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<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 1025207" data-attributes="member: 17969"><p>Forgot to paste this...</p><p></p><p>As our politics are overtaken by embassy-riot finger-pointing, it's worth remembering <a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0B14F83D5A0C778CDDAB0894DE404482" target="_blank">how the Bush administration</a> attempted to finesse the 2006 protests of Danish cartoons that mocked Muhammed. (I think everybody knows this by now, but Muslims don't illustrate Muhammad in <em>any </em>form. Hence the outrage.) From February 2006:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">The Muslim world erupted in anger on Friday over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in Europe while the Bush administration offered the protesters support, saying of the cartoons, ''We find them offensive, and we certainly understand why Muslims would find these images offensive.''</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">... The State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack, reading the government's statement on the controversy, said, ''Anti-Muslim images are as unacceptable as anti-Semitic images,'' which are routinely published in the Arab press, ''as anti-Christian images, or any other religious belief.''</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Still, the United States defended the right of the Danish and French newspapers to publish the cartoons. ''We vigorously defend the right of individuals to express points of view,'' Mr. McCormack added.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 1025207, member: 17969"] Forgot to paste this... As our politics are overtaken by embassy-riot finger-pointing, it's worth remembering [URL="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0B14F83D5A0C778CDDAB0894DE404482"]how the Bush administration[/URL] attempted to finesse the 2006 protests of Danish cartoons that mocked Muhammed. (I think everybody knows this by now, but Muslims don't illustrate Muhammad in [I]any [/I]form. Hence the outrage.) From February 2006: [INDENT]The Muslim world erupted in anger on Friday over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in Europe while the Bush administration offered the protesters support, saying of the cartoons, ''We find them offensive, and we certainly understand why Muslims would find these images offensive.''[/INDENT] [INDENT]... The State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack, reading the government's statement on the controversy, said, ''Anti-Muslim images are as unacceptable as anti-Semitic images,'' which are routinely published in the Arab press, ''as anti-Christian images, or any other religious belief.''[/INDENT] [INDENT]Still, the United States defended the right of the Danish and French newspapers to publish the cartoons. ''We vigorously defend the right of individuals to express points of view,'' Mr. McCormack added.[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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