If I’m wrong on a certain issue than I’m wrong.
Friday evening, I decided to post the political cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.
It didn’t take long until I received some angry private emails or comment.
Many would say - Hey? CNN and CBC refused to air the cartoon so why are you doing it?
I didn’t blame CNN and CBC for not showing the pictures because their reporters would be in danger in the Middle East.
Hey? I’m a blogger and I’m in the middle of New Brunswick, Canada.
So therefore I’m safe and I believe these demonstrators are just extremists who doesn't have nothing else better to do.
You know people like myself who blogs all day and this site is to debate issues.
I wanted to debate the issue and that’s the way it was going to be.
Last evening, I couldn’t have access to my blog.
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As a matter of fact? I couldn’t access any blogs???
What happen? Did the main blog in the U.S.A. got attack???
I received a few emails telling me that my blog was out of commission.
I said to myself – Did I crossed the line? Did someone sabotage my blog site?
I must admit that I was concern.
Next on the list was ATV News!
Their top story was hundreds of Muslims protesting in Halifax.
I said to myself - They’re protesting here in Canada now??? That’s it!!! This is too close to home!!!
I quickly deleted the blog from the website!
I could acess the template and not the front blog. It was strange.
I told this story to someone today and he said - You mean those people have more power than Rogers or the Irvings?....lol…
I found that line just too funny! You'll never see me delete a blog about these two giants!...lol
Seriously? It’s their religion and I will accept their anger towards this issue.
If Anyone was offended by the picture of the Prophet Mohammed that I posted for 24 hours?
I apologizes!!!!
62 comments:
Charlie some people have to much time on their hands. You site is accesible again..........Couldn't understand why yesterday we couldn't get in your blog.......Keep on writing.......I salute you, and all the poor people out there trying to survive . I also would like to comment on all the soup kitchen in the province of New Brunswick...I praise people wanting to help the needy and poor.......Karm Bourgeois
You should have let this matter rest. Now given your utter immaturity you write another blog which shows further ignorance on your part.
My God? The word stupid is popular in this blog. Anyway? I apologized and if you don't like it? Don't bother coming back!!!..ya hear....
so when someone makes a comical poster of our god , or any of his ministers we should ask for apologies how about the time the us team walk more like stomp on our flag we did not do anything but if it happen to someone else we are all up in the air man i do not understand our Canadian mentality
This is where the problem lies. Take a look at 3:17 PM rude comment. The mentality is not open minded.
It's unsulting and unfair to the people < like myself > who wants to know.
He speaks of peace?
Yeah right!!!!
You can read the anger in his words.
Hey? Maybe he/she can calm dwon and explain a little about their religion?
If they wish to be respected and listen to?
They must write with an open mind.
Enough said!
no ADHD excuse here. I'm just stating facts. Just explain your religion in a nice way and put the anger on one side for a momment.
The problem is simply your 'prelude' to your apology. You don't simply say 'I'm sorry', you talk about how your website 'may' have been tampered with, so in essence you were 'forced' to apologize. In other words, it's an insincere apology (just saying "I'm sorry" is typically how people apologize)
If I drew a cartoon of Jesus having gay sex with God, wouldn't that offend christians? Some people would just say 'ha ha, it's just a joke, can't you take a joke?' There are certain things that religious people take very seriously, and it differs from religion to religion. If I drew a cartoon showing God talking to Jesus and saying "I told you to be home at ten, who do you think you are?" or something like that, then there are probably very few who would be offended, because christianity has no problem with SOME depictions of their messiah.
Likewise, fortunately there aren't many asians or they have a sense a humour or "The Happy Buddha" restaurant in St. John might be an object of complaints. Can you imagine "The Giggly Christ" restaurant?
In Islam it is much like the hebraic testament where divinity is not meant to be recreated, because this makes it seem like we make God in our image. As it says in the OT, it is to die to look on the face of God. That is why middle eastern art does not have any human attributes. In fact they don't have any attributes, they are 'just' designs.
This is why it is offensive, you are basically spitting in a muslims face with this. You wouldn't do it to a christian, why would you do it to a muslim, they never did anything to you. So an apology doesn't need caveats, it just needs 'i'm sorry'. Your apology sounded more like "Well, I stole your television, then the police caught me, arrested me, then brought me back here...so here's your television, please accept my apology."
Thank you very much for the educated comment. Now that wasn't a difficult task to do was it? Merci Beaucoup!
Education is the key.
Just like any other issues.
To all the power mongers of theuniverse: bugger off!!!!!!!! the only difference between the bully in the schoolyard and the bully in the pulpit is the size of the person being bullied.
take your threats of violence and shove them, sideways. free speech is something you have to learn to live with, or the whole world dies!!! please tell me and the world how you can differentiate between censorship and "socially correct"?
any time any person or group threatens or applies violence because of someone saying something, the world moves closer to the brink of destruction. history is littered with the corpses of societies and groups that believe that they have the right to force others to their way of thinking. sooner or later they run into someone who says go away, and makes it stick.
the time is here again for all of us to suggest that the "extreme" elements of the religion that is making all the noise be dealt with by the "moderate and peaceloving" majority of that religion. if those purported tolerant members do not do anything public to curb the extreme element, then the extreme element is in fact the dominating power and interpretation of the religion.
therefore, we are heading to a fight against bullies and intolerance which will destroy the world as we know t. we may not even survive as a species this time around.
so charles, publish the cartoons again, and let them stew in their own juices. if they do not like it, too bad!! deal with it!!
keep up the good work.
david in mexico
Keep the blog and information coming. Thanks for this site.
I would love to know where's Spinks when you need him????...lol
I would blog a story and he would take over.
He's not the same Spinks.
I sure would be interested in his views on this issue?
Maybe not?...lol
I agree...saying your sorry because you thought your blog may have been tampered with is the worst kind of apology. Why not just pull the item without saying anything about it? How would you feel if someone did that about your own religion? Next time just pull the article and let it drop.
If one reads your blogs then sentence of sentence it says please give me your sympathy. Constant self-pity. But you yourself continue to throw crap at others who try to sympathize with you. Those who are telling you that you are doing great cannot be your friends. They are telling you to persist in your stupidity so that you amount to nothing.
Are you a security risk? Indeed. You are obnoxious and unpredictable. You have repeatedly said that you like brawls. Now is brawl not violence. They must keep morons like you away from the legislature and other ordinary people.
Now you are attacking other people’s belief system. Would you get any more stupid and danger to others? People start avoiding you and then you complain. Let us face it that you are a moron and some insist that you remain one and you like that because you think they agree with you.
Think again.
I just added the blog story to make it more interesting.
If they don't accept an apology?
This means they cannot be reason with.
As for the last comment?
There we go again with the insults again?
Try to education the public then to insult them.
To 9:49 AM??? That's a very good point. Why not write comments like that one? Why lower ourselves to insults and hate?
This is what this blog is all about?
Debate the issue.
You are beyond education. You have been repeatedly told by different people that your apology is no apology. What you are saying is ‘I apologize for something that I am going to do it again right away’ or ‘I apologize but I did nothing wrong’ ‘I apologize because I am caught red-handed and have no choice’. Your real apology would have been to put the matter to rest and not bring it up again and let the bigots come out of woodworks or as far as Maxico to spew their poison. That is no apology that is fuelling the fire. If you cannot understand something simple like that then you are beyond education.
9:49 right on. It is the extremists who are the problem and they exist in every religion and every region of the globe.
I did apologized and I removed the cartoon once I was told all the details. At first? I believe it was only extremists but once I saw them protest in Halifax? I knew this was serios so I remove the picture. I could have kept it there but I didn't. I can truly understand what the publisher are going through because an apology is not enough. I guess all they want is blood? Shame...
Do not be stupid again. Your apology is no apology. It is an apology with a caveat. How more dum will you get.
Charlie:
I think 10:34 is merely trying to egg you on. Ping him and see if he is even blogging from Canada.
He is attempting to stir the pot by attacking you.
Don't bite!
Charles is egging on 'anonymous' just as much as the other way around, just leave it drop or talk about the issues.
Of course people are 'protesting', because muslims have become the new 'blacks' or 'jews'. They are held in suspicion wherever they go, ridiculed, and even arrested. Now, the 'media' is going out of its way to ridicule the most sacred things in their religion. Again, how often have you seen pictures of Jesus in the Irving papers?
So now you just make it WORSE by saying you sympathize with the publishers, the very people who started this whole thing in the first place. So clearly you are part of the problem, how can you possibly dare to criticize protestors in Halifax when protesting is WHAT YOU DO! I'm surprised that you aren't blogging WITH the protestors against this media manipulation, why is it all of a sudden OK for media to be used in a harmful way as long as you have no problems with it? Go ask a muslim group how often their articles get printed in newspapers in Denmark, or anywhere else.
So talk is cheap. Muslims all over the world have had their homelands bombed, relatives massacred, their religion reviled and ridiculed. They get almost NO press unless its to show their violence or in this case, to ridicule what they hold most sacred.
And there are even those in the population who are most disenfranchised SIDING with the media and govenrment manipulators. We live in a country that has had many arrests just on the basis of a muslim being in the wrong place at the wrong time, jailed without charges, sent to the middle east for torture. We even see comments like the above faulting muslims for 'not doing more' to quiet extremists, even though practically every muslim homeland is being attacked by the americans and british. They aren't 'extremists', they are defenders. If a foreign country came in and bombed Canada woulnd't YOU fight for it? Any way you could? I sure as hell would.
So at least don't throw fuel on the fire.
good point....
So people who hide behind masks and behead innocent people on film in the name of Islam and publish on Al Jazeera are DEFENDERS?
I think not!
If you put people in a postion that they have nothing to lose then they will do all kinds of things including giving their lives. It is called desperation. They have to defend against imperial aggression.
It is sad that this man who complains about human rights has no respect for others' rights. He sympathizes with the publishers of Newspaper. Will he get anymore infuriating. Smart thing was to drop the matter. But smart is one attribute he does not have. He is giving bigots a chance to spew their poison.
You're placing words in my mouh. All I wish to do debate the issue and even myself can be educated on this subject.
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(CNN) -- Tens of thousands of Muslims around the world have staged new rounds of protests -- some resulting in deaths -- over published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
Afghan police fired Monday on about 2,000 protesters who tried to enter Bagram Airbase, a U.S. base north of Kabul, The Associated Press reported.
Two protesters were killed and 13 others injured, Kabir Ahmed, the local government chief, was quoted as saying. Eight of those injured were police, he said.
In the Afghan city of Mihtarlam, two protesters were killed and three others injured -- including two police -- when police fired on a crowd after a man fired shots and others threw stones and knives, Interior Ministry spokesman Dad Mohammed Rasa told AP. (Watch the stones fly and police batons swing -- 2:25)
In Indonesia, video from a demonstration outside a U.S. consulate showed a protester with a bloody shirt sitting on the ground next to police.
Islam forbids depictions of Mohammed. Many Muslims are furious at the drawings themselves, one of which shows the religious figure wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.
And in the east African nation of Somalia, police fired in the air Monday to disperse stone-throwing protesters, triggering a stampede in which a teenager died, according to The Associated Press. (Full story)
The protests came as Iran announced it had cut off all trade ties with Denmark.
A report on the state-run news agency IRNA said Iranian Commerce Minister Massoud Mirkazemi stopped trade with Denmark as the government's response to the cartoons.
It said that while trade has been stopped, certain machinery and medicine will be allowed in for another three months.
In Tehran, demonstrators protested outside the Danish Consulate and the Austrian Embassy. Austria is currently serving as president of the European Union. Reuters reported that about 200 people threw fire bombs and rocks. (Full story)
Meanwhile in Paris, France Soir -- a newspaper that published the cartoons of Mohammed -- was evacuated for nearly three hours Monday after receiving a bomb threat.
Police and bomb squads searched the premises and found no cause for concern.
The paper's secretarial office said someone called at 12:50 p.m. (6:50 a.m. ET) saying there was a bomb in the building. All 120 people were evacuated immediately.
Also Monday, Lebanon apologized to Denmark for a protest Sunday in which the building housing the Danish Consulate was torched. The protest was planned in advance and well publicized, but Lebanese security still took hours to bring it under control. (Watch the fiery destruction and police confrontation -- 2:48)
Officials on the scene Monday found that the consulate had reinforced its doors, so the rioters had not managed to destroy the consulate itself, which was on the fourth floor of the 10-story building.
Other protests Monday took place in Amman, Tel Aviv, Gaza, and Kut, a city in southern Iraq where about 5,000 people congregated, burned flags and burned an effigy of the Danish prime minister.
In Indian-controlled Kashmir, schools and businesses closed in protest over the drawings. Some demonstrators set flags on fire and threw rocks at passing cars. And in the Indian capital of New Delhi, police fired tear gas and water canons to try to break up one protest.
The controversy began in September, when 12 drawings of the Muslim prophet were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The paper said it had asked cartoonists to draw the pictures because the media was censoring itself over Muslim issues.
In January, a Norwegian newspaper reprinted the drawings.
Some other European papers later published some of the cartoons, as a way of covering the controversy and also, some papers said, as a matter of freedom of expression.
Two New Zealand newspapers also published the cartoons last weekend, prompting street protests in the city of Auckland and condemnation from the New Zealand government.
CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of respect for Islam.
Two small weekly Jordanian newspapers recently reprinted the cartoons and, according to Jordan's Petra News Agency, arrest warrants were issued for the editors-in-chief of those papers.
World leaders and some Muslim religious officials have called on members of the faith to use only peaceful forms of protest.
Over the weekend, protesters torched embassies of Denmark and Norway in Damascus and the Danish Consulate in Beirut. No staff were hurt, but buildings were damaged or destroyed.
The protests in Beirut soon escalated into fighting between Muslims and Christians. (Watch as protesters battle security forces in Lebanon -- 2:08)
Iraq's transport ministry also said it was severing ties with the Danish and Norwegian governments, a move that includes terminating all contracts with companies based in those countries.
Meanwhile, London police were under pressure to arrest Muslim protesters who carried signs threatening death and terrorist attacks at a demonstration over the cartoons on Friday. (Full story)
The Danish government has tried to get out the message that it does not control what is in newspapers and that Danish courts will determine whether the newspaper that originally published the cartoons, Jyllands-Posten, is guilty of blasphemy. The government has also expressed apologies for the offending drawings. (Danes feel threatened)
Jyllands-Posten has apologized, saying it did not mean to offend Muslims and that the drawings had to be understood in their original contexts.
The paper's cultural editor, Flemming Rose, said the uproar came after "radical imams from Denmark traveled to the Middle East, deliberately lying about these cartoons," and saying that the paper is owned by the government and is preparing a new translation of the Koran "censoring the word of 'Allah,' which is a grave sin according to Islam."
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Coward. Why did you remove hate propanda comment. That is what you are doing and asking others to participate. You had no credibility and now you have dealt yourself another blow.
it was a short note and it had the word BS. < Do I have to spell it? >
Credibility????
I lost that a long time ago....
Why don't you just ignore this blog?
There's millions of other blogs out there!!!
Lets be nice....
Here; your smart comment but notice I change the word.
Idiotic. That is what it is. What you are doing is hate propaganda and allow others to participate. You removed the blog and then came with this b???s???.
You have used BS word in your blogs fully spelled out. It gets bad when someone else uses it to describe your stupid blogs.
well let all be true Canadians let turn around and run away and hide ... instead of expressing our opinions of different things imagine it might not be politically correct to do so but it is ok when other countries insult us ,shoot at us (in socall friendly fire ) just to turn our back and us say soory that we are there
No one bothers Canadians internationally. I do not know what you are talking about. Canada did the smart thing and did not participate in illegal war against Iraq. You show Maple leaf and people leave you alone. Have you ever left NB and travelled internationally.
Charlie:
Is that a lit fuse or an Afghany Hooter in your hand?? LOL
If you would have left your hole in NB and travelled the world then you will not be so rude.
Charlie:
Got the idea of hate. You have let loose lowest of the lowest to make this kind of brainless comments.
Those protests are by far more moderate than the death sentence on Salmon Rushdie. You'll notice the only place where any violence was made (and 'threats' of violence are not violence) were in Afghanistan. It is useful to know that in Afghanistan there are protests and deaths DAILY, because we are an occupying force and the afghanis don't want us there any more than Iraqi's.
It's also informative to remember that more canadians have died at the hands of americans than have by middle easterns.
Perhaps we should turn Afghanistan back over to the Talibananas so they can once again force the people in to the sports stadiums where they can watch their family members having their hands and feet cut off. Their eyes poked out! Stonings and beheadings at the whim of some Iman who thinks he has a direct line to Allah!
Charlie:
You may be ignorant but no one can accuse you of being uncivilized! LOL!
To those who protest the Western ways but enjoy its many freedoms I ask this question.
Why are you here?????????????
Same questions can be asked from you. What the hell Americans and other Westerns are doing in Asia and Africa-especially killing people there. What is the difference between killing people in rudimentary way or using modern westeran weapons killing by the hundereds and in some cases thousands, women, old, young and children in a swoop.
What is the difference between a masked man killing someone or these pilotless planes killing people by the hundreds. The idea is that we must learn to live in peace. No religion teaches violence as such only political interpretion do. In case of America and other powerful nations they are killing simply because they have the power to do so.It is called sensless killing.
9:14
The only mass killings I see are Suicide bombers killing their own people. If you want to avoid the collateral damage of air strikes etc., then turn in the terrorists!
Drop the guns and take a VOTE!
Then the so called Infadel invaders will go home!
Only then will they know for sure that the people want to be ruled by Mullas who butcher and stone people in the name of God.
I am sorry to say that you are influenced by Bush war propaganda. Bush Administration is responsible for may be 100 thousands Iraqis's death. You may not hear about it in western media which is busy demonizing Islam.
As someone said at Ms. King's funeral there were no weapons of mass-destruction just weapons of misdirection. If America was not powerful nation Bush would have been tried for war crimes and genocide.
No religion teaches violence. It is the misguided interpretation. I do not think Islam asks for suicide. Those are acts of desperations. When you have nothing to lose - your parents killed, sibblings are killed and other loved ones are killed then people are doing it for revenge as they have no one to turn to.
Iraq war is illegal and atrocious. It is genocide. Many American will tell you that.
3:12
Highjacking and flying fully loaded jetliners with innocent people of all nationalities into the World Trade Center, Pentagon etc was also atrocious and illegal.
Killing over 3,000 people of all nationalities, I might add.
Those highjackers were sons of wealthy Saudies. Highly educated and brainwashed. They were cold calculating terrorists!
I saw no sign of hopelessness or desperation on their cold calculating faces as they made their way through the various surveillance systems.
I find it hard to believe that any God would think such evil persons worthy of being rewarded with 70 Virgins in the life beyond.
This whole battle is about good verses evil. I do not believe for 1 minute that those Mullas that preach hate in the madrasus schools are in it for the good of the faith or the people. They are in it for the power!
Well if they want the power then they should tell everyone to drop their weapons and take a vote! Hamas has succeeded in taking power democratically! Now we will see just what they are made of. I think they will find governing a whole lot harder than pointing a gun! It will also be interesting to see if they allow the people a chance to vote them out if they don't deliver on good government! My bets are they won't!
Attacking World Trade Centre was wrong and evil. Innocent people were killed and anytime annocent people are killed in this manner nothing is there to justify it. These were misled people and has nothing to do with their faith. These are fanatics. They had as much justification as the fellow who blew up a building in US, I believe in Atlanta, and killed innocent people and children.
This virgin thing is a bull to demonize Islam. There is nothing in Quran or other authentic Islamic books.
However, people whose homeland is attacked for no reason killing tens of thousands of people is equally wrong and evil.
Killing is wrong under any religion and civilization. Suicide stuff in the middle east is mostly desperation. It does not make it right but that is the root cause.
To invade a country for their oil is equally wrong and evil. UN never approved this aggression hence an illegal war.
7:10
I agree with you that one should not invade a country for it's oil.
As Canadians we are next! LOL.
" Suicide Stuff " Sorry. I cannot accept that excuse.
These people are brainwashed. Educated sickos are highjacking and using your religion to convince innocent uneducated, poverty stricken people to sacrifice their lives on the altar of Islam. Saddam Insane offered compensation of $25,000.oo U.S. (Why U.S.currency?) to families whose loved ones sacrificed their lives in a fruitless effort to chase out the Infadels.
Why can't everyone just learn to co-exist!
As for oil. At 60 to 70 $$/ barrel your people should be awash in wealth. But what do you use it for?
Health care?
Infrastructure?
Education?
Food?
No! You use it to buy weapons! You use it to oppress the very people you claim to want to help.
The only place where you can practice Islam in its original peacefull ways is in the very democratically elected countries that you are ranting and raving about and burning their embassies!
I can see you fuming on the other side of this screen. However. Understand this! I am in no way angry at you. In fact I pitty you. I myself was born a Roman Catholic. I am a member of the Knights of Columbus. A Muslem built my first new home! I do no harm and help my neighbour wherever possible and within reason. I am supposed to defend the priesthood but find it ever more difficult to do so in the face of sexual predators that stock the clergy. Am I dissapointed and discouraged that the papacy does not confront, condemn and excommunicate and fail to accept responsibility for such behaviours? You bet!
However. Every day I get up and do not dwell on the wrongs of the past for every day brings new hope and a chance to better the community, the city, the province and the country in which I live. That country is Canada! If you live here then do the same! If not then take your family back to the Hell Hole you came from because you detract from the peacefull, multicultural society that we are trying to build within our borders.
Peace to you
And GOD (Yours and Mine) BLESS!
Can you imagine if I would have decided to keep the picture in this blog? I believe the debate is going good. I guess the talk shows don't the States are going nuts???
Lots of action on this issue on P.E.I. and Nova Scotia.
Charlie:
Today in Pakistan a suicide bomber killed more of their own!
Shia against Sunni! Why may you ask?
Because there was a feud centuries ago over who should succeed the previous head of their religion.
This is definitely a battle of good over evil. It's like the Sectarian violence that held Ireland in its grip for years. Religion plays no part in it except in the evil minds who would bend and twist it to further their cause.
Just for the record? That picture wasn't taken with my camera. Someone took it the same evening I wrote the blog and I decided to use it. What's with the word stupid anyway???
That is a menacing picture. It does not matter whose camera was used. If you apologize you do not post a menacing picture,cigarette in hand and looking idiotic. Why there has to be a picture to start with.
8:21
You can't compare Toronto to Iraq.
We get to vote for our dictators and if we don't like them! We turf them.
In Canada we have agencies to care for those less fortunate not always to everyones satisfaction but we are working on it, and our religious leaders do not preach violence from the pulpit.
As for the taking of resources We are paying top dollar. If the money is not getting to the people then whose fault is that!
Just this week in Irag or Afgahnistan a government minister and his son were caught bilking the ministry of oil by creating a fictious malitia to protect the pipelines. The money was paid but no protection was forthcoming.
The Western world is trying to bring the Middle East into the 21st Century with all it has to offer but you Emams are keeping the people in the stone age.
There is an old saying "If you aren't part of the solution then you are part of the Problem"
As for me wanting to send people back. I do not want to send anyone back! But if they can't come and leave their crap behind then by all means! They have that option. It's their choice. We won't gun them down on the way out. That my friend is what makes us different. We have a choice here in Canada.
You don't build a free, tolerant society by importing others troubles.
Come by all means but be prepared to contribute not reconstruct what you risked life and limb to escape!
"The Western world is trying to bring the Middle East into the 21st Century with all it has to offer.." Bull and more bull.
Iraq has been reverted to stone age. No electricity, no proper hospital, no proper schooling, no food on table. Thanks to invasion that brought these miseries.
Yeah, that is what you call democracy for Iraq. Do not forget 10's of thousands children, women and elderly killed.
Do not try to be holier than thou. We all know how black people were treated and or being treated. Do not forget how natives were treated and are being treated. A genocide was carried out against natives not much different than what is being done in Iraq. Shame.
Emam. My foot. I am not even religious but I know atrocity when I see one.
Leave the hole in NB and do some travelling and your eyes may be opened.
Thanks to idiotic Leblanc that bigots are coming out of woodwork. He is an a**.
Awwwwwww Shucks Charlie.
Move it to the top.
I am not done with this guy yet!
Blacks! Yea your right. That explains why Condolesa Wright is Bush's right hand Girl. She is a downtrodden slave.
Sorry about the spelling. I meant YOUR not YOU Emams!
You say Iraq has reverted to the stone age. Tell the Terrorists to stop sending suicide bombers into the hospitals. Stop blowing up pipelines and powerplants. Stop blowing up the markets.
10's of thousands of children, men and women? I think you exagerate of late. There has been some innocent lives lost recently but only because Terrorists hide amongst the innocent. The only people killing by the hundreds are the suicide bombers! Not many of them wearing army uniforms. Also terrorists disguised as police.
You speak of natives and blacks. You will note your use of the past tense. As in WERE. I am not interested in the past and that is where your problem lies! Move on and give your head a rest. It's a big beautiful country we live in if you will only open your eyes and move beyond the past.
By the way. Charlie only has 2 biggot buddies and we know who they are don't we Charlie!
Charlie. That is the difference in perception. I see a poor blogger relaxing with a cigarette after a hard day on the keyboard and our visitor sees a menacing infadel.
He is right though! All that second hand cigarette smoke could kill a person! LOL!
Did you know that they're trying to stop people debating the issue on the information Highway? No...there's three bigots- Matthew, Jim and moi!!...lol...
At least this terrorist don't hide behind an Anonymous name. Come on coward??? Come out in the open. Just a coward!!!! At least the Government knows that I'm a terrorist with my real name!!! Hey? Maybe that's the reason that I'm labelled as a security risk???
You are a security risk because you are an idiot. You were politely told you were wrong but you refused to give unconditioal apology and came up with another stupid blog. If you would have just stayed away then that would have meant you have some common sense but common sense is something you do not have. If you were smart then you would have respected others and refrained from it but you are an idiot and cannot help it. No one can help you. You are beyond help. A complete moron.
On top of that you are calling peace loving citizens terrorists. Would you get any more stupid.
Minorities like Chinese and Japanese tried to help you and you crapped all over them too.
Are you the only person who has rights and you are free to walk all over other people. Learn to respect others and they may respect you too. Looks it is too late for you.
test
May be. Just may be this will teach you something:
Letter in Daily Gleaner, February 10, 2006
Pain of Muslim brothers is shared by Christian
As a Christian I am often ashamed and angered by the way my religion is portrayed by both the media and self appointed authorities, such as Pat Robertson.
I, too, share the pain of my Muslim brothers and sisters. During his lifetime, the Prophet Mohammed ascended into heaven where he prayed with Jesus.
Today, I raise my voice with yours to pray for peace and forgiveness.
On behalf of a society which ignores the cries of starving children while lending their voice to intolerance, I apologize.
On behalf of a society that defends the right to promote prejudice while millions die to speak their opinion, I apologize.
On behalf of a society which wages war without discrimination to uphold the rights they are violating and abusing, I apologize.
A society wherein nothing is sacred, with no respect for life or natural law, becomes a slave to its own shame. This crippling shame impairs our judgment, makes us defensive and disrespectful.
On behalf of my nation and yours, for all people, I am sorry.
Darcie Dunbar
Fredericton
I met this woman and she's a sweetheart. But if I knew for a certain fact that it was indeed Muslims who wrote those bad comments of me? I wouldn't hesitate for one second in pasting the political certoon in this blog. But I can't be certain of the individual religion.
What difference it makes who posts those remarks. A smart person admits his blunder and moves on. You continue like a broken record and give apology with caveat. If you care for other's rights then you would have avoided this whole thing. But you think you are the only one who has rights. You have serious problems.
I believe it's very bad for a group of people coming in here and call other people names.
I believe that we can debate the issue but is you people don't wish to debate then many will not know what's going on?
I learned a lot since the cartoon came out.
I do not think you learned anything. If you would have learned then you would have not gone for a second blog. Always remember if you want your rights to be respected then you have no choice but respect others' rights.
So you're beating up on Charles for posting the cartoons, yet there is an east coast blog that still has them up and not a peep??
Get a life. Charles took them down when he realized the full extent of the anger they caused. Why not go beat up on this guy??
http://eastcoastwisdom.blogspot.com/
Daily Gleaner | Readers' Forum
As published on page D9 on February 11, 2006
Your view | Letters to the editor
Cartoon has little to do with free speech
I am appalled by recent world events surrounding the publication of "cartoons" offensive to the world's Muslim population - and now it has come to Canada.
I thought we had more sense.
It seems a N.S. University professor also wants to stir up some trouble and insult a few more people - all in the name of free speech.
Whatever happened to common courtesy and respect for other beliefs and cultures?
The people who published these cartoons did so expressly knowing they would insult, incense and inflame the Arab world. Apparently, their religion prohibits any drawing of their prophet Muhammad - so why can't we respect their beliefs, even if they are not our own?
What does this have to do with free speech? I think nothing.
Are these same newspapers and publishers willing to belittle well-loved, popular and honoured members of their society? In the U.S., would a paper publish a cartoon disrespectful to Martin Luther King?
Would Italians publish something disrespectful to the Pope?
I would hope the answer is unequivocally "no."
Already people have died in the Middle East and there has been rioting and burning of embassies.
I can't even imagine the pain and anger I would feel if I had a son or daughter killed in a riot over a cartoon expressly commissioned by someone to publish with the sole intent of angering and inciting Muslims.
Where is it going to stop? Is even one life worth it?
I thought Canada of all places - the land of immigrants - would be immune to this stupidity.
On behalf of my family and myself, our sincere apologies to those of the Muslim faith for the acts of those stupid people.
Frances Beverley
Tracy, N.B.
I believe they're just troublemakers wish to cause sh@t!!!! But what can you do??? I will admit they got to me!!! I almost posted the cartoon again but I backed off. Let them debate the issue in here but I will have no new blogs on this issue. Enough said!!!!!
Troublemakers are the ones who first printed the cartoon and then some idiots followed the suit. One must never make fun of anybody's religion. It is too emotional.
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