People who do not believe in their own words, let alone languages, culture, or actions, lose.

Either europe begins to gain some confidence in its worth again, or it becomes the opposite of what it is.

I'm going to miss that continent.

Put another one in the win column for the Islamic gang.

Right? How fucking sad.

Did Muslims rally and apologize for Daniel Pearl getting his throat cut on camera? I didn't hear any. But they want to complain about some cartoons???

Well then... I want an aopology for the "affront" felt by me on 9/11. And Daniel Pearl. And Fort Hood.

What'd you say?
No?
No you're not going to apologize?

Well then fuck you Muslim man. If your that fucking offended then go back to the desert and blow yourself up in the name of Allah. Then shove your 72 raisins up your ass when you get to the other side.

>> with descendants of the Prophet Muhammad

WTF?

>> Politiken has not given up its right to publish the cartoons and does not apologize for having printed them, but rather expresses regret for the affront felt by some Muslims.

I wouldn't call this a victory for Islam at all. They are saying "hey, sorry your feelings were hurt. But we're not going to stop doing it just because you got your feelings hurt."

I'd like to think you're right, Eric, but if the Politiken editors wanted to say "we're very, very sorry that Muslims are mindless, murderous goatfuckers", I wish they'd have just come out & said it.

Who's going to apologize to the hundreds who died in the rioting after the cartoons, & the English teacher in Sudan who named the class teddy bear Mohammed, and that beauty pageant in Nigeria a couple of years ago? Every last one of those innocent victims was slaughtered by rampaging Muslims.

They commit mass murder.

We apologize.

Over & over again.

The newspapers freedom of speech includes the right to be an apologetic idiot. I wish they hadn't done it, but hey, it's their right.

Well when you forget that for every single fucking right you enjoy people had to die to defend and preserve it that's what you get. The rights of every free country rest on a foundation of bones.

Well, Amy, what's stopping you from re-publishing those cartoons right here?

I need help with the lyrics a new song I am working on .... The main chorus is something like this ... "kill another muslim for Jesus ..." perhaps set to some nice country twang

Well then... I want an aopology for the "affront" felt by me on 9/11. And Daniel Pearl. And Fort Hood.

And Nick Berg.

"Did Muslims rally and apologize for Daniel Pearl getting his throat cut on camera? I didn't hear any. "

My former roommate was his cousin. It happened a few years before she roomed with me. I can tell you that nothing made my blood boil more than hearing about it when it happened. And words fail to express how much that was intensified upon hearing her perspective on it.

This apology stuff seems to be one-way traffic. Have we in the west lost our balls?

"It may possibly reduce the tensions that have shown themselves to be so resilient."

Of course it "reduces tensions" to acquiesce and submit to a group that wants to destroy you or your rights. That doesn't mean submission is a good idea. It could also have "reduced" an awful lot of "tension" had the whole word simply surrendered to Hitler 60 odd years ago, but somehow I'm glad that enough people didn't take "reducing tension" as their primary goal. The world is full of bad people who will want to destroy you, it has always been thus, and sometimes you have to fight - that involves upping the "tension" temporarily.

I'm trying to think of a time in human history where an apology to barbarians for calling them barbarians worked. Hmmm. Nope.

Word.