Can you say Psyop? "Muhammad Cartoon" proved fake

[MakeItSo]

'Muhammad cartoon' proved fake
Imam added 3 especially provocative images to fuel outrage

One of three especially inflammatory but undocumented Muhammad images distributed by a Danish imam as an example of an "anti-Muslim environment" in the European country turns out to be a poorly reproduced copy of an Associated Press photo taken at a French pig-squealing contest.



The weblog NeanderNews pointed out the image used by Imam Ahmad Abu Laban was a faxed copy of AP's Aug. 15 photo of Jacques Barrot competing at the annual French Pig-Squealing Championships in Trie-sur-Baise.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48718

Isn't it amazing how the "Imam" choreographed his distribution of these fake cartoons throughout the Arab world (independent of the Danish paper) to match PERFECTLY with the beat of the Neocon's war drums!


It was his RECENT distribution of these fake cartoons --- not the publications of other cartoons in Denmark months ago -- that incited the riots.

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Interesting

But I wonder why they used such a crude fake. Even a fourth rate cartoonist with a blunt crayon could have done the assignment to create an offensive stereotype.

[MakeItSo]

4. Here's more

The spokesman for the Islamic Society of Denmark, Ahmed Akkari, claimed he does not know the origin of the three pictures. He said they had been sent anonymously to Danish Muslims. However, when a reporter asked if it could talk to these Muslims, the spokesman refused to reveal their identity.

Abu Laban, who had previously been unwelcome in several Arab states, toured Egypt with fellow Islamic Society of Denmark representatives and spoke with representatives of the Arab League, Egypt's grand mufti and other high-level officials.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/danish-imam-who-faked-cartoons-linked.html

[Wise Doubter]

9. It looks like a xerox of a newspaper clipping. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

2. I'm totally convinced that there are RW Islamic clerics who are

inciting this to help maintain the extremist environment. Moderates on both sides get marginalized, the radicals maintai/increase their power at the expense of the world. I wish the masses on both sides would use more critical thinking skills to see through this.

[Moochy]

7. You got it!

Keep the moderates shut out of the press, and the debate, rally the troops around the flag. The Danish flag, (oh and burn it)

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Rummy will be glad to have proof of why he can't release the Abu Ghraib

photos

[ComerPerro]

29. Fundie muslims vs. Fundie christians. Can't they take the fight elsewhere

and leave the rest of us the fuck alone?

[pauldp]

3. I pretty much assumed from the get go it was psyop

As soon as the TV news stopped covering missing white women in favor of muslim cartoon riots I
knew something was up.

[MakeItSo]

8. "Muslim extemists" have cooperated with British Intelligence in past

"In new revelations, Bisher al-Rawi, a British resident held at the American prison in Cuba, says that MI5 persuaded him to become their unpaid intermediary with the alleged al-Qa'ida leader by promising they would help him if he ran into trouble...

In the letter, seen by The Independent on Sunday, Mr al-Rawi alleges that:

* He was recruited by MI5 weeks after 11 September as a neutral intermediary with Abu Qatada, who allegedly had links with MI5 despite being accused of being al-Qa'ida's 'spiritual leader' and Osama bin Laden's 'ambassador' in Europe.

* MI5 always knew where Abu Qatada was hiding after he fled his home in west London hours before new powers to detain suspects without charge came into force in December 2001. He lived at Elephant & Castle, close to MI5's headquarters, for nine months before being arrested.

* Throughout this time, Mr al-Rawi had 'numerous' meetings with three MI5 agents - 'Alex', 'Matthew' and 'Martin' - in hotels and bars in London, passingmessages between them and Abu Qatada.

* After Mr al-Rawi expressed anxieties his safety was at risk from his contacts with MI5, a service lawyer "assured" him that it would "aid him in his defence would appear as witnesses on his behalf".

http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=11094&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported

[pauldp]

12. Very interesting. Thanks for the link.

The long history of MI6 and MI5 and the CIA manipulating Islamic extremists as assets
is overlooked far too often.

[w13rd0]

13. That reminds me...

...whatever happened to those special ops british soldiers that were caught planting bombs and then busted out of prison by the British military?

[pauldp]

20. I've been wondering the same thing.

That story just stank to high heaven.

[Toucano]

5. Let's have a fatwa on pig squealing contests.

That way, these riots can never happen again. Plus...no more pig squealing constest to deal with!

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Interesting

I thought it was a photo-shopped pic of Bush. Considering some of the talent at DU, I really thought it was something done here to poke fun at Bush.

[EstimatedProphet]

10. Both of the sites you're citing are highly questionable

Come up with a site not bought and paid for by the Republican party and maybe I'll look into it.

[MakeItSo]

11. They're pulling from an independent blog

That's the only reason I used World Net Daily.

http://www.neandernews.com/?p=54%20.

[EstimatedProphet]

14. Check that blog again

It's far from independent. Or unbiased.

[MakeItSo]

15. don't shoot the messenger

It is weird what's been popping up on WND recently. But the photo in question also appeared on a network website some months ago ...

I automatically assume that all sources are biased, btw

[EstimatedProphet]

18. I'm not

My point is that all the sites talking about this are right wing. World Net Daily in particular I believe to be nothing but a scandalsheet, and has no credibility.

I'm thinking right now this might be a rightwing meme they're throwing out, just to mess with the situation. For example, if they claim that the Danish imam is trying to incite muslims to riot, then they may be trying to once again make the case that muslim=evil. That makes it all the more easy to expand our Holy Mission In The Middle East.

I want to see more on this before I make up my mind. There's been way too many cases of the Republican Noise Machine literally making up "facts" out of whole cloth as they go along.

[MakeItSo]

23. WND is taking the opportunity to "color in" the Immam

If the Immam is an asset of western intelligence psyops (as I'm starting to suspect), he needs a personality to go with it. WND is helping out with that. It's interesting to note that they also spread the Super Bowl "nuke threat" story, which seemed like low-rent psyops as well (you know, the fear of terra and all).

But it seems clear based on multiple reports that the cartoons he distributed were fake.

[Henny Penny]

25. Well here's the link to the MSNBC site from Aug 15th.....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8959820

[Newsjock]

16. Here's a report from an authoritative source: the AP

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001994024

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) The Associated Press protested Wednesday the misleading inclusion of an AP photograph in a pamphlet purporting to show images offensive to Islam.

The picture shows a bearded man wearing fake pig ears, a pig nose, and a pink embroidered cap on his head. He was wearing the costume while participating in a pig-squealing contest at an annual festival in a farm village in southern France last summer.

The AP sent out the photo describing the pig-squealing contest on Aug. 14, 2005. The photo had no connection with Islam or the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper in September.

[BushOut06]

17. Who knew Rove had an Islamic counterpart?

KKKRove would be so proud.

[MakeItSo]

22. you got that wrong, the immam probably works for rove

who wants war with iran? rove

who likes to lie a lot about pretexts for war? rove

who wants to portray muslims as violent, faceless heathens to the extent that even liberal democrats are blasting "those people"? rove

who has a $50 billion annual unaccountable black box budget to pull this sort of psyops shit off? rove and the War Machine

[madrchsod]

19. it`s either

the fundy clerics or the aryan nation in europe. the newspaper used an aryan code word in their latest explanation so that maybe the match or the islamics who want to keep the fire burning against the westernization of islam and it`s follwers.

[mikelewis]

21. What's an Aryan code word?

[Mika]

24. Why didn't Karen Hughes just use her own picture?

She wouldn't need to be in a pig squealing contest.

Isn't she still in charge of putting lipstick on US policy in the ME?

[Disturbed]

26. The people who are burning embasies and

rioting are playing right into the Neo Fascists game plan of villifying Iran and Syria. I suspect that inflaming Muslims is part of an over all strategy of the Bush Regime to further the domination of the ME.

[ShortnFiery]

28. I can hear the rhetoric now ...

THESE PEOPLE are savages, barbarians, less than human, will use the bomb against us, etc.

Rag-Heads and Camel Jockeys will be Iraq-Nams names for what was Gooks and Nabobs in the HATE SPEECH of the 60s and early 70s.

Deja Vu anyone?

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Starting now on BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ listen live

A programme investigating the cartoons, including how the extra 3 were added.