Reply Wed 8 Feb, 2006 06:27 pm
Finally , someone from the Muslim sector speaks out against violence due to the cartoons .
KABUL, Afghanistan


Police shot four protesters to death Wednesday to stop hundreds from marching on a southern U.S. military base, as Islamic organizations called for an end to deadly rioting across the Muslim world over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.

"Islam says it's all right to demonstrate but not to resort to violence. This must stop," said senior cleric Mohammed Usman, a member of the Ulama Council _ Afghanistan's top Islamic organization. "We condemn the cartoons but this does not justify violence. These rioters are defaming the name of Islam."



Other members of the council went on radio and television Wednesday to appeal for calm. It followed a statement released Tuesday by the United Nations, European Union and the world's largest Islamic group urging an end to violence.

"Aggression against life and property can only damage the image of a peaceful Islam," said the statement released by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the EU chief Javier Solana.
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Reply Thu 9 Feb, 2006 09:57 am
@Curmudgeon,
This link gives a perspective of where most of the violence seems to be originating from.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200602\FOR20060207a.html

Dr. Martin Kramer of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said some protests may have started locally with the imams, but he also said it is important to look at "who is getting a ride" on the wave of resentment.

The answer to who is behind the trouble "is in the palaces" of the Arab and Muslim world - the leadership. The goal is to divide the transatlantic alliance between Europe and America on key issues facing the world, Kramer said.

"Iran needs for the West to be divided. Syria needs for the west to be divided [and] the Muslim Brotherhood wants to break any embargo [that might be placed on the] Hamas principality," said Kramer.

Saudi Arabia and Egypt want to escape Western pressure to make democratic changes, he said.

"The affair is a godsend for the regimes. They are not interested in Danish apologies. They want to be paid off...in the U.N. Security Council and in the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] and the inner conclaves of the financial institutions [like the World Bank]," he said
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Reply Sun 12 Feb, 2006 09:20 pm
@Curmudgeon,
It's about time Europe is waking up. They always thought we were the bad guys. Turns out radical islam thinks there bad too. To bad when forced to stand up for yourself, few seldom do. Appeazement was and is mosts order of the day. Not this country, bring it on i say.
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