Europe stands up to Muslims

Good for them.

Where is the US media in all of this? Freedom of speech is one of the foundations of America. Come on American media reprint these cartoons and stand up to Muslims and for freedom of speech.

Newspapers across Europe have reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to show support for a Danish paper whose cartoons have sparked Muslim outrage.

Seven publications in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain all carried some of the drawings.

Leave it to the BBC to side with the Muslims and against free speech. The BBC's have your say webpage asks this question: "Should 'anti-Islam' cartoons have been published?".

They're not "anti-Islamic". They represent freedom of speech.

While France's newspaper sacked their editor:

"Other papers stood by their publication. In Berlin, Die Welt argued there was a right to blaspheme in the West, and asked whether Islam was capable of coping with satire.

"The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they were less hypocritical," it wrote in an editorial."

I think he's referring to Muslim crimes against Christians and the Islamization of Britain.

It's not just these cartoons Muslims want banned, they want Piglet banned as well, simply because he is a pig. Some banks in Britain have banned piggy banks because they offend Muslims. Where does it end people?

Don't forget Britain, the BBC is on the Muslims side. Listen to this from the BBC.

Correspondents say the European papers' actions have widened a dispute which has grown very serious for Denmark.

A standard BBC bias trick, "correspondents say". Would that be BBC correspondents by the way? The papers haven't widened the dispute, Muslims have with their intolerance - again.

The Danish-Swedish dairy giant Arla Foods says its sales in the Middle East have plummeted to zero as a result of the row, which sparked a boycott of Danish products across the region.

Help defeat this Muslim boycott and stand up for free speech. You can find UK Arla products here.

Spread the word and buy Danish!

Here's some interesting comments the BBC don't want you to hear.

Editors of French and German papers that republished them said press freedom was more important than the protests and boycotts the cartoons have sparked across the Muslim world.

And

"Enough lessons from these reactionary bigots!" France Soir editor Serge Faubert wrote in a commentary explaining why his newspaper had printed the cartoons.

"Just because the Koran bans images of Mohammed doesn't mean non-Muslims have to submit to this." [Damn right! .ed]

Germany's Die Welt printed a similar piece to accompany the cartoons.

It said: "There is no right to be shielded from satire in the West. Christianity has been the object of ruthless criticism.

"Being able to make fun of the holiest things is a non-negotiable core tradition in our culture."

Stand up to Muslims, for freedom of speech and buy Danish!

More from the Guardian - of all places.

Yesterday Roger Köppel, editor-in-chief of Die Welt, said he had no regrets. He told the Guardian: "It's at the very core of our culture that the most sacred things can be subjected to criticism, laughter and satire. If we stop using our journalistic right of freedom of expression within legal boundaries then we start to have a kind of appeasement mentality. This is a remarkable issue. It's very important we did it. Without this there would be no Life of Brian."

"Appesement mentality". That and freedom of speech is what this is all about.

It is necessary to crush once again the infamous thing, as Voltaire liked to say. This religious intolerance that accepts no mockery, no satire, no ridicule. We citizens of secular and democratic societies are summoned to condemn a dozen caricatures judged offensive to Islam. Summoned by who? By the Muslim Brotherhood, by Syria, the Islamic Jihad, the interior ministers of Arab countries, the Islamic Conferences - all paragons of tolerance, humanism and democracy.

So, we must apologise to them because the freedom of expression they refuse, day after day, to each of their citizens, faithful or militant, is exercised in a society that is not subject to their iron rule. It's the world upside down. No, we will never apologise for being free to speak, to think and to believe.

Bravo! Bravo! And shame on the BBC for signing up to this Muslim nonsense.
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