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Islamic caricatures are all the rage

Postby heath7 » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:20 pm

<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-02-03T080502Z_01_L03396964_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CARTOONS-SPAIN.xml&rpc=22">Spain's El Pais prints front page Mohammad cartoon</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>This controversy regarding these Muslim caricatures has been steadily brewing for a while now. And <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>now</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> Spain's leading newspaper puts one on its front page, apparently with little or no explanation. Worldwide riots as a result of the entire fuss. <br><br>What's the deal? It seems like such a stupid thing for such rage to build up over. I am amazed by the intentfulness that seems to emanate from western and eastern society. The west's 'nah, nah, nah, nah, nah' and the east's violent reaction to these prints makes it seem confrontation is being begged for. <br><br>I will admit that I know some of the Bible, and I know that its prophesied in both Christianity and Islam that a great East-West confrontation is gonna come, but I don't mean to sound like some wacky evangelical. Are these people really trying to meet at Armageddon? <br><br>Who at the top could possibly benefit (from the perspective that it all makes sense expressed in terms of money) from an all out conflagration, which I strongly sense is being engineered?<br><br>Is it just me?<br><br>After all, World War I was supposedly started over a single murder. <br><br>---On edit, to be clear, I don't mean to insinuate that just these caricatures are leading us to world war. Its them, combined with worldwide rioting over the death of a couple French-Muslim youths, coupled with the west's seeming unanimous intent at flushing out the current Iranian regime, the disaster in Iraq, the newly free Gaza's sudden abandonment by the west because known-agents-of-Israel Hamas won a 'surprise' landslide election victory, etc., etc... <br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=heath7>heath7</A> at: 2/3/06 3:34 pm<br></i>
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wake up and smell the psyop

Postby Trifecta » Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:46 am

60 plus protesters turned up out of the blue <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> picketing the BBC for showing brief clips on newsnight, the hired hands were screaming another 7/7 is coming your way, behead those against islam etc. This was an MI 5/6 opperation.<br><br>It all loops nicely into the Iran, Syria and palestinian situations, throw in Sharon in a coma and the whole thing stinks up the MC going on ... watch this one run its course ... control of the emotional pulse of multi culturalism's divide and conquer. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: wake up and smell the psyop

Postby antiaristo » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:02 am

Aparently the Joint Chiefs are complaining about a Tom Toles cartoon. I read they've complained formally.<br>It' a great cartoon (unlike the attack on Moslems. Where was the humour there?)<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.html?name=Toles&date=01292006">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...e=01292006</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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The Road to World War Three

Postby Trifecta » Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:34 pm

This lot could be squashed by the machine in a blink of an eye, yet they have a much bigger role to play for the puppet masters. This article pens well the psyop taking place, here and all over Europe. Even if Truth sekker has an alternative agenda, the article spells it out clearly.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4121">www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/...sp?ID=4121</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The Road to World War Three <br>Rixon Stewart – February 3, 2006<br><br>The acquittal and retrial of British National Party leaders on charges of inciting “racial hatred” was the lead item on BBC TV News broadcasts (1) Thursday night. Followed immediately by a report on the furore (2) in the Muslim community caused by cartoons depicting Mohammad. <br><br>On the face of it this might seem perfectly reasonable journalism but the juxtaposition of the two as lead items, when far more important things are going on – such as the war in Iraq or the pending attack on Iran – reveals a darker agenda altogether. <br><br>First and foremost it must be pointed out that enmity between various groups is being deliberately fostered, no matter what the authorities say, and much of this is being done under the guise of “press freedom”. It’s a variation on the old theme of divide and rule and the juxtaposition and prominence given to these two stories is a perfect example of just how this is being achieved. <br><br>Nobody in the mainstream media will question why such a relatively unimportant item like the BNP story was given such prominence. Nor will they question why it was immediately followed by a story that in contrast seems almost guaranteed to provoke further friction and enmity. <br><br>Although that may have been the intention, don’t expect the mainstream media to tell you. Its function in the emerging New World Order is to shape and condition public perception, and in this particular case, to foment antagonism between the Islamic world and the West. <br><br>However, Nick Griffin’s acquittal and retrial is only part of a much bigger story that you won’t be hearing from the BBC. <br><br>When Nick Griffin was arrested and charged some months back, a contributor to this website, Dave Starbuck who personally knows Griffin, informed me that the trial would be a “show trial” and that Griffin would be acquitted. Sure enough he was: but to ensure that tension between various ethnic groups remains high, Griffin now faces a retrial. The authorities are, in a sense, furthering fuelling the fires of tension and enmity with the retrial. <br><br>But as Dave Starbuck informed us, Nick Griffin is in the pay of British Intelligence. Like George Bush (3), he has a known homosexual past that is used as a means to manipulate him: with threats of exposure, or tempt him with offers to gratify his perverted lusts <br><br>Either way, like George Bush (4) he’s very much a pawn for the powers that be. <br><br>According to Dave, Griffin ousted the former leader of the British National Party by careful manipulation and as soon as he took control of the party he altered policies and procedures to ensure he stayed in control. Anyone who disagreed with him was thrown out of the party while Griffin made a point of promoting cronies to prominence <br><br>At the behest of British Intelligence, he took control of the party in an effort to neutralise what may have become a genuine stumbling block to the New World Order. He also made a point of banning Dave’s adverts promoting alternative health remedies and alternative views of history from the party’s publication. <br><br>So Nick Griffin is no more than a stooge for the ruling elite and the prominence given to his acquittal and subsequent retrial are ploys to foment further internecine antagonism. <br><br>While Griffin’s acquittal was given much coverage, it was followed by another report that when seen in contrast seemed guaranteed to heighten tension still further. <br><br>As Griffin’s court appearance was playing out a series of cartoons appeared across Europe that incited anger among Muslims. <br><br>That may have been the intention, although don't expect the mainstream media to tell you. Muslims consider any depiction of Mohammad blasphemous but overnight cartoons featuring Muhammad appeared across Europe. Newspapers in France, Germany, Spain (5), Switzerland and Hungary all reprinted caricatures originally published in Denmark, while the BBC announced (6) that it too would broadcast the cartoons of the prophet. <br><br>The following day the Independent ran the two stories together on its front page, and asked “What price free speech”? While the Daily Express also ran both stories together on its front page under the headline: “The Price of Free Speech”. <br><br>Of course, it’s nothing of the kind. Far from being an expression of “Free Speech” it was an example of modern psychological warfare. A Psy-Ops carried out under the veil of a supposedly “free press” and intended to foment distrust and enmity between the Muslim world and ordinary Westerners. <br><br>Moreover, the seeds of this operation were first laid over a century ago. When satanic prophet and one of modern freemasonry’s founders, Albert Pike, first outlined a plan for three world wars (7). <br><br>According to Pike, agents of the Illuminati would provoke conflict between Britain and Germany leading to the First World War and the overthrow of Imperial Russia, turning Russia into a “fortress of atheistic communism”. <br><br>The Second World War was to be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between fascists and political Zionists, wrote Pike. Leading ultimately to the destruction of Nazism and the establishment of “a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine”. <br><br>These events have already occurred exactly as Albert Pike envisioned over a century ago, so perhaps we should take note of his vision of a Third World War. <br><br>Pike continued: <br><br>"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue (by a massive influx of immigrants into Europe) will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…” <br><br>Unfortunately, there's worse to come because all this was intended as a prelude the rule of Satan, Pike wrote (<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> . So don't say you haven't been warned and don't think it will end with the next terror atrocity, staged or otherwise. <br><br>Unless people start waking up from their media induced apathy and illusions, things could be about to get much, much nastier. Although don't expect the BBC to tell you, they'll probably be too busy with televised celebrations to mark the inauguration of the planets new ruler. <br> <br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: The Road to World War Three

Postby antiaristo » Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:01 pm

While I believe there is some truth in this, I really have to question the good faith of the author. For example<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>But as Dave Starbuck informed us, Nick Griffin is in the pay of British Intelligence. Like George Bush (3), he has a known homosexual past that is used as a means to manipulate him: with threats of exposure, or tempt him with offers to gratify his <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>perverted lusts</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>That sort of language is calculated to bring forth a reaction. I don't know if Mr Rixon recognises that homosexuality was legalised in the United Kingdom in 1967.<br><br>We've all got our own biases. This is a free speech issue. Rather than demonise homosexuals why not point out that free speech does not exist in the UK? For example, Kitty Kelley's book on the House of Windsor was banned. The reason given? "It's tittle tattle." Well, one man's tittle tattle is another man's deep truth!<br><br>Why has it proven necessary to preserve a semblance of free speech through the theatre? Examples include the Scott hearings on arms sales to Iraq/Iran. And more recently Richard Norton Taylor penned a play on the Hutton hearings. The answer is that a law has been passed mandating freedom of expression IN THE THEATRE. No such law exists elsewhere, so THERE IS NO SUCH FREEDOM.<br><br>This looks to me like wheels within wheels within wheels.<br><br>But my larger point is this. If you do not have free expression where the Windsors are concerned, you don't have it where the Prophet is concerned.<br><br>And dealing specifically with El Pais. I can think of some very funny cartoon themes concerning the Borbons. So I'd like to ask Mr de Polanco "Why nothing lampooning the King?"<br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antiaristo>antiaristo</A> at: 2/4/06 1:07 pm<br></i>
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Re: The Road to World War Three

Postby Darklo » Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:47 pm

It certainly looks like there is a plan to create a war between the Christians and the Muslims.<br><br>And the cambridge educated Nick Griffin stinks of being in the pocket of the secret services. He just another shill to control the argument. He probably thinks he has the support of a clandestine unit that secretly supports him and is trying to "sort out the UK". In reality he is just an asset.<br><br>I am sure that David Cameron is a secret service asset, as is Blair, and Jack straw. <br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: The Road to World War Three

Postby heath7 » Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:38 pm

DOOHHHHHHH!!!! He had to mix Albert Pike into the conversation too?<br><br>I like some of the points Mr. Stewart made, but he mixed in too many unknown unknowns to keep a good focus on the growing divide we find ourselves in. <br><br>That the newscasts and newspapers try to focus their energies on growing this divide is paramount. What for? And why infect all of Europe, and by rote the Muslim world, with this easily squashable divisiveness? What is the ultimate motive? <br><br>Half of all Iraqis are open about believing it is right for insurgents to attack US soldiers; this is what we are told. Does the rest of the world of Islam feel the same way? Its easy to suspect so with all the demonstrations that break out with every grievance toward the west, especially within 'allies', such as Pakistan. <br><br>When the crusade is expanded to the heart of Persia, with the nurtured, united support of old-worlders and new-worlders alike, what will our expectation be then? How will the east live in peace with the west then? There has obviously been a lot of radicalization on both sides; how can the impending invasion of Iran not be the final line in the sand from whence we will not be able to return?<br><br>Can/will this unwinnable war be stopped?<br><br>I'd seriously like to hear intelligent arguments why this war with Iran won't be initiated, or why this war with Iran won't lead to the the first epic split in human civilization this world has never seen. <p></p><i></i>
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Why the article stacks up

Postby Trifecta » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:22 pm

They all have a club, it is predominatly a boys club, and boys being boys they like to have fun, except there fun is usually a form of sadistic release. They share these secrets with one another, bonded by sexual perversions of all ilk, no doubt?<br><br>This is the bonds that bind them. Griffin and Collete (his son in law (almost) and air. A good roman for our times. Hired thugs is hired thugs. The muslim brotherhood our the other side of the con. No can you see why jewish money may indeed be a motivating factor, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.<br><br>Pike ... yeah that did it for me. The occult opperates in all these areas...heard of the Sharon death curse... the mind boggles.<br><br>Whatever, a large scale psyop is being played out, it links a lot of the loose ends. The mastermind of all this is one sick mofo. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Islamic caricatures are all the rage

Postby Pirx » Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:54 am

"Controversy over the publication of images depicting Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has erupted into an international furor. While Muslims worldwide are calling for a boycott of Denmark and any other nation whose press reprints the cartoons, Europeans are trying to stand up for Western principles of freedom of speech and not cave in to self-censorship in the name of multiculturalism and fear. <br><br>While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it's just that no other images of Mohammed have ever been so widely publicized."<br><br>The images in the archive below have been divided into the following categories: <br><br>Islamic Paintings and Miniatures Showing Mohammed in Full <br>Islamic Depictions of Mohammed with Face Hidden <br>European Medieval and Renaissance Images <br>Book Illustrations <br>Dante's Inferno <br>French Book Covers <br>Various Eras <br>Contemporary Christian Drawings <br>Animated TV Parodies <br>Satirical Modern Cartoons <br>The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons <br>Recent Responses to the Controversy <br>Links<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/">www.zombietime.com/mohamm...e_archive/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=pirx@rigorousintuition>Pirx</A> at: 2/4/06 10:00 pm<br></i>
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You have to wonder

Postby sunny » Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:02 am

why Muslims are upset enough to riot in Europe over cartoons, and not riot over the slaughter in Iraq. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: You have to wonder, too

Postby Asta » Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:17 pm

why Christians went bonkers over Teri Shiavo and not over the slain soldiers in Irag....same symptoms of the same fanatical illness?<br><br>My head hurts. So does my heart. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: You have to wonder, too

Postby chiggerbit » Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:23 pm

This reminds me of the Amish restriction against allowing pictures of themselves being taken. We have a lot of Amish living around here, but there are always people sneaking pictures of them. Seems disrespectful of them, especially since they have done nothing to deserve that kind of disrespect. Kind of like pissing on the cross or something similar. What's going on in Europe is just another form of racism, I suspect. <p></p><i></i>
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Self-expression...

Postby marykmusic » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:17 am

...takes many forms. Political cartoons have often edged into the realm of Dangerous Art.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>If you do not have free expression where the Windsors are concerned, you don't have it where the Prophet is concerned.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> --said Antiaristo. Cindy Sheehan didn't have freedom of expression within the same room as the Preznut, wearing a shirt that labeled her as a "protester."<br><br>In my Masters' program colloquim this morning, I went to a presentation with last night's keynote speaker, Claudia Bernardi (this link talks about what she spoke about last night): <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Gallery/bernardi/angelina.htm" target="top">ist-socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Gallery/bernardi/angelina.htm</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> This morning it was about art created as a protest in her native Argentine during the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>desaparecidas</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, from 1976 to 1983. Artists were among the 30,000 or so people who disappeared during that time; rememberances in the form of Dangerous Art were produced, and are still happening there. Here's a link to what I just saw with her (and today I took my 13-year-old son with me, who was visibly moved): <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.prescott.edu/students/map/colloquium_current.html" target="top">www.prescott.edu/students/map/colloquium_current.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>It isn't safe to be a protest artist, nor to be supportive of same. This includes political cartoonists. That newspaper in Denmark chose to support the right of self-expression; in return their embassy in Beruit has been attacked. Although it is highly likely that this whole thing is a psy-op, a sham, it still points out the power of art in affecting the world. <br><br>Religion is a hot-button topic, even here at RI amongst (mostly) liberals. What do we expect from this volatile topic in a part of the world where religious belief carries over into secular law? And don't foget; it is against Muslim tenets to have graven images of ANYone. That's why their artforms are about geometrics and stylized plant-forms. Never about anything considered "created by Allah." --MaryK <p></p><i></i>
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More Straussian Psychological Warfare?

Postby Trifecta » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:46 am

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=209">kurtnimmo.com/?p=209</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Burning Down Danish Embassies: More Straussian Psychological Warfare? <br>Sunday February 05th 2006, 6:48 pm <br><br>Amidst the corporate media feeding frenzy over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September and subsequently reprinted in European media and New Zealand in the past week, one important element has apparently slipped under the wire—the complicity of Danish imams who “circulated the images to brethren in Muslim countries,” according to Charles Moore, writing for the UK Telegraph. “When they did so, they included in their package three other, much more offensive cartoons which had not appeared in Jyllands-Posten but were lumped together so that many thought they had.” <br><br>Moore also finds it suspicious that there was no shortage of Danish flags to burn. “I raise the question because, as soon as the row about the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Jyllands-Posten broke, angry Muslims popped up in Gaza City, and many other places, well supplied with Danish flags ready to burn…. Why were those Danish flags to hand? Who built up the stockpile so that they could be quickly dragged out right across the Muslim world and burnt where television cameras would come and look? The more you study this story of ’spontaneous’ Muslim rage, the odder it seems.” Moore also mentions Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, head of the International Association of Muslim Scholars, who has called for an “international day of anger” in response to the cartoons. <br><br>For Straussian neocons and their fellow “clash of civilization” (war against Islam) travelers, al-Qaradawi is the perfect radical Muslim for their propaganda purposes. He supports Palestinian suicide bombing and opposes negotiating with Israel. According to the neocon and Jabotinsky Likudite organization MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute), al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa calling for the murder of all Americans in Iraq, both civilian and military (as it turns out, al-Qaradawi never issued the fatwa and Straussian neocon lies are legendary). It is also said the imam supports the execution of gay men, although this point is of less importance to the Straussians who run foreign policy in the United States. <br><br>As well, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi conforms to the Straussian claim that militant Islam wants to take over the world and convert all infidels. “The influential Qatar-based cleric is best known for his public support of the terrorist group Hamas and his religious rulings applauding suicide bombings, positions which caused the U.S. State Department in 1999 to bar him from entering the United States,” the Boston Herald reported in March, 2004. “Beyond that, however, al-Qaradawi also promises that eventually Islam will prevail over all other religions and a single Islamic state will rule the world…. Al-Qaradawi says some countries will fall to the armed Islamic jihad, but in others, such as the United States, victory will come through Da’awa—the teaching of Islam to non-Muslims—which will trigger Westerners to convert to Islam…” <br><br>It is important to note that al-Qaradawi is a prominent figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization long ago penetrated by British and U.S. intelligence. “Dr. John Coleman, a former British Intelligence agent,” explains Peter Goodgame, “states in his report on Iran’s Islamic Revolution that the Muslim Brotherhood was created by ‘the great names of British Middle East intelligence’ …and that their mission was to ‘keep the Middle East backward so that its natural resource, oil, could continue to be looted.’” <br><br>Of course, we have little evidence that al-Qaradawi works for British and U.S. intelligence, although plenty of other manufactured terrorists—from Osama bin Laden (also known as “Osama bin London”) and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar—are connected to the compromised organization (along with Islamic Jihad and Hamas). <br><br>Once again cui bono—who benefits—enters the equation: Muslims may burn off some of their outrage over what they see as a denigration (through idolatry) of their religion, but at the end of the day the Straussian-Jabotinsky Likudite coalition score big propaganda points as, once again, people in America and Europe (who must be periodically reminded of the necessity for the “clash of civilizations” agenda for total war) are incensed by the violence spreading across the Middle East and are convinced that all Muslims are crazed fanatics who must be ultimately dealt with.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Hypocrisy

Postby antiaristo » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:13 pm

Freedom of speech applies to those that own the press.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>1.30pm <br><br>Danish paper rejected Jesus cartoons <br><br>Gwladys Fouché and agencies<br>Monday February 6, 2006 <br><br><br>Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused a storm of protest throughout the Islamic world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ, it has emerged today.<br>The Danish daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny.<br><br>In April 2003, Danish illustrator Christoffer Zieler submitted a series of unsolicited cartoons dealing with the resurrection of Christ to Jyllands-Posten.<br><br>Zieler received an email back from the paper's Sunday editor, Jens Kaiser, which said: "I don't think Jyllands-Posten's readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think that they will provoke an outcry. Therefore, I will not use them."<br><br>The illustrator told the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, which saw the email: "I see the cartoons as an innocent joke, of the type that my Christian grandfather would enjoy."<br><br>"I showed them to a few pastors and they thought they were funny." <br><br>He said that he felt Jyllands-Posten rated the feelings of its Christian readers higher than that of its Muslim readers.<br><br>But the Jyllands-Posten editor in question, Mr Kaiser, told MediaGuardian.co.uk that the case was "ridiculous to bring forward now. It has nothing to do with the Muhammad cartoons.<br><br>"In the Muhammad drawings case, we asked the illustrators to do it. I did not ask for these cartoons. That's the difference," he said.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>More<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1703500,00.html">media.guardian.co.uk/site...00,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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