In a virulent sermon from the pulpit of his mosque in the Shiite Kadhimiya neighborhood of Baghdad, Sheikh Hazem al-Aaraji described the cartoons as an attack on Islam.
"They want to disfigure Islam and this we cannot accept. These cartoons directly attack the personality of the messenger of God. We say to them: they cannot attack Mohammed, nor any of the prophets," thundered the preacher, who is a follower of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
I thought that this was just those firebrand Muslim preachers railing against something happening in the Western world that they don't like (which seems to be a lot.) But this is pretty offensive thing that this Danish newspaper brought out. It is I guess implying that Mohammed is a suicide bomber. I googled the pic and found it at this site.
This kind of thing is pretty much like having a cartoon of Jesus sitting in the electric chair in the Weekly Standard. I mean this cartoon could probably get some cash from the National Endowment for the Arts but this Danish newspaper needs to have some editorial oversite when it comes to this kind of thing.
I am all for free speech but this joins the ranks of Piss Christ as things that are rightly viewed as offensive to believers. And people wonder why the Muslim World has such hatred for the Western World.
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