Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Bush Backs The Danes

February 8, 2006 -- "President Bush called Denmark's leader yesterday to express "our solidarity and support" in the escalating crisis over cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed.
Bush and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen agreed the bitter dispute should be resolved "through dialogue and tolerance, not violence," the White House said.
The State Department, which criticized the cartoons as "unacceptable" last week, said U.S. diplomats around the world have been ordered to offer embattled Danish embassies whatever help they need.
The support came as dozens of angry militants briefly stormed the Danish Embassy and stoned the Norwegian Embassy in Iran, which is becoming a center of the fury.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the cartoons, originally published in Denmark in September and reprinted in Norway, amounted to a "conspiracy by Zionists who were angry because of the Hamas victory" in recent Palestinian elections."

Wowsers. so the Danes and Norwegians are Zionists. Cool. And those wacky moslems are killing people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Yemen, Gaza, Djibouti, India, the Philippines and Azerbaijan because they're pissed at Denmark.

ANY excuse to rape and pillage, eh Ali?

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