Despite the Danish cartoon controversy, the sun still shines through the edge of the ominous cloud of chauvinistic hate. Iran's biggest news paper responded to those cartoons in typical Islamist knee jerk fashion – by announcing a global competition for the best Holocaust cartoon. Now a group of Israelis has responded, fighting chauvinistic hate with self deprecating humour. They have announced their own anti Semitic cartoon contest - to be drawn only by Jews. Now that is class and style!
Incidentally, when the contest for the best Holocaust cartoons was announced did I let pass any news of Jews burning down embassies!
Israeli group announces anti-Semantic cartoons contest!
Link :Bookma
February 14th, 2006
- A Danish paper publishes a cartoon that mocks Muslims. - An Iranian paper responds with a Holocaust cartoons contest - - Now a group of Israelis announce their own anti-Semitic cartoons contest!
Eyal Zusman (30, back from anonymity) and Amitai Sandy (29), graphic artist and publisher of Dimona Comix Publishing, from Tel-Aviv, Israel, have followed the unfolding of the “Muhammad cartoon-gate” events in amazement, until finally they came up with the right answer to all this insanity - and so they announced today the launch of a new anti-Semitic cartoons contest - this time drawn by Jews themselves!
“We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!” said Sandy “No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!”
The contest has been announced today on the www.boomka.org website, and the initiators accept submissions of cartoons, caricatures and short comic strips from people all over the world. The deadline is Sunday March 5, and the best works will be displayed in an Exhibition in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Sandy is now in the process of arranging sponsorships of large organizations, and promises lucrative prizes for the winners, including of course the famous Matzo-bread baked with the blood of Christian children.
2/26/2006
THE FATWA THAT THE BIGOT'S IGNORE.
Pope John Paul II adopted the stance of appeasement and turned the other cheek when he was confronted with issues on the treatment of religious minorities (and specifically Christians) in Islamic countries. Now the winds of change are blowing through Vatician and it has called upon countries that limit the rights of their own citizens from practising the religion of choice to reciprocate accordingly as Muslims in diaspora residing within their own communities practise their religion and culture more freely than they ever could when compared to their own country of origin.
The Vatician has very clearly enunciated the teachings of one of the six key prophets of Islam - "in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets". Surley no true Muslim, either the silent moderate majority nor the Islamist would object to the fatwa of one of their key prophet and practise double standards unless they are fuelled by chauvinism, greed and inward looking politics?
Vatican to Muslims: practice what you preach
Link : Mywaynews
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS (Reuters)
After backing calls by Muslims for respect for their religion in the Mohammad cartoons row, the Vatican is now urging Islamic countries to reciprocate by showing more tolerance toward their Christian minorities.
Roman Catholic leaders at first said Muslims were right to be outraged when Western newspapers reprinted Danish caricatures of the Prophet, including one with a bomb in his turban. Most Muslims consider any images of Mohammad to be blasphemous.
After criticizing both the cartoons and the violent protests in Muslim countries that followed, the Vatican this week linked the issue to its long-standing concern that the rights of other faiths are limited, sometimes severely, in Muslim countries.
Vatican prelates have been concerned by recent killings of two Catholic priests in Turkey and Nigeria. Turkish media linked the death there to the cartoons row. At least 146 Christians and Muslims have died in five days of religious riots in Nigeria.
"If we tell our people they have no right to offend, we have to tell the others they have no right to destroy us," Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican's Secretary of State (prime minister), told journalists in Rome.
"We must always stress our demand for reciprocity in political contacts with authorities in Islamic countries and, even more, in cultural contacts," Foreign Minister Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo told the daily Corriere della Sera.
Reciprocity -- allowing Christian minorities the same rights as Muslims generally have in Western countries, such as building houses of worship or practicing religion freely -- is at the heart of Vatican diplomacy toward Muslim states.
Vatican diplomats argue that limits on Christians in some Islamic countries are far harsher than restrictions in the West that Muslims decry, such as France's ban on headscarves in state schools.
Saudi Arabia bans all public expression of any non-Muslim religion and sometimes arrests Christians even for worshipping privately. Pakistan allows churches to operate but its Islamic laws effectively deprive Christians of many rights.
Both countries are often criticized at the United Nations Human Rights Commission for violating religious freedoms.
"ENOUGH TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK"
Pope Benedict signaled his concern on Monday when he told the new Moroccan ambassador to the Vatican that peace can only be assured by "respect for the religious convictions and practices of others, in a reciprocal way in all societies."
He mentioned no countries by name. Morocco is tolerant of other religions, but like all Muslim countries frowns on conversion from Islam to another faith.
Iraqi Christians say they were well treated under Saddam Hussein's secular policies, but believers have been killed, churches burned and women forced to wear Muslim garb since Islamic groups gained sway after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Christians make up only a tiny fraction of the population in most Muslim countries. War and political pressure in recent decades have forced many to emigrate from Middle Eastern communities dating back to just after the time of Jesus.
As often happens at the Vatican, lower-level officials have been more outspoken than the Pope and his main aides.
"Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It's our duty to protect ourselves," Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican's supreme court, thundered in the daily La Stampa. Jesus told his followers to "turn the other cheek" when struck.
"The West has had relations with the Arab countries for half a century, mostly for oil, and has not been able to get the slightest concession on human rights," he said.
Bishop Rino Fisichella, head of one of the Roman universities that train young priests from around the world, told Corriere della Sera the Vatican should speak out more.
"Let's drop this diplomatic silence," said the rector of the Pontifical Lateran University. "We should put pressure on international organizations to make the societies and states in majority Muslim countries face up to their responsibilities.
The Vatician has very clearly enunciated the teachings of one of the six key prophets of Islam - "in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets". Surley no true Muslim, either the silent moderate majority nor the Islamist would object to the fatwa of one of their key prophet and practise double standards unless they are fuelled by chauvinism, greed and inward looking politics?
Vatican to Muslims: practice what you preach
Link : Mywaynews
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS (Reuters)
After backing calls by Muslims for respect for their religion in the Mohammad cartoons row, the Vatican is now urging Islamic countries to reciprocate by showing more tolerance toward their Christian minorities.
Roman Catholic leaders at first said Muslims were right to be outraged when Western newspapers reprinted Danish caricatures of the Prophet, including one with a bomb in his turban. Most Muslims consider any images of Mohammad to be blasphemous.
After criticizing both the cartoons and the violent protests in Muslim countries that followed, the Vatican this week linked the issue to its long-standing concern that the rights of other faiths are limited, sometimes severely, in Muslim countries.
Vatican prelates have been concerned by recent killings of two Catholic priests in Turkey and Nigeria. Turkish media linked the death there to the cartoons row. At least 146 Christians and Muslims have died in five days of religious riots in Nigeria.
"If we tell our people they have no right to offend, we have to tell the others they have no right to destroy us," Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican's Secretary of State (prime minister), told journalists in Rome.
"We must always stress our demand for reciprocity in political contacts with authorities in Islamic countries and, even more, in cultural contacts," Foreign Minister Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo told the daily Corriere della Sera.
Reciprocity -- allowing Christian minorities the same rights as Muslims generally have in Western countries, such as building houses of worship or practicing religion freely -- is at the heart of Vatican diplomacy toward Muslim states.
Vatican diplomats argue that limits on Christians in some Islamic countries are far harsher than restrictions in the West that Muslims decry, such as France's ban on headscarves in state schools.
Saudi Arabia bans all public expression of any non-Muslim religion and sometimes arrests Christians even for worshipping privately. Pakistan allows churches to operate but its Islamic laws effectively deprive Christians of many rights.
Both countries are often criticized at the United Nations Human Rights Commission for violating religious freedoms.
"ENOUGH TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK"
Pope Benedict signaled his concern on Monday when he told the new Moroccan ambassador to the Vatican that peace can only be assured by "respect for the religious convictions and practices of others, in a reciprocal way in all societies."
He mentioned no countries by name. Morocco is tolerant of other religions, but like all Muslim countries frowns on conversion from Islam to another faith.
Iraqi Christians say they were well treated under Saddam Hussein's secular policies, but believers have been killed, churches burned and women forced to wear Muslim garb since Islamic groups gained sway after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Christians make up only a tiny fraction of the population in most Muslim countries. War and political pressure in recent decades have forced many to emigrate from Middle Eastern communities dating back to just after the time of Jesus.
As often happens at the Vatican, lower-level officials have been more outspoken than the Pope and his main aides.
"Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It's our duty to protect ourselves," Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican's supreme court, thundered in the daily La Stampa. Jesus told his followers to "turn the other cheek" when struck.
"The West has had relations with the Arab countries for half a century, mostly for oil, and has not been able to get the slightest concession on human rights," he said.
Bishop Rino Fisichella, head of one of the Roman universities that train young priests from around the world, told Corriere della Sera the Vatican should speak out more.
"Let's drop this diplomatic silence," said the rector of the Pontifical Lateran University. "We should put pressure on international organizations to make the societies and states in majority Muslim countries face up to their responsibilities.
2/23/2006
RELIGIOSITY - FORM OVER SUBSTANCE
THE GOVERNMENT SAYS : SHOW CAUSE
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22:One of the region’s oldest newspapers, the New Straits Times, may face action over a comic strip it published last Monday. The newspaper today received a show-cause letter from the Internal Security Ministry over a Non Sequitur cartoon by Wiley Miller, which took a wry view of the controversy surrounding the Prophet Muhammad caricatures first published last year by a Danish newspaper.
The NST has three days to give reasons in writing why action should not be taken against it for publishing the cartoon in the newspaper’s Life &Times section.
The Non Sequitur strip shows a street artist sitting on a chair next to a sign reading: "Caricatures of Muhammad While You Wait!" A boxed caption reads: "Kevin finally achieves his goal to be the most feared man in the world."
2/21/2006
THE GOVERNMENT? -- I THINK NOT.
"I have returned"
A year and a half, that was all it took for H5N1 to rear its head again in Malaysia and there was never any doubt that its next visit would be sooner than expected. So in between those intervening months, did the Agriculture and Agro base Ministry together with the Health Ministry move forward in its operational preparations? The Health Ministry announced that “anti–viral doses” for 60,000 people were already in stock in December 2005…right, for 0.27% of the population. These are not even enough for all the titled big-shots and their families in Malaysia as their entitlement to the drugs would probably come first - if the flu pandemic hits us.
I guess the question should be, “Are we the common people prepared for the pandemic to come?”. The government certainly isn't.
Even SMEs get help on coping with flu crisis
Singapore - Absenteeism rates could rise as high as 20 per cent at small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) if a flu pandemic hits Singapore.To help small businesses cope with such a situation, the Government has launched a guide to help SMEs draft business continuity plans in a crisis.."We need to think ahead, translate the awareness into real action and maybe rehearse plans to see how they turn out, as if avian flu hits us as there's little time to react. So it pays to think through the plans, write it down and rehearse so when buttons are pressed, things move," said Mr Chan Soo Sen, Minister of State for Trade and Industry.Jason Electronics, a company with 110 staff, has already drawn up a flu crisis plan which includes a back-up IT server to ensure work can still go on.....The guide offers tips for employees and other stakeholders such as suppliers on what they can do during each alert level.Two thousand copies of the guide, which will be available online, will be distributed free to the various chambers of commerce
Link : TODAYonLine
2/19/2006
RUSSIAN HOOKERS AND THAI WORKERS
Two court decisions on two murder cases within two days and the public is left in a tizzy trying to make sense of our quality of justice and the manner how sentencing is meted out. We have a web designer involved in a crime of passion despatching his Russian "money-for-honey lover" to eternity and he was sentenced to the gallows. Then, we have 5 Thais who after being verbally abused, ganged up on a law student and beat him to death, the Thais were given a 5 year sentence and may be out in slightly 3 years with good behaviour. Whilst I do not doubt the intellectual ability and the impartialness of our judges in their decisions, the talk in the warong kopi is -- to bump off our own citizen by a foreigner is a less risky business than a Malaysian kissing-off a foreigner, much less one whose identity is yet to be known. Let us hope that the de facto Law Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz will soon clarify the issue and put an end to this murmuring of ......
Death for web designer
Web designer Chian Swee Ong told his Russian girlfriend that he was willing to die for her and to prove it he swallowed 19 pills of painkillers and then slashed his hands.The woman laughed and, in a fit of rage, Chian stabbed her several times. As she was dying, he tried to kill himself by stabbing his chest and then drank a floor-cleaning liquid. He did not die and made several more suicide attempts after that, including drinking an antiseptic and a bleaching fluid as well as taking rat poison Darren's mum upset over "short" jail term
Yesterday, the judge sentenced the 36-year-old to the gallows for killing the woman, whose identity could not be established.....
Disappointment, dissatisfaction and despair.
These are the feelings of Sonia Teh upon learning that each of the five Thais who caused the death of her son Darren Kang received five years' jail each....
The court jailed Sulkifli Muso, 21, Wae Yusoh Wae Salae, 25, Abdun-loh Maming, 21, Abdul Torleh Yama and Masukri Che Mae, both 26, for causing Kang's death at Desa Sri Hartamas here on July 6, 2004.
“Looking at them (the accused), they seem so happy to be sentenced to five years' jail. They don't look remorseful at all,” Teh said.
“They should have been given the maximum sentence. If not, who will learn from it?” .....Just because he (Kang) made some remarks, they had to kill him?” Teh asked.
2/10/2006
DEATH TO AMERIKA !
Good grief! Look at what has been exhibited in New York's Brooklyn Museum of Arts since October 1999. Chris Ofili has "created an 8-foot African Virgin Mary wearing a sequin-adorned blue day-glow gown against a bright orange and yellow background. Her exposed right breast is a smooth ball of elephant dung - about the size of a grapefruit, decorated with concentric circles of sequins and showing bits of grass that the cow had consumed, the portrait speckled with body parts clipped from hard-core pornography magazines. Fluttering around her are not the wings of angels but by what appears to be magazine cutouts of buttocks'"
Mein Gott!!! Those Amercian infidels have even protected it with Plexiglas, with a velvet rope in front and a guard standing by to protect it after the last defacing attempt by a 72 year old Christian who threw white paint across the work and proceeded to smear it. The ultimate insult is to insult our mothers, let alone the woman revered by billions as the Mother of God.
Now that it is never too late to be sufficiently provoked, maybe I will demonstrate with PAS and the other Islamists next Friday and chant in great frenzy .......
Death to America! Death to Israel, for a good measure ...... Death to Denmark ....... and of course, Death to Chris Ofili.
Mein Gott!!! Those Amercian infidels have even protected it with Plexiglas, with a velvet rope in front and a guard standing by to protect it after the last defacing attempt by a 72 year old Christian who threw white paint across the work and proceeded to smear it. The ultimate insult is to insult our mothers, let alone the woman revered by billions as the Mother of God.
Now that it is never too late to be sufficiently provoked, maybe I will demonstrate with PAS and the other Islamists next Friday and chant in great frenzy .......
Death to America! Death to Israel, for a good measure ...... Death to Denmark ....... and of course, Death to Chris Ofili.
2/08/2006
ERRRRRR.....CARTOONS THAT MAY OFFEND
1. Offensive to some members of the press.
2. Offensive to some members of the Christian community
3. Offensive to some elements of the Islamist fraternity
4. Offensive to the architects who designed the building.
4. Offensive to the architects who designed the building.
5. Offensive to me....I am a perpetual optimist.Please comment.
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