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...Preemption against a nuclear bomb by a guy who wants to start World War III over a cartoon might not be such a bad idea if we have to do it,” he said...
...later said that Iran might be the only nation in the world that would use a nuclear bomb if it acquired one, and that the former chief Pakistani nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, who aided nuclear weapons programs in Iran, North Korea, and Libya, deserved a “Nobel War Prize” and is the “most evil, dangerous person on the face of the Earth today...
Ideas can hurt. The messy storm of upset, anger, protests and murderous violence unleashed over the past two weeks by Danish newspaper cartoons that Muslims find blasphemous has proved that once again. But in Europe, whatever one may think about the intelligence or taste of portraying Muhammad with a bomb on his head, people have found a reassuring port in the storm: their belief in the political miracle of free speech. In Western democracies, the right to express an idea, no matter how offensive, always trumps the impulse of the offended to censor. No government should be able to jail...
...unanimously, observed taboo against physical representations of the Prophet. But the paper published the 12 submissions it received anyway, on Sept. 30. To a neutral observer, the drawings ranged from puerile to mildly provocative: one shows Muhammad as a Bedouin flanked by two women in burqas, another with a bomb in his turban. Fatih Alev, an imam in Copenhagen, says he "wasn't particularly incensed" when he saw the cartoons in the paper but suspected it would anger some local Muslims. "Many Muslims in Denmark are not used to reading long articles. Many don't even read Danish," says Alev...
...outrage among moderate Muslims less because the cartoons depicted Muhammad than because of the way in which the Prophet was portrayed. "Eleven of the series were problematic but not outrageous," says Antoine Basbous, director of the Observatory of Arab Countries in Paris. The cartoon that showed Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, however, "was simply far beyond the pale. The direct link between him, and Islam, to terrorism acted like a bomb among Muslims...