CNN'S Hypocrisy In Not Showing Cartoons Of Prophet Mohammed (Muhammad)
Robert Paul Reyes
February 04, 2006
Hordes of devout Muslims demonstrated their deep love of Islam by storming the Danish Embassy in Damascus and torching the building.
The mob was protesting caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed (Muhammad) that were first published in a Danish newspaper months ago.
The building also houses the embassies of Chile and Sweden. Danes, Chileans, Swedes, what's the difference, after all they are all infidels.
The controversial cartoons, were first printed in a Danish newspaper and then published in France and Germany.
One cartoon shows Mohammed wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse. To a devout Muslim that's sacrilege, but to the cartoonist, and to most of us in the West, it's valid political commentary.
Islamic law prohibits any depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, but free citizens in the West are not living under Sharia law, at least not yet, and we are not bound by any such prohibitions.
In a story about the controversy surrounding the cartoons, CNN has this disclaimer: "CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of respect for Islam."
Hogwash! Their statement should have read: CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of fear of Islam.
In a March 27, 2000 article published online by CNN they showed an image of Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary." The artist used elephant dung and images of female genitalia in that work.
CNN has a yellow streak, they are well aware that when they publish stories that are deemed offensive to Catholics or other Christians, the offended parties respond by writing letters to the editor, but all too often when Muslims feel slighted they resort to violence.
CNN should report every facet of an important news story, those cartoons are central to the whole controversy, they should have published the images of the Prophet Mohammed.
The mob was protesting caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed (Muhammad) that were first published in a Danish newspaper months ago.
The building also houses the embassies of Chile and Sweden. Danes, Chileans, Swedes, what's the difference, after all they are all infidels.
The controversial cartoons, were first printed in a Danish newspaper and then published in France and Germany.
One cartoon shows Mohammed wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse. To a devout Muslim that's sacrilege, but to the cartoonist, and to most of us in the West, it's valid political commentary.
Islamic law prohibits any depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, but free citizens in the West are not living under Sharia law, at least not yet, and we are not bound by any such prohibitions.
In a story about the controversy surrounding the cartoons, CNN has this disclaimer: "CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of respect for Islam."
Hogwash! Their statement should have read: CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of fear of Islam.
In a March 27, 2000 article published online by CNN they showed an image of Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary." The artist used elephant dung and images of female genitalia in that work.
CNN has a yellow streak, they are well aware that when they publish stories that are deemed offensive to Catholics or other Christians, the offended parties respond by writing letters to the editor, but all too often when Muslims feel slighted they resort to violence.
CNN should report every facet of an important news story, those cartoons are central to the whole controversy, they should have published the images of the Prophet Mohammed.
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