Boron Elgar > wrote in
:

> remember well, this was
> .triggered by a newspaper printing cartoons - not a government
> printing them, not a political party doing it, not an official
> representative of anything whatsoever, but some small circulation
> newspaper in some small country...and look at what the result is -
> death and destruction.

I am very much aware of that, and at least one Middle Eastern
government has apologized. Many governments were pursuing a diplomatic
solution since the publication which obviously Denmark ignored.
Perhaps this could have been resolved amicably much earlier and none of
this would have come to pass.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/...06toon.leb.php

> I do not care what the content of the cartoons were. I do not care
> what the purpose behind them was. The actions of the entire world
> cannot be controlled, compromised or based upon the beliefs of
> some subset of a religion. To think so and allow it sway is
> absurd, barbaric and unconscionable.

Tell that to Bush. Obviously, that's his (or his advisors') agenda.

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"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why
the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

Dom Helder Camara