Still Believe islam is a Religion of Peace?

For those of you who still believe islam is a religion of peace, I want you to read this post.

From the Telegraph:

Flame of Islamic fury spreads to BeirutBy Ramsay Short in Beirut and Matt Barnwell (Filed: 06/02/2006)

Thousands of Muslim demonstrators in Beirut clashed with police yesterday, storming the Danish consulate and setting it ablaze in protest over the cartoons that mocked the Prophet Mohammed.
A day after the Syrian demonstrators set fire to the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Damascus, the violence spread to Lebanon.
A Muslim protester expresses his anger in front of the blazing Danish consulate in Beirut
In the early hours, a large group of mainly Sunni Islamic extremists broke through military blockades in the Christian Beirut suburb of Achrafieh, defying tear gas and water cannon to reach the Danish consulate, which had been evacuated two days ago. Security officials said at least 30 people, some protesters and some policemen, were injured in the clashes.
As furious demonstrations were staged across the Muslim world, from Lahore to Gaza, a Roman Catholic priest was shot dead in a church courtyard in north-east Turkey. There were fears that the murder could be the first death connected to the cartoon protests.

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From the Financial Times:

Nordic states fear attacks will spread
By our international staff
Published: February 5 2006 20:36 Last updated: February 6 2006 09:35

Lebanon apologised to Denmark on Monday after demonstrators burned down the Danish consulate in Beirut in protest at the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed but Nordic countries fear that attacks on their foreign missions could spread beyond the Middle East.
As tension mounted in the Muslim world, protests erupted in Afghanistan on Monday where one person died. Meanwhile Muslims in Indonesia staged more peaceful demonstrations outside the Danish embassy in Jakarta, calling on Denmark to apologise.
The Pakistan Medical Association called for a boycott of prescription medicines from firms based in some European countries where the cartoons were published. The association said it would boycott drugs from Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Germany and France.
The incident in Beirut followed attacks on Saturday in Damascus, Syria’s capital, on the embassies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. All the Nordic countries condemned the attacks and demanded security guarantees for their diplomatic staff in the Middle East.
Per Stig Møller, the Danish foreign minister, said: “It is totally unacceptable that governments do not secure embassies in their territory.” But he has also urged Danish businesses to keep a low profile and not speak out in the media.
Jens Stoltenberg, Norway’s prime minister, said: “What happened in Syria is completely unacceptable. We are going to ask Syria for compensation and we will take the matter up at the United Nations.”

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From the Times:

Danish cartoonists fear for their lives
From Anthony Browne in Brussels

TWELVE Danish cartoonists whose pictures sparked such outcry have gone into hiding under round-the-clock protection, fearing for their lives.
The cartoonists, many of whom had reservations about the pictures, have been shocked by how the affair has escalated into a global “clash of civilisations”. They have since tried, unsuccessfully, to stop them being reprinted.
A spokesman for the cartoonists said: “They are in hiding around Denmark. Some of them are really, really scared. They don’t want to see the pictures reprinted all over the world. We couldn’t stop it. We tried, but we couldn’t.”
Mogens Blicher Bjerregaard, president of the Danish Union of Journalists, told The Times: “They are keeping a very low profile. They are very concerned about their safety. They feel a big responsibility on their shoulders. It’s blown up so big. It is tough for them.”
The cartoonists’ names were originally printed in the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten. Flemming Rose, the paper’s cultural editor, invited 25 newspaper cartoonists to draw a picture of Muhammad “how they saw him”, after a children’s author complained that cartoonists would only dare illustrate a book he was writing on the life of Muhammad if they could be anonymous. Twelve cartoonists responded, had their pictures printed in September, and were paid 800 Danish krone (£73) each.
In an interview with a Swedish newspaper this week, some of the cartoonists expressed their doubts about the entire episode. “It felt a little like a lose-lose situation. If I said no, I was a coward who contributes to self-censorship. If I said yes, I became an irresponsible hate monger against Islam,” one of the cartoonists said.
Another said: “I was actually angry when I first received the letter [from Jyllands-Posten]. I thought it was a really bad idea. At first I didn’t want to participate, but then I talked it over with some friends from the Middle East, and they thought I should do it.”
The cartoonists come from a variety of different political backgrounds, which is reflected in their work. While some of the pictures satirise Muhammad, others attack populist right-wing politicians and even Jyllands-Posten itself, which is rightwing.
Having failed to stop the cartoons being reprinted across Europe, the cartoonists have now decided to use all the money raised from the sales of the pictures to set up a foundation which will award an annual international prize for press freedom.
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From The Counterterrorism Blog:

February 04, 2006
More lies from Danish Imams (Updated 2/5)
Last Friday the CT Blog revealed how a delegation of Danish Muslims, led by Copenhagen imam Abu Laban, toured the Middle East in December and showed fabricated cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a very offensive fashion, even though the pictures had never appeared on Jyllands Posten.
The controversy has now exploded in Denmark. Friday night Danish public television, DR, ran two interesting stories about Abu Laban, the man who organized the delegation's trip to the Middle East. While the first profiled him, showing his extensive links to the Egyptian group Gamaa Islamiya, the second showed his double-talk. Abu Laban, in fact, was first shown speaking on Danish television condemning the boycott of Danish goods (in English), then shown interviewed on al Jazeera, cheerfully commenting on the effectiveness of the boycott (in Arabic). To see the stories go to DR's website, click on "Se TV AVISEN" on the right and select the news broadcast from Friday, Feb. 3, at 9 PM (the stories start on the 23rd minute).
Moreover, Andy Cochran has just made available to me the English translation of the Arabic letter that the Danish Muslim delegation presented during their tour of the Middle East. To see the document, irrefutable proof of the delegation's intent to create animosity, click here: Download danish_letter.pdf
UPDATE 2/5: The original files in Arabic and Danish, first published in the Danish daily Ekstra Bladet, can be found here.
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From Fox News:

Lebanon Says Sorry for Danish Mission Fire
Monday, February 06, 2006
Violence Spreads Over Muhammad Caricatures
Leaders Appeal for Calm in Muslim Cartoon Protests
Thousands Protest 'Offensive' Cartoons in Gaza
Militants Surround EU Offices in Gaza Over 'Offensive' Cartoons
Islam Forbids Visual Portrayals of Muhammad
French, German Newspapers Run Muhammad Cartoons

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon apologized Monday to Denmark after rampaging Muslim demonstrators set fire to its diplomatic mission in Beirut, while violent protests escalated throughout the Muslim world against the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Western newspapers.
In Afghanistan, hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police and soldiers during a protest in the central city of Mihtarlam, killing one person and wounding seven. Police fired on the crowd after a protester shot at them and others threw stones and knives, said Dad Mohammed Rasa, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry.
Police used batons and rifle butts to break up a crowd of 200 protesters in front of the presidential palace in Kabul, the Afghan capital. At least three people were injured and seven arrested. Some protesters also threw stones at a guard house outside the main American base in the city, but no injuries were reported.
Elsewhere, violent protests broke out in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. Hundreds of demonstrators hurled rocks at the Danish and American consulates in Surabaya, while protesters burned Danish flags in other cities.
The main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir came to a standstill as shops, businesses and schools shut down for a day to protest the drawings. Dozens of protesters torched Danish flags, burned tires and shouted slogans across Srinagar. Police used tear gas and water cannons to break up protesters in New Delhi.

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From Crosswalk.com:

More Politics Than Religion in Cartoon Controversy, Observers Say
Eva CahenCorrespondent

Paris, France (CNSNews.com) - The controversy over the publication of newspaper cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed raged through the weekend, as some observers here said the issue had become a political one.
Demonstrators in Beirut set fire to the Danish consulate on Sunday and earlier on Saturday, Muslims torched the Danish and Norwegian diplomatic missions in Damascus. Twelve caricatures were published by a Danish newspaper last September and, after Muslim reaction escalated into a Mideast boycott against Danish products, other newspapers republished them, citing the need to defend freedom of expression.
They have now appeared in newspapers and on television programs across Europe and as far afield as New Zealand.
In the view of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a French-based press freedom watchdog, the dispute has shifted from one over liberty of expression versus respect for religion, into a political row.
"One must not be naive," said Annabelle Arki, head of RSF's European desk. "This is a crisis that is essentially political, where you have Arab and Muslim heads of state who have jumped onto the [opportunity] to reinforce their power in their countries."
"We are being manipulated in what we can say or not say in relation to this problem."Arki said that freedom of expression implied such contradictions as possibly offending individuals who hold certain beliefs. But when such instances arise, there are legal means to resolve them.
In this case, "there is a real confrontation of ideas between a very liberal conception of freedom of expression and certain groups of individuals.
"These groups refuse this conception of freedom of expression in order to advance their religious convictions ahead of fundamental human rights that apply to all individuals."

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Meanwhile, the Mainstream Media of the world is working overtime to keep people from seeing the signs and mottos of the islamist as they "protest" (read this as kill, maim and destroy) this slight against their so called "prophet". You can see some of their peaceful words here.

If this is not enough proof for you, remember the Riots over the supposed Koran 'desecration' which later proved to be false? And how do they take out their "peaceful protest" in all of these instances? By torching churches and killing Christian priest. As this goes on, the islamist continue to do, to the Jews and Israel, what they are blaming the Danes (and the rest of the non-islamic word) of doing to them. See examples here and here.

Wake up people. There truly is no great danger to the civilized world than islam. Are you going to sit back and wait for them to bomb the supermarket, mall or theater nearest you?