Via MEMRI: During February and March 2008, Iran’s Sahar TV, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’s (IRIB) foreign language channel that broadcasts in Urdu, French, English, and other languages, aired cartoons as fillers throughout the day. The cartoon soundtrack is highly reminiscent of Disney’s The Lion King and of Warner Brothers’ “Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner” and other Loony Tunes cartoons, and characters’ exclamations sound like those of Homer Simpson and other well-known cartoon characters. To view a 28 minute comilation of segments of this series, visit this MEMRI TV link.
Read More +From 17 Danish Newspapers Print Mohammed Cartoon: At least 17 Danish newspapers printed a controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed Wednesday, vowing to defend freedom of expression a day after police foiled a murder plot against cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
Read More +Michelle Malkin asks “How would the MSM cover an artist exhibition of a “Chocolate Mohammed” timed to coincide with Ramadan? They wouldn’t.” Michelle continues: Wall-to-wall coverage. “Chocolate Jesus” is on Fox, MSNBC, and ABC. And CNN. And all over the web. No pixelation. No withholding the photos in the name of respect for Christianity. No taboos. Where’s the MSM’s concern for avoiding deliberately provocative religious insults now? Remember? “CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons in respect for Islam.” “CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of Prophet Mohammed because the network believes its role is
Read More +From Michelle Malkin: The lying, jihadist Danish imam who helped instigate the Mohammed cartoon riots by touring the Middle East with bogus pictures it attributed the Jyllands-Post has died (hat tip: Sugiero). Abu Laban had cancer: Ahmed Abu Laban, Denmark’s most prominent Muslim leader and a central figure in last year’s uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, has died from cancer, his organization said Friday. He was 60. Abu Laban died late Thursday at the Hvidovre Hospital in Copenhagen after battling lung cancer, said Kasem Ahmad, a spokesman for the Islamic Faith Community. A Palestinian immigrant who became Denmark’s leading
Read More +1,000 hyperlinks to confront Iranian hate propaganda————————————————————————-The Iranian regime’s recent Holocaust denial cartoon contest and conference has unleashed a new wave of hate art and pseudo-academic propaganda designed to advance their political agenda. Together, these acts compose an effective advertising campaign against Jews and Israel. Their cartoon contest has generated 228 persuasive, but one sided images, that are now circulating around the Internet. The conference generated so much media attention that it provided Holocaust deniers an international media platform to spread their hate messages world-wide. Although the Internet has become a breeding ground for bigots, it also provides a forum
Read More +A court ruled on Thursday that a Danish newspaper did not libel Muslims by printing cartoons of Mohammad that unleashed a storm of protests in the Islamic world. Seven Danish Muslim organizations brought the case, saying Jyllands-Posten had libeled them with the images by implying Muslims were terrorists.[Smooth: Implying? ] The Aarhus court said in its ruling, “There is no sufficient reason to assume that the cartoons are or were intended to be insulting…or put forward ideas that could hurt the standing of Muslims in society.” The court ordered the seven organizations to pay the paper’s court expenses.
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