Take THAT, you fucking blasphemous Danes! Bet you're sorry now!

[Redstone]

They're burning down Pizza Huts in Pakistan to punish you for your cartoons! That will teach you a lesson, won't it?


(And yet the rioters demand that we understand them. Afraid I can't.)

Redstone

[Ravenseye]

1. Mmmmm Pizza Hut

Sorry...couldn't resist...I know it's not the best pizza in the world but sometimes I get a hankerin for one of their greasy pan pizza's in a dark room drinking root beer from a red plastic glass filled with crushed ice...

[mitchtv]

2. Funny, before this all happened,I had a lot

of sympathy for Muslims. On this issue, however , I have nothing but contempt. I will not submit to any religion's demands.
Don't they have Dominos' to burn?

[The Stranger]

14. When I read a post like this, I cannot help but wonder about the motives

of the publishers of the cartoons. If you were to make someone look contemptible, for example, the best way to do it would be to provoke them into becoming deserving of contempt.

And it has worked so well, it simply cannot be an accident.

[mitchtv]

18. you could be right

also they are being well used by their own compadres as well. After all that's said and done , I come done on the side of free speech

[The Stranger]

19. Is free speech really at issue? There is certainly no prior restraint.

No one has claimed they could or would stop the publication of the photos. But the mass boycotts have devastated Danish businesses, and, without question, boycotts are the very essence of free speech in action.

And the rage is, I think, the result of a group that has been exploited and is now suffering insult as well as injury.

Imagine running a cartoon of a racist stereotype in the U.S. There would certainly be hell to pay.

[mitchtv]

20. I think the real issue is Submission to Islam

or not. The rage is a result of an insulting caricature of a religious figure. The people are being swept into a frenzy by religious leaders making demands that have validity only to members of their groups,Sure it is insulting, so what? newspapers are to be forbidden from publishing images of Mohammed? under pain of death? I just don't like their conclusions. Boycott Denmark all you want, violence will only be met with force. They are after all doing the holocast cartoons in Iran- have fun with it. I doubt if Isreal will bomb them.BTW I support a free independent Palestine, and US withdrawal from Iraq.I abhor all religions

[BushOut06]

3. This is something that I've never understood

When people in inner-city areas riot, they typically destroy their own businesses. I've always wondered if they really wanted to make a statement, why not go over to the "rich" areas of town and destroy THOSE businesses? Not that I advocate any sort of destruction or rioting, just an observation I've always had.

[Redstone]

4. That's because rioters are typicaly ignorant people. Not an insult, just

a statement of fact, and using "ignorant" in the dictionary definition...they just don't know nuthin.

Redstone

[BushOut06]

5. I remember the riots in St Petersburg, Fla

I was in the National Guard at the time, and we got called up to go to St Petersburg to deal with some rioting there (it was after a white policeman had run over a black man). By the time we arrived there, the rioting had pretty much quieted down. I was able to ride along with one of the police officers, who showed me where most of the damage had taken place. It was just unbelievable, what they did to their own neighborhood! I felt truly sorry for the people who had owned those businesses, who probably lived right alongside the people who were rioting.

[Redstone]

6. And if you asked EVERY SINGLE rioter "why," they'd all give the

same answer: "I dunno."

Redstone

[malachi]

7. They riot in their neighborhoods, usually poor, because the

authorities let them. I guarantee that if they moved into mid or upperclass areas there would be a pile of dead rioters.

[Redstone]

8. Well, then, they could maybe, um...NOT riot?

Save everybody (including themselves) a ton of trouble all around.

Redstone

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. Agreed. The simple reason: They'd be killed. If rioters burned Beverly

Hills, or Shaker Heights, or Grosse Pointe, or Potomac, MD, or Falls Church, VA, or the Upper East Side, or Highland Park, etc. etc. etc. they would be killed, and know it.

[IronLionZion]

9. They don't know any better?

:shrug:

Pizza Hut or cream cheese danish, it's all "the great satan" to some people.

[Redstone]

16. Yes, all the same to ignorant people. I agree.

Redstone

[GoneOffShore]

10. Any fast food outlet they burn down

Is one less.
Let them go after all of them. And then head for Wally World.

[mikeytherat]

11. They burned a KFC, too.

If they can burn a Taco Bell, they'll hit the PepsiCo Trifecta (and do the world a favor).

mikey_the_rat

[Mutley]

12. I can't say I'm sorry...

I used to wait tables at a Pizza Hut...

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Nothing Without Hope]

15. ***IMPORTANT from Octafish: the cartoons were a DELIBERATE provocation

and the US neocons were involved:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x417774
thread title (2-14-06 GD): BFEE Turd Daniel Pipes tied to DANISH CARTOONS
Comment/excerpt: Octafish, the poster, comments: “Gee. In a War on Terra, who benefits the most from an enraged and radicalized Muslim world?” Excerpt from Counterpunch article in the OP: “So, let’s look at the guy who started this whole cartoon escapade. He’s Flemming Rose, the cultural editor of the Danish newspaper. In all of the Lexis-Nexis database of stories from the American media on the Mohammed cartoons, there is absolutely no mention of the fact that Rose is a close confederate of arch-Islamophobe Daniel Pipes. Indeed, there is almost no context at all about Rose’s newspaper. On a brief mention in the Washington Post gave a hint at a fact desperately needed to understand the situation. The Post described the affair as ‘a calculated insult … by a right-wing newspaper in a country where bigotry toward the minority Muslim population is a major, if frequently unacknowledged, problem.’ … Rose came to America to commune with Pipes in 2004, and it was after that meeting the cartoon gambit materialized. “

[Redstone]

17. Oh good God, please spare me this...the Danes are racist enough

on their own; they don't need any "instructions."

It's not a fucking conspiracy. Not everything is, you know.

Redstone

[Behind the Aegis]

21. Trust me...

...there are some with their own agendas. I find it interesting how everything is so calculated now. It is as if no one, but the BFEE, are responsible for the ills of the world. Well, the BFEE and the "who know whos," rhymes with "whos."

[Behind the Aegis]

22. Damn..should be "you know whos."