Okay, this scares me! This scares me a lot!!!

[Rainbow gatherer]

This makes even our most fundamentalist right wingers look like the Teletubies. A friend of mine forwarded this site -- just scroll down a bit and check out the signs in London.

http://www.michellemalkin.com/

I for one intend on buying products from Denmark to show solidarity with freedom of speech and opposition to religious intolerance!

[Rainbow gatherer]

1. !

[Poll_Blind]

2. The cute thing is, all those signs were made by the same hand.

Except maybe the yellow one at the bottom and maybe the first one. Check out the way the letter S is written. I'm no graphologist, but those were all done by the same person then handed out. FWIW.

PB

[mikelewis]

17. You're right though that's hardly rare...

Often times one person in the group will make the signs. It's usually the one with the best handwriting. For a terrorist, this person really does have nice script.

[Katherine Brengle]

3. Um, were those photos legitimate, or were they cleverly photoshopped?

Just curious.

I'm not scared of Muslims, but I am a little scared of the general screed that comes out of Malkin...

[Poll_Blind]

4. Those're legit. Saw them on the BEEB. Those more violent signs....

...only showed up near the end of the original protest when another, more militant group of apparent-muslims took over the protest.

PB

[Katherine Brengle]

7. i'm not defending the signs, but obviously those protesters take their...

faith very seriously. Does any of that qualify as hate speech or anything of that nature in the country where it happened? It seems a little excessive, especially if it is all about a cartoon...

Of course, it isn't really about the cartoon. That was just the catalyst for a lot of pent-up frustration and anger over what the Western world (esp. United States) is doing to the Muslim population...

Blech... when did people start taking everything so seriously?

:(

[mirandapriestly]

5. Yeah, what's up with linking to Malkin? nt

[Rainbow gatherer]

6. Never been to the Malkin site...

I have been seeing photographs like this all over the net -- including news services from Europe. The "What's Paris Hilton wearing today?" network news in the USA is barely paying attention to this but the Europeans are.

[Yollam]

10. Malkin is the Asian Ann Coulter - IE a psychopath.

She has not only defended the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, she has called for similar detentions of Muslims today.

I don't agree with the crazed Islamic response to the little cartoons, but Malkin is garbage. I'd find another source to link to.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Agreed - Malkin is a lot more frightening than Muslims.

[Bluebear]

13. THIS scares me! It scares me a lot! >>>>>>>

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. eewww how about a warning next time?

LOL

[laheina]

28. Jeez,

she looks like she's about to hock one on somebody. :scared:

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. A link to Malkin?

Agreeing with her????

Yeah, sure.

:rofl:

Welcome to DU. Enjoy your brief stay. :hi:

[Bluebear]

11. Michelle, you go to bed now.

You have another column to write in the morning.

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[Bluebear]

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[proud2BlibKansan]

32. Did you want something?

LOL

[Maddy McCall]

18. LOL!

:rofl:

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[BooScout]

23. Uhhhhhhhh

They weren't made up. I am in the UK and saw some of them and the protesting on the regular real news last night. Muslims are pissed off all over the UK and Europe over that cartoon.

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. The pictures are genuine

I believe the credibility of the poster is what is being questioned here.

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. I agree with that last sentence

Here, here, we have a winner!
:rofl:

[MatrixEscape]

16. You won't understand it all.

Thought is, by nature, violence. It is a way to achieve oneupmanship over others, in every way, shape, and form.

Some people condemn religion. Other's make fun of philosophy. But all in all, we have gone from a multi-million-hear-old bio-computer with a brain that is so complex and incomprehensible that it is still beyond our science to fully comprehend this. It is a very Divine comedy to say the very, very least.

This thing we call reality, as scientists are starting to see, is encapsulated by a vast, incomprehensible complexity that is infinite and endless, so it seems.

And here we are. Trading the free, inherit, supreme capacities of the bio-computer for the manipulations of loud, aggressive, fortunate, and financially empowered Alpha-monkeys.

Wow, what a supreme and ridiculous waste of what truly is in place of what we are told might be. Only $39.95, Act now!

Most of you currently have no idea whatsoever, (thanks to your acculturated trade-off) of your own power, and, in that case, what is really going on.

Imagine what would happen if you did connect with what you really are, in place of what your are, and have been told to be or want?

[laheina]

31. Now with the neuroscience

you are in a philosophical mood tonight. :D

[demnan]

19. It shouldn't surprise anyone, that this is how they feel

people tend to take their religious beliefs very seriously. At least these cowards (covered faces) are out in the streets with signs, they aren't blowing up stuff, that's a start.

Anybody seen the cartoons that started all this. That's what they're mad at - a cartoon.

[Wilms]

22. I'm picturing fundamentalist right wingers who look like Teletubies

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. Don't post a picture!!

[Maddy McCall]

27. Hahaha!

This has turned out to be a hilarious thread. :rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. I wish I had thought of that

user name. Visions of hippies at a Grateful Dead concert are swimming in my head.

[Dr Ron]

29. Matter of Degree for the right wingers

Following the links there I found one right wing site who uses this to attack liberals, falsely claiming that liberals consider all Christians to be the same as Moslim extremists.

Link to this and my response at The Democratic Daily:

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1853

The American Taliban And Matters of Degree
Posted by Ron Chusid
February 4th, 2006 @ 1:15 am

B. Preston of the JunkYardBlog questions the left’s antipathy towards the religious right by (correctly, if irrelevantly) arguing that they aren’t as bad as Muslim extremists:

"HERE’S SOMETHING I’D LIKE SOME LEFTIST TO ANSWER: Christians get rapped by the left for protesting anything, anytime, anywhere. But we don’t go on societal campaigns of violence, bombing newspapers or anything of the sort that the Muslim world is doing in reaction to the Danish cartoons.

"But here’s the thing. I may not like what Tom Toles did with this cartoon. I pretty much loathe all of Ted Rall’s garbage. I thing The Da Vinci Code is anti-Christian nonsense on stilts. But you don’t see me or any other Christian threatening anyone’s life over any of it. We point it out, we may explain why we don’t like it, we may even write to the newspaper that ran the offending cartoon, whatever. But we don’t go into a spasm of violence and threats across our entire civilization.

"There’s a huge difference in how Christians typically react versus how the Muslims are acting now. Not to mention that on any given day in Pakistan Muslims will bomb a Christian church, but you don’t hear of Christians doing the same thing to Muslim mosquese in the West. But leftists conveniently never see this very huge and extremely obvious difference. They fail to see the nuance, if you will. They miss it consistently, every time."

We see the difference, the problem is that it is often one of nuance. The differences are merely one of degree. While Preston denies the religious right’s practice of censorship, he ignores their attempts to prevent the teaching of biology, geology, or cosmology when it conflicts with their religious views. We’ve seen their recent attempts at censorship at PBS. While definitely less violent that Muslim terrorists, the religious right is practicing a form of violence when they use the powers of the state to impose their religious views on others. It is also a slippery slope when separation of church and state is ignored as we risk far greater restrictions of individual liberty if current positions of the religious right are allowed to continue. The religious right isn’t even free of outright violence, such as with their attacks on abortion providers.

Preston practices the common tactic on the right of creating straw men to attack rather than responding to what liberals are actually saying. Preston states, “THE REASON I ASK is that lefties may or may not realize it, but by lumping Christians in with the worst traits of Islamists, they’re smearing about 2 billion people unfairly.” He ignores the fact that many on the left are Christians, and that the criticism of the religious right is directed at a small minority of Christians.

Preston concludes his post with similar poor logic and lack of toleration of opposing viewpoints:

"If you can’t see the difference between Franklin Graham and Mullah Omar, the problem isn’t with Graham. The problem is with you. You’re either unintentionally or willfully blind. Either way, because of that very obvious blindness and an apparent unwillingness to correct it, you forfeit the right to be taken seriously. So you won’t be."

It is not that liberals don’t see that there are differences between Franklin Graham and Mullah Omar, but that right wingers don’t see the unfortunate similarities. For example, it is Franklin Graham who said “The God of Islam is not the same God of the Christian or the Judeo-Christian faith. It is a different God, and I believe a very evil and a very wicked religion.”

Liberals not only distinguish between the majority of Christians and the religious right, but also acknowledge the differences between Muslim extremists and the majority of Muslims, recognizing that most Muslims see their religion as being opposed to violence as practiced by terrorists. Lumping all members of a religion together in this manner makes perpetual war far more likely, and we have seen the consequences of such blind hatred based upon religion.

[Fridays Child]

33. Assuming the signs are legit (and that's a big assumption)...

...when I consider "freedom," for example, as defined by George Bush, it's not an idea that I can support. When he spreads freedom people die.

In any case, the signs may have been produced by U.S. or U.K. operatives, for the sole purpose of fomenting hatred and provoking fear. After all, those are Bush's most powerful weapons, and he's not afraid to use them against Americans to further his objectives. It's interesting to note, too, that Michelle Malkin has jumped right on the photos, executing her duty as a good little member of the neocon echo chamber.

[Rainbow gatherer]

34. That still doesn't address the issue...

of the hatred that is being displayed here. Like I said, I have no idea who this Malkin character is and I really don't care. This one site was sent to me and includes a lot of the pictures that are in the European press right now -- but are not in the US press as maybe there is a story on some pop star's new navel ring.

Swedish -- go down half the page to "bild" (picture) and click on the links.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,773036,00.html

[maddezmom]

35. locking

Michelle Maklin's site is not reliable.