From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Just make sure your paper's owner isn't from a Moslem controlled country
before you run the cartoons. Sounds like the owner is in CYA mode

"The owner of France Soir, an Egyptian, Raymond Lakah, said he fired
LeFranc to demonstrate "respect for the intimate beliefs of an
individual" - apparently a reference to religious beliefs."

"Mark"  wrote in message
news:43e171eb{at}w3.nls.net...
> Apparently the owner of that paper fired the editor that made the decision
> to run the cartoons and made a groveling apology to anyone, anywhere that
> was at any time offended.
>
> That said, it occurs to me that the president of Harvard and students and
> faculty on campuses across America have already given up with their
> misadventures into "hate speech" tenets within their little fiefdoms.
>
> We've already lost. Buy the prayer mats or die.  can still save us, but it's doubtful>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:43e0c296{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/02/01/france.cartoon.ap/
>>
>> PARIS, France (AP) -- A French newspaper on Wednesday republished
>> caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that caused uproar in the Muslim
>> world when they were printed in a Danish daily, saying that religious
>> dogma has no place in a secular society.
>>
>> The drawings, first printed September 30 in Danish newspaper
>> Jyllands-Posten and reprinted in a Norwegian magazine last month, sparked
>> boycotts and demonstrations against Denmark throughout the Muslim world.
>>
>> Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the prophet to prevent idolatry.
>>
>> The front page of the daily France Soir on Wednesday carried the headline
>> "Yes, We Have the Right to Caricature God" and a cartoon
of Buddhist,
>> Jewish, Muslim and Christian gods floating on a cloud. Inside, the paper
>> reran the drawings.
>>
>> Germany's Welt daily also printed one of the drawings on its front page
>> on Wednesday, arguing that a "right to blasphemy" was anchored in
>> democratic freedoms.
>>
>> "The appearance of the 12 drawings in the Danish press
provoked emotions
>> in the Muslim world because the representation of Allah and his prophet
>> is forbidden. But because no religious dogma can impose itself on a
>> democratic and secular society, France Soir is publishing the
>> incriminating caricatures," France Soir said.
>>
>>
>
>

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