Michelle Malkin notes that Neander News has probably uncovered the source of one of the fake cartoons inserted by Danish Muslims into the portfolio of Jyllands-Posten cartoons that have been causing such an uproar in the Muslim umma.
Ready for this?
It's an AP photo taken at a French pig squealing contest last August!
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Added: The Danish Press is all over the 'faked cartoons' story. If it turns out that the Danish imams themselves -- who whipped up the Middle Eastern outrage over the Danish cartoons -- were the ones who crafted the fake depictions of Mohammed, will radical Islamists hold their Danish bretheren accountable and charge them with blasphemy ... which may not even be a big deal after all? Don't hold your breath.
Also added: courtesy of Donald Sensing, here is an interesting note from Egyptian bloggers about the Mohammed cartoons:
Freedom For Egyptians reminded me why the cartoons looked so familiar to me: they were actually printed in the Egyptian Newspaper Al Fagr back in October 2005. I repeat, October 2005, during Ramadan, for all the egyptian muslim population to see, and not a single squeak of outrage was present. Al Fagr isn’t a small newspaper either: it has respectable circulation in Egypt, since it’s helmed by known Journalist Adel Hamoudah. Looking around in my house I found the copy of the newspaper, so I decided to scan it and present to all of you to see.
I don't think we need any more proof that the Muslim "outrage" over the cartoons was wholly manufactured by threatened Middle Eastern governments.
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Meanwhile, the Washington Times is reporting that the coalition government of Lebanon is openly accusing Syria of deliberately enticing its people to join in the cartoon riots. If this allegation is true, it would be a textbook example of the dangers of totalitarian states, predicated on the fact that such states, particularly those controlled by religious fanatics, willfully contribute to the ignorance of their own people through the restriction of information, and then exploit that ignorance in order to coerce their citizens into performing acts of evil.
And blogger Ed Driscoll recalls a pithy observation made by the epitome of pith, Mark Steyn:
These days, whenever something goofy turns up on the news, chances are it involves a fellow called Mohammed. A plane flies into the World Trade Centre? Mohammed Atta. A gunman shoots up the El Al counter at Los Angeles airport? Hesham Mohamed Hedayet. A sniper starts killing petrol station customers around Washington, DC? John Allen Muhammed. A guy fatally stabs a Dutch movie director? Mohammed Bouyeri. A terrorist slaughters dozens in Bali? Noordin Mohamed. A gang-rapist in Sydney? Mohammed Skaf.
Ouch.
Finally, a confirmation that the murder of a Roman Catholic priest in Turkey during Sunday Mass was in fact perpetrated by a Muslim who was irate over the Danish cartoons. Michelle Malkin has more on the priest, Father Andrea Santoro, whose life as a pastor and disciple of the Gospel should never have brought about his death at the hands of a madman.
Christianity abhors the killing of innocents. What is radical Islam teaching its followers?
UPDATE: A commenter directed me to this link, which includes more information about the suspect in Fr. Santoro's murder, a young man with connections to the Turkish Mafia and to white slavery/prostitution in Turkey. The story also notes that Fr. Santoro had spent a considerable amount of time rescuing women from the Turkish prostitution rackets.
Mick Hartley, a British blogger, refers to the fact that the late Father Andrea Santoro was in fact murdered by a prostitution racket (mafia). It appears they were using the riots as a pretext to asassinate the good priest, who had dedicated considerable energy in recent years to trying to help prostitutes brought to Turkey from former Soviet republics.
http://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2006/02/enraged_by_the_.html
Posted by: Liam | February 09, 2006 at 08:09 AM