It Has Reached America

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Later, panelists were cheered when they referred to Muslims as fascists and accused mainstream Muslim-American civil rights groups of being “cheerleaders for terror.”
“I put out a call to Muslims in America: put out a fatwah on bin Laden, put out a fatwah on al-Zarqawi,” said panelist Lee Kaplan, a spokesman for The United American Committee. “Support America in the war on terror.”
Osman Umarji, former president of the Muslim Student Union, equated the decision to display the prophet drawings to the debasement of Jews in Germany before the Holocaust. He said none of the Muslims who protested outside the event would attend if the drawings were displayed.
“The agenda is to spread Islamophobia and create hysteria against Muslims similar to what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany,” said Umarji, an electrical engineer who graduated from Irvine last spring. “Freedom of speech has its limits.”
Organizers said unveiling the cartoons was part of a larger debate on Islamic extremism sponsored by the College Republicans and The United American Committee, a fledgling group not affiliated with the university.
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San Diego Union-Tribune

[underthedome]

Re: It Has Reached America

yea except no one really cares about the cartoons anymore, protests are old news and people in the U.S. are always pushing the evelope anyways and the cartoons really aren't much of a push at all or even shocking and there won't be violent protests over them in the states. Thanks for coming but yawn been there done that.

[MYwish]

Re: It Has Reached America

yes i read that on yahoo... very sad indeed.

there's no point in discussing things with ppl who have already made their minds up.

[Lajawab]

Re: It Has Reached America

Support the war on Muslims, er, terrorists…Display the cartoons…:k: