insidious and unscrupulous Christianity in principle is! Christians have the least reason to complain about their rivals and competitors!
afghanjohn said
Jesus is telling a story, a parable. Here’s the full context:
And He entered and was passing through Jericho.
And behold, there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus; and he was a chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich.
And he was trying to see who Jesus was, and he was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.
And he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way.
And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”
And he hurried and came down, and received Him gladly.
And when they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
And Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much.”
And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham.
“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
And while they were listening to these things, He went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.
He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return.
“And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with this until I come back.’
“But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
“And it came about that when he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him in order that he might know what business they had done.
“And the first appeared, saying, ‘Master, your mina has made ten minas more.’
“And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, be in authority over ten cities.’
“And the second came, saying, ‘Your mina, master, has made five minas.’
“And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
“And another came, saying, ‘Master, behold your mina, which I kept put away in a handkerchief;
for I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’
“He said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow?
‘Then why did you not put the money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?’
“And he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’
“And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas already.’
“I tell you, that to everyone who has shall more be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.
“But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.”
And after He had said these things, He was going on ahead, ascending to Jerusalem.
Luke 19:1-28
Here is another scripture reference about Jesus that might be of interest. This one actaully describes Jesus. It seems that you should be more afraid of Jesus Himself rather than the Christian religion. . . .
And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war.
And His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon His head are many diadems; and He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except Himself.
And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called The Word of God.
And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.
And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may smite the nations; and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Revelation 19:11-16
bible beli(n)ever said
WOLVES IN SHEEP’S FUR.
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