US - Prophet Cartoons Riles College

Er, no. They riled Muslims.

Outside, several hundred members of the Muslim Student Union and their supporters staged a protest and teach-in to counter the event, which they said was the equivalent of hate speech.

During the panel discussion, a moderator with The United American Committee displayed six cartoons: three depicting Prophet Muhammad and three anti-Semitic cartoons he said had appeared in Middle Eastern newspapers.

Sounds reasonable.

Panelists were cheered when they referred to Muslims as fascists and accused mainstream Muslim-American civil rights groups of being ``cheerleaders for terror.''

``I put out a call to Muslims in America: put out a fatwah on bin Laden, put out a fatwah on al-Zarqawi,'' said panelist Lee Kaplan, a spokesman for the United American Committee, a group that promotes awareness of internal threats that face America. ``Support America in the war on terror.'' [Have you ever seen Muslims anywhere in the world protesting against bin Laden or Zarqawi? Didn't think so]

The panel discussion got off to a contentious start, with the Council on American-Islamic Relations boycotting the event and calling the United American Committee a ``fringe group.''

CAIR may call the UAC a "fringe group" but CAIR's links to terrorism are well documented.
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