danzarely
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what does the government want with porn anyway? it's not like it's illegal. yet anyway. so there are a few lonely guys at home on the weekend- guess that makes them the enemy in the "war" on "terror".
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By Tom Heneghan
PARIS (Reuters) - An international row over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad gathered pace on Thursday as more European dailies printed Danish caricatures of him and Muslims stepped up pressure to stop them.
About a dozen Palestinian gunmen surrounded European Union offices in the Gaza Strip demanding an apology for the cartoons, one of which shows Islam's founder wearing a bomb-shaped turban. Muslims consider any images of Mohammad to be blasphemous.
The owner of France Soir, a Paris daily that reprinted them on Wednesday along with one German and two Spanish papers, sacked its managing editor to show "a strong sign of respect for the beliefs and intimate convictions of every individual".
But the tabloid staunchly defended its right to print the cartoons. Switzerland's Le Temps and La Tribune de Geneve ran some of them on Thursday, as did Magyar Hirlap in Budapest. Some European dailies ran cartoons making fun of the controversy.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the issue had gone beyond a row between Copenhagen and the Muslim world and now centred on Western free speech versus taboos in Islam, which is now the second religion in many European countries.
"We are talking about an issue with fundamental significance to how democracies work," Rasmussen told the Copenhagen daily Politiken. "One can safely say it is now an even bigger issue."
The clash has commercial repercussions. Danish companies have reported sales falling in the Middle East after protests against the cartoons in the Arab world and calls for boycotts.
SCATHING ARAB REACTION
Reaction in Middle East countries has been scathing.
"In the West, one discovers there are different moral ceilings and all moral parameters and measures are not equal," wrote the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat.
"If the Danish cartoon had been about a Jewish rabbi, it would never have been published."
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef said Riyadh considered the cartoons an insult to Mohammad and all Muslims. "We hope that religious centres like the Vatican will clarify their opinion in this respect," he told the state news agency SPA.
In Beirut, the leader of Lebanon's Shi'ite Hizbollah said the row would never had occurred if a 17-year-old death edict against British writer Salman Rushdie been carried out.
"Had a Muslim carried out Imam Khomeini's fatwa against the apostate Salman Rushdie, then those lowlifers would not have dared discredit the Prophet, not in Denmark, Norway or France," Hizbollah head Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday night.
The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called on Muslims in 1989 to kill Rushdie for blasphemy against Islam in his book "The Satanic Verses". Rushdie went into hiding and was never attacked.
Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Mohammad, and Syria have recalled their ambassadors to Denmark.
FRANCE SOIR'S SELF-DEFENCE
Defending its decision to publish the cartoons, France Soir wrote: "Imagine a society that added up all the prohibitions of different religions. What would remain of the freedom to think, to speak and even to come and go?
"We know societies like that all too well. The Iran of the mullahs, for example. But yesterday, it was the France of the Inquisitions, the burning stakes and the Saint Bartholomew's Day (massacre of Protestants)."
Other European dailies printed cartoons mocking the row. Le Monde in Paris ran a sketch of a man whose beard and turban were made up of lines saying "I must not draw Mohammad".
Jyllands-Posten has apologised for any hurt the caricatures may have caused, but police said the paper's offices in Aarhus were evacuated on Wednesday evening for the second time in two days after a bomb threat. Workers returned after the all-clear.
Denmark says it cannot tell free media what to do.
Danish police said on Wednesday they had told the country's imams they were "highly aware of the risks of an escalation of the case, including the calls to burn the Koran, which these days flourish on the Internet and via SMS (phone messages)".
it's utterly ridiculous that anyone feel they have ANY right to make ANY derrogatory comments on anyone else's religion. it's barbaric and i'd hoped that it didn't exist outside of this hell hole i call the southern US. guess i was wrong. pity.
thoughts? cares? concerns?
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soon enough we'll all be living in tiny apartments being monitored 24/7 and when we step out of line "WHAM!" right in the slammer for falling in love with a woman you shouldn't. but in the end we'll all just get shot by the FBI anyway- i mean come on- the government is clearly using george orwell as a blue print...
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i have to go with houdini on this one; "Stupid is as stupid does."video games don't kill people- they cause addictions, yes- but stupid people kill people. i cant say ive ever seen the allure of street racing. it's like "let's see how fast we can go surrounded by two tons of pure steel!"---stupid
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there have been a few similar stories on the atlanta news. i can understand the complaints, and im sure apple will do something about the volume levels, but at the same time if you are dumb enough to blast music in your ears through HEADPHONES then you deserve to lose your hearing.
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generally even with a warranty, anything over a year and a half is looked at like you've had the product, you broke the product. whether you did or not- it's just my experiance.
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has anyone played this? it's an old Dreamcast fighter. I'm still addicted. Very anime. Even the story line.
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are there any 3d text based games out there???
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i'm a muonline kinda guy,
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if there was no monthly fee, like Guild Wars, i'd most certainly be playing it. i just dont have the money for that.
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Does anyone here play Guild Wars? would you suggest it??
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I haven't found any thrilling RPGs lately. any suggestions? i've yet to find a game that can compete with Legend of Mana other than Suikoden.
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the closest i've come to playing a dating sim would be "SINGLES 2: TRIPLE TROUBLE" --it's fun but I don't know if i'd call it a dating sim.
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SM:AS is by far one of my favorite games. as simple as it is- the story is great and it's REALLY addictive. Kudos on this post
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hiya everyone. i'm a n00b. love me.
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i can honestly say i wouldnt care because it seems like nothing special for me.
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I just installed Black and White 2 but I keep gettins this "Please update your video card." message---but---I have NO IDEA how to..any help?
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pornography is in no way illegal. the law against "hc" porn was dropped in the late 80's. now, of course, child pornography and other mentally disturbing types of porn are clearly illegal, but porn itself is not illegal. they sell it at blockbuster for goodness sakes