-- But it's no longer about the cartoons, you see. Ignore all incinerated evidence to the contrary. No, it's all about the west's reaction to Islam:
CRISIS NOT ABOUT THE CARTOONSThat's the whole article. Not one contrary view presented. No critical questions asked. Out of a 278 word piece, 245 were either direct quotes or secondary relation of his statements.
[Nice title, isn't it? Not "Imam claims..." but the Imam's view, stated as fact. - Ed]
The Muslim cleric accused of instigating the world wide protests over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed says the escalating violence is no longer about the cartoon, but a reaction to the West's view of Islam.
[Accused? He has admitted his role! - Ed]
"This protest is not about the cartoons, offensive as they are," Imam Ahmed Abu- Laban said.
"The cartoons are merely the final drop that caused the cup to overflow.
"We have heard Western politicians relate our faith to terrorism, over and over again, and it is too much. This was the response."
Imam Abu- Laban, who leads a mosque in Copenhagen, said he never intended for rioters to attack Danish embassies and businesses in the Middle East.
But added Danish officials had brought the crisis on themselves by not responding to initial protests.
Imam Abu- Laban said he "cries" for Denmark but doesn't feel responsible for the way the dispute has flared internationally.
"People credit me with far more power than I have," he said.
The cartoons, which were first published in Denmark in September, have led to angry demonstrations [??? Oh, and by the way, nearly a dozen murders. - Ed] in the Middle East and Asia and a commercial boycott of Danish products in several Middle Eastern countries.
Seeking support
Imam Abu-Laban acknowledged that he began contacting Muslims in the Middle East late last year in an effort to build pressure on the Danish government to condemn the cartoons.
"European politicians want Muslim votes," he said.
"We were running a campaign, trying to create pressure."
He says he'd helped organise visits to Egypt and Lebanon, where he and other Muslims from Denmark displayed the cartoons.
But that those trips were aimed at garnering political support, not inciting riots.
This article is nothing but a public relations pamphlet in which the Imam expresses his side of the story, which is really just a bunch of blatant lies. There's no debate. This man faked evidence and took it half way around the world to many Muslim countries, knowing full well what a picture of a Mohammed/pig hybrid would make the cretins of the Middle East do.
He faked cartoons, knowing that they would cause his fellow Muslims to kill non-Muslims and burn down embassies. He is directly responsible for the systematic propagation of Muslim rage over cartoons that had been published months before.
As for SBS, this is the kind of stuff Australians have come to expect from them. The sooner they are sold off, the better. The only people who watch them are soccer fans and horny teenagers hoping to catch a glimpse of a bare breast in some obscure French film.
Update: This is how SBS treats people they don't like. People like George W. Bush. The critical and contradictory segments (which were totally absent from the Imam's piece) are highlighted in red:
BUSH DENIES INTELLIGENCE TWISTHardly any bias there at all! I must be imagining things.
["Bush denies...?" Wait a minute, I thought that the rule was to state the subject's opinion as fact? - Ed]
US President George Bush has hit back at what he’s called "deeply irresponsible" charges that he won support for war in Iraq by exaggerating intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons programs.
"These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will," he told a Veterans Day crowd of former and active US military personnel in Pennsylvania.
Unabated violence in Iraq has overshadowed political progress there,
helping to drive the President Bush’s poll numbers to their worst levels ever, as the number of US soldiers killed there passed the symbolic milestone of 2,000.
And with the failure to find the weapons of mass destruction at the core of Bush's case for war, opposition Democrats have redoubled their charges that he intentionally exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam to justify the conflict.
President Bush countered that the United Nations, intelligence services around the world, and many Democrats at home all agreed with him before the US-led March 2003 invasion that Saddam possessed unconventional weapons.
"While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision, or the conduct
of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war
began," he said at an army depot.
The president pointed to a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation
that found "no evidence" of political pressure on intelligence analysts to
change their findings about Iraq's suspected arsenals.
Democrats hit back
But Democrats have noted that neither that probe, nor a bipartisan panel known as the Silberman-Robb commission, looked at whether the administration misused the intelligence they received.
Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy was quick to hit back, calling the speech "a campaign-like attempt to rebuild his own credibility by tearing down those who seek the truth about the clear manipulation of intelligence."
"Each day, the American people learn more and more about the truth," he said in a statement. "Its time for the president to restore the trust of the American people in their leaders by coming clean about the war."
A spate of recent polls have shown deep and growing pessimism about the situation in Iraq and found that many in the United States now think that Bush deliberately misstated Saddam's capabilities.
Your tax dollars hard at work. Just not for us.
Cross-posted from FoJ
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