Russian News: Cartoonists and provocateurs

[PhilipShore]

RIA Novosti, Russia
Cartoonists and provocateurs
08/ 02/ 2006

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20060208/43426558.html

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Vladimir Simonov.) -- Indignant Arabs are burning cartoons that depict Prophet Mohammed with a pig snout. A respected European television channel has fleetingly showed the incriminating cartoon, hinting that Muslims have a weighty reason for fury.

Unfortunately for the channel, there was never such a cartoon in the 12-picture series published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten. Many European newspapers have reprinted them later in solidarity with the Danish journalists. The "Mohammed the pig" caricature was deliberately used to exacerbate tensions and make the actions of Europeans more insulting and sacrilegious.

This is fresh proof that certain forces, and possibly organized centers, are trying to push events to the edge of an abyss. You can describe it as a war of the South against the North, a battle of Islam and Christianity, or a war of civilizations.

This prompts the conclusion that global outrage against the Mohammed cartoons was engineered and orchestrated. By whom? The search should begin in the terrorist zone. Bin Laden and his colleagues could not have dreamed of getting such a present from the Danish newspaper that decided to put a sign of equality between the Prophet and the al-Qaida chief.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I've been wondering about this

even here at DU we got into some rather heated discussions about the cartoons, so I can imagine how angry folks who don't come here got! There is something sinister in the way these cartoons were shown, forgotten, and then bobbed up again at this point in time-could it be so that it would be easier to show Muslim as irrationally violent so that it becomes easier to sell nuking Iran? Or could it be so that it would be easier to show Westerners as uncaring hedonists who are out to destroy Islam so that it becomes easier to enlist recruits into al Qaeda?

[PhilipShore]

5. Bin Laden and Bush and Co. -- hate-- the political philosophy...

of liberals. Dissent in the USA is primarily a pacifist, liberal movement, whom the Repukes hate.

Liberal Christianity in the form of Quakers, etc. are despised by Repukes, just as liberal forms of Islam (such as Sufism)-- is despised by the CIA created Bin Laden movement, and al qaeda.

There are no liberals in the CIA.

[JohnyCanuck]

2. US has supported the indoctrination of Muslim youth by the Taliban

Just be aware that in the past the US has had no problem supporting the indoctrination of Muslim youth into the precepets of Muslim fundamentalism and the teachings of the Taliban, as the US has supplied millions of dollars worth of jihad preaching textbooks which were used by the Taliban for teaching schoolkids.

The excuse was that it was intended to get Muslim population of Afghanistan appropriately riled up against the Russian infidels occupying their country and to motivate the Afghan people to drive the Ruskies out of Afghanistan, handing the Russians their "Vietnam" experience in the process. However, the shipments of these fundamentalist textbooks appeared to continue long after the Russians left Afghanistan. Of course, if there was a long term goal by some to create conditions conducive to a "war of civilizations" scenario, it would make sense why this was so.

The Jihad Schoolbook Scandal...

Why has the US been Shipping Muslim Extremist Schoolbooks into Afghanistan...for 20 Years?

And why is President Bush hiding it?

By Jared Israel


SNIP

Washington Post investigators report that during the past twenty years the US has spent millions of dollars producing fanatical schoolbooks, which were then distributed in Afghanistan.

"The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books..." -- Washington Post, 23 March 2002 (1)

According to the Post the U.S. is now "...wrestling with the unintended consequences of its successful strategy of stirring Islamic fervor to fight communism."

So the books made up the core curriculum in Afghan schools. And what were the unintended consequences? The Post reports that according to unnamed officials the schoolbooks "steeped a generation in violence."

http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/jihad.htm

[bloom]

4. That's interesting.

Not surprising - but interesting.


People need to get clued in about the PR wars.

[bloom]

3. Other snips:

"Some people would discard this supposition as just another example of the theory of a global collusion. We have had Zionists and Masons, and now we have new type of villains. But this cannot explain why the cartoons, published four months ago in an obscure provincial Danish newspaper for local public, have provoked such an outbreak of passions at a highly delicate moment in global history - just when the radical Hamas movement has come to power in Palestine and some members of the Iranian administration are trying to create perimeter defense....

Paradoxically, the U.S. can objectively benefit from the global hysterics around a dozen vulgar cartoons. Washington needs Europe to support its potential decision to use force in order to solve the Iranian nuclear problem. The U.S. administration can now tell the Old World leaders, who bristle at America's unilateral leadership: Look at the fires burning on the doorstep of European embassies. Can one talk politics with this crowd, or allow Iran to get access to enriched uranium or plutonium?"


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If it is "al-Qaida" - I think it's "al-Qaida" working for the CIA or something. It's the neocons who are getting a "present".