IRVINE, Calif. - "A student panel discussion on Islamic extremism that included a display of controversial cartoons that provoked protests by Muslims worldwide quickly descended into chaos as one speaker called Islam an "evil religion," and audience members nearly came to blows.
Organizers of the Tuesday night forum at the University of California, Irvine said showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad was part of a larger debate on Islamic extremism.
But several hundred protesters, including members of the Muslim Student Union, argued the event was the equivalent of hate speech disguised as freedom of expression.
The panel, which included one Muslim speaker, was sponsored by the College Republicans and The United American Committee, a fledgling group not affiliated with the university.
During the discussion in a nearly packed 424-seat campus auditorium, a UAC moderator displayed six cartoons: three depicting Muhammad, including one of him wearing a bomb-laden turban, and three anti-Semitic cartoons he said had appeared in Middle Eastern newspapers.
Thousands of Muslims worldwide have protested, sometimes violently, since the cartoons were published in a Danish newspaper in September and then in other European newspapers.
The drawings are offensive to Muslims because Islamic tradition frowns on any depiction of Muhammad or any other prophets for fear they could lead to idolatry."
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Yeah. Islamic "tradition" that's several hours old depending upon who the militant sand fleas are pissed off at. Pretty soon it'll be sacriligeous to even mention dirty old Mo's name if one is not a member of the Rape & Burn cult disguising itself as a religion. And please, no hateful emails, even though they DO make me smile, for I DID qualify this tirade by specifically referring to the MILITANT sand fleas. Not the peaceful sand fleas, okay? Anyone wishing to join in this new thing called CIVILIZATION is more than welcome. Anyone choosing to remain a 6th Century fuckwad is dead or on our list to be so.
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Every nation does not recognize Israel's right to exist but everyone can can agree they sure as hell have earned the right to exist.
Let's get "Palestine" off the EU tit and see if it survives as anything more than an Arafat gay fantasy he had while giving Leonid Brezhnev his quarterly blowjob.
Did I mention Israel has the right to exist?
Amazing how the wealthy Arabs will have nothing to do with the Paleswines, so they're forced to go begging to the Eurinals, and us too.
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