This is sort of off topic but relevant still:
"Muslim institute dares Iranian leader to visit Auschwitz"
"BERLIN -- A Muslim cultural institute in Germany on Monday criticized Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad for disparaging the Holocaust, daring him to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp."
""In this place of horror he can again deny the Holocaust, if he has the courage," a spokesman for the Islam-Archiv-Deutschland Central Institute told the German Catholic press agency KNA.
In recent statements, the hardline Iranian president has dismissed the Nazis' systematic slaughter of mainland Europe's Jews as a "myth" used to justify the creation of Israel and called for the state to be "wiped off the map".
"By denying the Holocaust, Ahmadinejad not only denigrated the Jewish victims of the genocide but also the 200,000 Roms and Arabs murdered in the "gypsy camp" of Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps, the institute spokesman said."
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Actually Damian, the Ceeb and others would pat themselves on their head... It's just that they suffer from infra-rectal cranio-occlusion.
Posted at 2006-02-16 16:01:38 [PermaLink]The argument is that the one aroused people to no end whereas the other enrages them too but is necessary to control prisoner abuse.
One could argue that the cartoons, in the long run, will have a positive outcome that the mainstream media has not yet recognized.
That's very disarming, and unforunately, very true.
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I think the US government should behead anyone who publishes Abu Ghraib pictures. Then we can compare apples to apples.
Posted at 2006-02-16 18:45:38 [PermaLink]If the US government did that, it would be accused of being uncivilized.
Does this mean that Islamic fundamentalists are uncivilized? Does anyone from the media dare say so?