Geert de Wilders, Dutch MP, Announces He Will Show Cartoons of Muslim Prophet

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Wilders said he would show the cartoons during television airtime reserved for political parties, in a move likely to offend Muslims since Islamic tradition holds that any physical depiction of the Prophet Muhammad is blasphemous.
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Wilders, whose Freedom Party holds 12 of the 150 seats in Parliament's lower house, told The Associated Press he wants to air cartoons from the Texas competition to support people "who use the pen and not the sword."
"If we say, `it might be offensive, so let's not do it,' then we send a signal to the people who wanted to get into the event in Texas ... and all their followers that it works," he said. "That we can be intimidated, that we get frightened."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_NETHERLANDS_WILDERS_MUHAMMAD_CARTOONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-06-03-10-44-12

Jun 3, 11:48 AM EDT
DUTCH FIREBRAND VOWS TO SHOW MUHAMMAD CARTOONS ON TV
BY MIKE CORDER
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Iranian Sentenced To Death For Facebook Post "Insulting the Prophet Mohammed"

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A blogger found guilty of insulting the Prophet Mohammad in his postings on Facebook has been sentenced to death. An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the blogger, Soheil Arabi, will be able to appeal the decision until September 20, 2014.
Agents from the Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Sarallah Base arrested Soheil Arabi, 30, and his wife in November 2013. Arabi’s wife was released a few hours later, but he was kept in solitary confinement for two months inside IRGC’s Ward 2-A at Evin Prison, before he was transferred to Evin’s General Ward 350. Branch 76 of the Tehran Criminal Court, under Judge Khorasani, found Arabi guilty of “sabb al-nabi” (insulting the Prophet), on August 30, 2014.
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“Article 262 of the Islamic Penal Code states that if a person insults the Prophet of Islam, his punishment is death. But in Article 264, it explicitly says that if a suspect merely claims in court that he said the insulting words in anger, in quoting someone, or by mistake, his death sentence will be converted to 74 lashes. I would like to emphasize that if only the suspect claims this, he will not be eligible for death, and there is no need to even prove his claim,” added the source.
“Unfortunately, despite this Article and the explanations provided, the judges issued the death sentence. They didn’t even take any notice of Soheil’s statements in court in which he repeated several times that he wrote the posts under poor [psychological] conditions, and that he is remorseful. Three of the judges ruled for the death sentence, and two ruled for imprisonment,” said the source.

http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/09/death-sentence-facebook/

Death Sentence for “Insulting the Prophet” on Facebook
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Muslims Protest French Cartoons

The issue of apologizing to Muslims for the latest video ridiculing Mohammed came up at an event for the Columbia University School of Journalism Centennial on September 19, 2012 in Boston. Some US journalists say that the reason for the attacks on US Embassies and Consulates in Libya and Egypt were caused by that video. I asked one Columbia Journalism professor what he thought about the US State Department apologizing for that video. He thought it was appropriate because some people were offended by the video. I suggested that there was no reason for apologizing, since it is US law and culture to permit and to defend ridicule of religion. I asked why the diplomats did not uphold their oaths of office to protect and to defend the US Constitution which permits such expression. He said it was because there were some people who were offended by the expression. I did not suggest that Muslim diplomats should apologize to US citizens who are offended by the attacks based on what is legitimate expression. I am offended by their attacks on free expression protected by the First Amendment. Why are offended Muslims more important than offended American citizens? Does it have anything to do with violence, the threat of violence and the fear of violence by spineless US officials? Does it have anything to do with the efforts to legitimize Sharia law in the US which diminishes if not eliminates First Amendment protections?

[From article]
At the demonstration in Lebanon, Nabil Kaouk, deputy chief of Hezbollah's Executive Council, warned the United States and France not to anger Muslims.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120920/DA1D624O0.html

New French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions
AP
Sep 19, 8:19 PM (ET)
By LORI HINNANT and JAMEY KEATEN

Detailed Study Of Koran by Non Muslim

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/16/a-taste-of-islam-an-interview-with-bill-warner/

A Taste of Islam: An Interview with Bill Warner
Posted by Mark Tapson
Jan 16th, 2012

Mohammed Uncovered

http://bigpeace.com/dwest/2011/03/30/wilders-its-time-to-unmask-mohammed/

Wilders: ‘It’s Time to Unmask Mohammed’
Posted by Diana West
Mar 30th 2011 at 1:46 pm
BigPeace.com

Israel is Victm of Religious Hatred

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"Islam -- as currently interpreted and practiced -- cannot accept a Jewish state of any size in its midst. Unless Muslims come to terms with their holy writings vis-à-vis Jews, Judaism, and Israel and go through some sort of "reformation," it will be unlikely that true peace will ever come to the Middle East. In the meantime, unless Islam reforms, Israel should accept the fact that the Muslims will never accept Israel as a permanent fact in the Middle East."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/why_islam_will_never_accept_th.html

June 30, 2010

Why Islam Will Never Accept the State of Israel

By Steven Simpson
American Thinker

Yale Press Censors Cartoon Book

Yale Press Censors Cartoon Book


Fearing violence the Yale University Press removed cartoons about the prophet Mohammad.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08162009/postopinion/editorials/censorship_at_yale_184846.htm

CENSORSHIP AT YALE
Editorial
New York Post
Posted: 3:46 am
August 16, 2009