Freeedom of Speech

Jean Lansford oystrgal at BELLSOUTH.NET
Tue Feb 7 11:22:06 EST 2006


> In fact it took a bunch of Danish Imams four months of hawking this
> protest around the middle east to get it to ignition heat.  When they
> began to realise that the original 12 drawings (commissioned to
> illustrate self-censorship, not to pick a fight - the guy was originally
> writing a kid's book about the life of Mohammed and couldn't find an
> illustrator) weren't bothering much of anyone.  To ramp it up, the Imams
> drew (or had drawn) a picture of the Prophet with a pig's snout and
> trotters (I'm guessing that this is just about as insulting as it's
> possible to get) and went on TV in Jordan (and a BBC international
> station) claiming that it was one of the Danish drawings.  They drew
> three fake drawings in all and have been exposed for this in Denmark -
> a big part of the reason the Danes are rather annoyed.

More than just the pig snout. You can see the additional
pictures toward the bottom of this page:

http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/

Not everything on that page is safe for work.



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