C/laahi Yusuf iyo Geedi oo shir ku yeeshay Gaalkacyo Gaalkacyo:- Raysalwasaaraha Soomaaliya Cali Maxamed Geedi ayaa maanta kulan khaas ah la yeeshay Madaxweynaha DFKMG Soomaaliya C/laahi Yusuf Ahmed. Kulankan ayaa ka dhacay Hotel Taar City oo ay maanta Qado ku wada lahaayeen mas;uuliyiinta Dowlada ee horey ugu sugnaa magaalada Gaalkacyo iyo kuwii maanta magaalada soo gaaray. Raysalwasaare Geedi oo maanta asaga iyo wafdigiisa si weyn loogu soo dhaweeyey magaalada Gaalkacyo ayaa kulankii ugu horeeyey ee uu la yeesho Madaxweynaha uu ahaa mid ay albaabada u xiran yihiin. Sida ay sheegeen mas'uuliyiinta ku sugan goobta shirka ka dhacay ayaa sheegay in labada hogaamiye ay ka wada hadleen arrimaha la xariira sidii dowlada dar dar loo gelin lahaa. Waxay sidoo kale warar hoose oo soo gaaraya HorseedNet ay tibaaxayaan in labada dhinac ay isku soo qaaden qodobo dhowr ah oo la horgeyn doono Shirka 26ka bisha ka dhacaya magaalada Baydhabo. Guddoomiyaha Baarlamaanka Shariif Xassan Shiikh ayaa lagu wadaa in maalinta berito ah uu soo gaaro magaalada Gaalkacyo. Shariif Xassan ayaa sidoo kale la kulmi doona Madaxweynaha iyo Raysalwasaaraha. Kulamadan ayaa ah kuwo horudhac u ah Kalfadhiga ka dhici doono magaalada Baydhabo oo lagu wado in ay ka qeyb galaan sadexda mas'uul ee ugu sareysa dowlada. Cabdifutaax Shirwac HorseedNet.com

Gaalkacyo: Madaxwaynaha Soomaaliya iyo Raysulwasaaraha oo kulan ay albaabadu u xiran yihiin ku yeeshay Gaalkacyo , iyo warar horu dhac ah oo kasoo baxaya. - Wednesday, February 08, 2006 at 16:58 Gaalkayco(AllPuntland)- Madaxwaynaha Soomaaliya Md: C/llaahi Yuusuf Axmed iyo raysul wasaare Cali Maxamed Geeddi ayaa maanta kulan albaabadu u xiran yihiin ku yeeshay Hotel Taar ee magaalada Gaalkacyo. Kulankan oo ahaa mid saxaafadda laga hor joogsaday ayaa waxaan isku daynay inaan xiriir la samayno madaxda dawladda federaalka ee kusugnaa halkii shirku ka dhacayay. Masuul ka gaabsaday in magiciisa la sheego ayaa AllPuntland uga waramay waxyaabihii ay isku soo qaadeen madaxwaynaha iyo raysulwasaaraha Soomaaliya, waxaana uu sheegay in kulanka lagu soo qaaday sidii loo sii wadi lahaa qorshaha lagu doonayo inuu qabsoomo markii ugu horaysay kulan baarlamaan oo ay soo xaadiraan dhammaan xubnaha baarlamaanka. Waxyaabaha laga wada hadlay waxaa kamid ah in saddexda xubnood ee ugu saraysa dawladda ay isku fikrad ka qaataan arimaha dawladda sida kulanka baarlamaanka iyo isugu yeeridda xubnaha baarlamaanka ee ku kala firiqsan caalamka. Xubnaha ugu saraysa dawladda oo saamayn ku leh dawladda iyo hawleeda ayaa la sheegay inay isku af garteen inay hawlaha dawladda si khilaaf la'aan ah u wadaan , waxyaabaha yar yar ee jiri karana ay tanaasulaad ka sameeyaan. Arimaha ay madaxwaynaha iyo raysulwasaaruhu isla soo qaadeen waxaa kamid ah kulanka saddex geesoodka ee la filayo inuu dhawaan dhex mari doono madaxwaynaha , raysulwasaaraha iyo guddoomiyaha baarlamaanka ajandayaasha looga hadlayo. Waa markii ugu horaysay oo lasheego in xubnaha dawladdu isugu tagaa goob ku taalla Soomaaliya , waase haddii uu magaalada Gaalkacyo tago Shariif Xasan Sheekh Aadan. CCC Farayaamo AllPuntland

^^^ Nice pics indeed. More news concerning Baidoa. Wefdi xildhibaano iyo wasiiro jowhar katagay oo baydhobo gaarey Febraayo 8, 2006 Markacadeey. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wefdigaan oo isugu jira wasiiro, wasiiro kuxigeen iyo xildhibaano ayaa waxaa horkacayey wasiirka dastuurka iyo arimaha federaalka mr. Cabdala Deerow ***** Wefdigaan oo si weyn loogu soo dhaweeyay gegida dayaaradaha baydhabo ayaa Waxay kasoo kictameen magaalada jowhar ee xarunta gobolka shabeelaha dhexe ayagoo sida ay sheegeena hordhac ay uyihiin kulanka baarlamaanka oo 26ka February ka furmi doona magaaladaan. Wefdigaan oo tira ahaan ka koobnaa ilaa 13 xubnood ayaa markii ay baydhabo soo gaareen waxaa ladajiyay hotelka Al qudus oo iyagu loo diyaariyay maalmo kahor Imaashaha wefdigaan oo shalay kadib makii uu baydhabo soo gaarey gudoomiyaha baarlamaanka shariif xasan sheekh aadan lashaaciyaay in maanta ay baydhabo soo gaarayaa wefdi jowhar ka imaanaya ayaa hadana maanta dadka reer baydhabo waxay kunoqotay filan waa oo waxayba soo caga dhigatay dayaaradii wefdigaasi siday abaarihii halkii saac oo inta badan dadkuna ay ahaayeen kuwo daalanaa oo guryahooda iska joogeen. Xubnaha baydhabo soogaaray saakay ayaa waxaa kamid ah 1. W.dastuurka & arimaha federaalka Cabdala deerow isxaaq 2. w.dib uheshiisiinta iyo xiriirka jaaliyadaha sheekh adan sheekh madeer 3. w. tamarta maxamed nuuraani bakar 4. w/k. owqaafta iyo diinta cali sheekh maxamed 5. w/k. batroolka madoowe nuunow maxamed 6. w/k. dhaqan celinta maleeshiyooyinka ***** yacquub (Geescade) 7. kuxigeenka nidaamiyaha baarlamaanka Axmed cabdi cumar iyo cabdulaahi cabdi garuun oo isna ah wasiir ku xigeen iyo kuwo kale guud ahaanba dadka ree baydhabo waxay ku howlan yihiin maalmahaan sidii ay ugu dhabeen lahaayeen in magaaladaan ay diyaar utahay ayada iyo shacbigeeda soo dhaweenta dowlada federaalka laamaheeda kala duwan ayadoo bilicda iyo amaanka magaaladuna uu aad u heersareeyo Abshir maxamed nuur (mandeela)

^^^ If thats so why do we refer to it as the Arabic numerals and not the Hindi or Chinese numerals?

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Gudoomiyaha Barlamanka iyo wafdigii uu hogaaminayey oo gaaray Baydhabo waxaa magaalada Baydhabo ee xarunta gobolka Bay goor dhawayd soo gaaray Gudoomiyha Barlamanka Soomaliya Sharif Xasan Sheekh Aadan iyo wafdigii uu hogaaminayey ,ayna ka mid yihiin wasiirka hawlaha guud iyo guriyeynta Cismaan Xasan Caato,wasiirka gaadidka cirka iyo dhulka Ibraahim Kiish Buur, wafdigan ayaa waxaa garoonka diyaaradaha ee magaalada Baydhabo ku soo dhaweeyay masuuliyin ka tirsan labada gole ee DFKKMS ,kuwaas oo qaarkod iyaga laftigoodu dhowaan soo gaaray magaalada Baydhabo,iyo dadweyne aad u farabadan kuwaas oo muddo dhawr cisho ah ku guda jiray tabaabushaha soo dhawaynta gudoomiyaha iyo wafdigisa Sharifka iyo wafdigisa ayaa waxaa ay maanta ka soo duuleen magaalada Nairobi ee caasimada Kenya halkas oo isaga iyo madaxweyne Cabdilahi aykaga dhawaaqeen go'aankodii la xiriiray in shirka barlamanka ee loo dhan yahay in 26 bishan lagu qabto magaalada Baydhabo, wixii warar ah oo soo kordha isha ku hay Horseednet.Com

^^^ Its not just Mr Bryden but all these western NGO's who keep us weak and misrable as the basis for their existance. We need to reevaluate why we are stuck in thre first gear and in the slow lane as others pass us by.

^^^ Indeed, we have had a few centuries of division of these pathetic nation states. Yet with Globalisation comes the opportunity for Islam to reawaken and to assert its rights over its lands. We are not small nor do we lack anything. Remember before us in the wold did not even have the concept of 0[zero]. The western powers have tried their best and are yet able to defeat the Palastinians.

Hamas and Democracy by Charley Reese I laughed when Hamas swept the Palestinian elections. After all, President Bush and his gang of neoconservative ideologues have been preaching that democracy in the Middle East will lead to peace. Oops. Now the president will once more have to expose himself as the hypocrite he is. Democracy is good, in Mr. Bush's view, only if it elects the people he wants in office. The choice of the Palestinian majority, expressed in what all the observers said was a free and fair election, is not acceptable to Mr. Bush. Hamas, you should know, has been around for a long time, and for most of that time, the United States did not label it a terrorist organization. Hamas has a military wing, but the majority of its efforts have been in providing welfare, medical care, and education to dirt-poor Palestinians who would have to do without but for Hamas. Unlike the corrupt Fatah, the Palestinian party Mr. Bush apparently wanted to win, Hamas has a reputation for being honest. If there is anything American politicians fear, it is an honest man. More than one is even worse. How can the Bush administration bribe the Palestinian Authority into keeping quiet while Israel unilaterally consolidates its position if the elected people won't accept bribes for selling out their constituents? No wonder the Bush White House is worried. If I were the leader of Hamas, I would send President Bush a message that said essentially this: "Don't worry about not talking to us. We have no desire to talk to you. For 39 years you Americans have talked about peace processes and have not recovered one square centimeter of Palestinian land. On the contrary, Israel has expanded into Palestinian territory while you prevented the United Nations from taking any action to stop it. "The conflict in Palestine is quite simple. In 1967, Israel invaded and has since occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem. We lack the military power to eject the Israelis and therefore have zero influence on them. You, who have given Israel more than $90 billion, do have influence. So, instead of talking to us, talk to the Israelis. As soon as the Israeli occupation is ended, the problem in Palestine will go away. In the meantime, we have a lot of domestic problems to solve, which was the platform we ran on anyway." As for the suicide bombings Hamas has carried out, I have said before that the method of delivery is irrelevant. We and the Israelis deliver our bombs from airplanes, helicopters, and artillery tubes. Since the Palestinians are denied modern weapons, they have to walk or drive their bombs to the targets. Morally, there is no difference whatsoever between bombs delivered by air or by foot. It is an undeniable fact that we have killed a thousand times more civilians in Iraq, Panama, Libya, Serbia, Grenada, and Vietnam than Hamas has killed Israelis. Naturally, we dismiss the civilians we kill as "collateral damage." The death toll in the latest intifada, by the way, is 1,084 Israelis killed by Palestinians and 3,786 Palestinians killed by Israelis. Not all of those Israelis were killed by Hamas. Fatah also has a military wing, and there are other resistance organizations. But back to the president's strategic blunder. He should have read my column. I've said over and over that the largest group of people in the Middle East pushing for democracy is the Islamic parties, and the only "friends" we have in the Middle East are the rulers we pay to be our friends. You will notice that Egypt, Jordan, and the Saudis, all on our payroll in one way or another, were the first to call on Hamas to moderate its stand. I doubt Hamas will do so. That's the trouble with honest people of sincere faith. They believe they must answer to a higher authority, and their loyalty is not for sale. Palestinians, like everyone else on Earth, have an inalienable right to resist occupation of their homeland. It is to our shame and disgrace that we side with the occupiers. At any rate, Mr. Bush and the neocons had better be more careful about what they wish for.

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^^^ Why do you wonder that? They have burned down our capittals, Beirut, Bagdad. They have occupied our lands, Palastine and our holly Al Aqsa. I hope you was being ironic.

^^^ You have some valid points however people must understand that there are more than 1.6 Billion Muslims living in eevery corner of the globe. Thus reaction will differ, some will keep quite, others demonstrate and others resort to other means. Yet so far what has happened has been mild, a boycot and the destruction of few buildings. Now it is to be expected from the west to cry foul, to say this [our demosntartions] has been over the top. However the actions so far have been nothing to the true anger that we feel. Our Prophet is everything to us, he PBUH is the very example of how to live. It is to be expected also that they will never like him, but we expect that they keep that to themselves.

Iranian paper launches Holocaust cartoon competition By Simon Freeman and agencies Iran’s biggest-selling newspaper has waded into the Muhammad controversy by launching a competition to find the 12 "best" cartoons about the Holocaust. Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor for Tehran's Hamshahri newspaper, said that the deliberately inflammatory contest would test out how committed Europeans were to the concept freedom of expression. "The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let’s see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons," he said. Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said that victims of the Holocaust and their families were growing used to insults from Iran. "It's just very sad," she told Times Online. Iran’s regime is supportive of Holocaust revisionist historians, who maintain that the slaughter of Europe’s Jews during the Second World War was invented or exaggerated to justify the creation of Israel on Palestinian territory. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad courted international denunciation recently when he argued for Israel to be "wiped off the map". The President's vitriolic attacks on Israel have further soured relations with the West, already at loggerheads over the republic's nuclear research programme. Mr Mortazavi said that tomorrow's edition of the paper would invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with gold coins as prizes for the 12 winning artists -- the same number of cartoons that appeared in the conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten lighting the touchpaper for fury which has swept around the Islamic world. Last week the Iranian Foreign Ministry invited Tony Blair to Tehran to take part in a planned conference on the Holocaust. Mr Blair said that such a conference was "shocking, ridiculous, ****** ". The Prime Minister responded by inviting Mr Ahmadinejad to witness the evidence of the Holocaust in the countries of Europe. Public protests against the publication of the cartoons have been relatively calm in Iran, although a crowd of about 200 smashed the windows of the Austrian Embassy in Tehran today. The protesters, chanting "God is Greatest" and "Europe, Europe, shame on you", smashed all the diplomatic mission’s windows with stones and then tried to hurl petrol bombs inside. Iran has withdrawn its ambassador to Denmark and has said it plans to review trade ties with all countries where the cartoons were published. Mr Ahmadinejad has criticised the argument of freedom of speech employed by European newspapers to justify publication of the cartoons. "If your newspapers are free why do not they publish anything about the innocence of the Palestinians and protest against the crimes committed by the Zionists?" the Mehr news agency quoted him as saying. Andrew Kaufman, chairman of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR), said: "We deplore this despicable initiative to trivialise the brutality of the Holocaust that will cause enormous insensitivity to all survivors of Nazism."

Danish embassy in Tehran attacked Staff and agencies Monday February 6, 2006 Iranian protesters burn Danish and French flags in front of the Austrian embassy in Tehran. Photograph: Vahid Salemi/AP Hundreds of angry protesters threw stones and firebombs at the Danish embassy in Tehran today to protest against the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. Police had encircled the embassy building but were unable to hold back up to 400 demonstrators as they pelted the mission with stones and incendiary devices. So far the protesters have not breached the police cordon to get inside the structure, but they managed to throw a handful of firebombs over the building's high outer wall. The embassy had already been evacuated. The Bush administration today condemned the violent protests against the cartoons that have taken place around the world and urged governments to take steps to lower tensions. "We understand fully why people, why Muslims, find the cartoons offensive, and we've also spoken out about the importance of the right for people to express their views and freedom of speech in society," the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said. "Those who disagree with the views that were expressed certainly have the right to condemn them but they should be peaceful and we urge constructive dialogue about this difficult issue." The caricatures were first published in Denmark in September and have since been republished in other newspapers in Europe and elsewhere. Muslims consider any images of the prophet to be blasphemous. One of the cartoons featured Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. Some 200 Iranian student demonstrators also threw stones at the Austrian embassy in Tehran, breaking some windows and starting small fires. Austria was targeted because it currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU. Members of the Iranian parliament issued a statement warning that those who published the cartoons should remember the case of Salman Rushdie. The late Iranian leader issued a "fatwa", or religious edict, in 1989 calling for Rushdie's death following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims found blasphemous. Iranian radio and television also reported a series of boycotts of Danish medical equipment and consumer goods, and the suspension of trade negotiations with Denmark. In Afghanistan, two protesters were shot dead and three other people, including two police officials, were injured in the central city of Mihtarlam when police fired on hundreds of demonstrators, an interior ministry spokesman, Dad Mohammed Rasa, said. Meanwhile, Syria apologised to Chile after a mob set fire to the Chilean embassy in Damascus on Saturday while attacking the Danish embassy, which is in the same building. In Romania, the country's main press organisation today urged all media not to publish the cartoons, and in Chechnya, the pro-Russian government banned Danish humanitarian organisations from the war-torn Muslim region in protest against the pictures. Demonstrators threw stones at EU offices in the Gaza Strip and pulled down the EU flag. In Yemen, a small newspaper, al-Hurriya, was closed down and its editor arrested for printing the caricatures, while in Warsaw, the editor of Rzeczpospolita - a Polish newspaper that reprinted the images - said that he was sorry if the publication had caused offence to Muslims, but defended it as an act of solidarity. In Jordan, a majority of parliamentarians demanded that the government cancel agreements with Denmark, Norway, New Zealand and other nations where the drawings were published. In Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, police fired warning shots to stop protesters from ripping a plaque from the wall of the US consulate in Surabaya, the country's second largest city, witnesses said. Hundreds of demonstrators threw rocks at the Danish consulate in the city before moving on to the US consulate. In India, riot police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of student protesters who burned Danish flags and chanted slogans in New Delhi. Dozens of protesters torched Danish flags, burned tyres and shouted slogans in several parts of Srinagar, Kashmir, police said. In Bangkok, about 400 members of Thailand's Muslim minority shouted "God is Great" outside Denmark's embassy, and some demonstrators stamped on a Danish flag. In Malaysia, an editor of a newspaper that ran one of the drawings to accompany an article about the lack of impact of the controversy inside the country resigned, according to a statement seen Monday.

New protests erupt in cartoon row Monday 06 February 2006, 21:49 Makka Time, 18:49 GMT Iranians were stopped from storming the Austrian embasseis. Fresh protests have erupted across Asia and the Middle East over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, despite calls by world leaders for calm after Danish diplomatic missions were set ablaze in Lebanon and Syria. On Monday Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, expressed alarm and urged restraint, but oil giant Iran, which is reviewing trade ties with countries that published the cartoons, vowed to respond to what it called "an anti-Islamic and Islamophobic current". In Tehran on Monday, about 200 people pelted the embassy of Austria, the current EU president, with petrol bombs and stones over the cartoons and Iran's nuclear confrontation with the West. The mission did not catch fire and police prevented people from storming it. Further demonstrations were planned for later on Monday outside the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Tehran. Denmark has been the focus of Muslim rage as the images, one showing the Prophet Muhammad with a turban resembling a bomb, first appeared in a Danish daily. Muslims in the Gulf Arab region have intensified a boycott of Danish goods. Middle way? The furore has developed into a clash between press freedom and religious respect, with many advocating a middle way. For Muslims, depicting the prophet is prohibited by Islam, but moderate Muslim groups, while condemning publication of the cartoons and bridling at what they see as provocation, expressed fears about extremists hijacking the affair. Countries where the controversial cartoons have been printed so far: Ukraine, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, New Zealand, Poland, the United States, Japan, Norway, Malaysia, Australia, Jordan and Morrocco Philippe Douste-Blazy, the French foreign minister said, in a view echoed by other leaders after the weekend riots in Beirut and Damascus: "I call on all Arab countries to talk with moderation about what is happening. Let's keep it calm." Ukraine became the 18th country where papers published the cartoons, joining Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, New Zealand, Poland, the US, Japan, Norway, Malaysia, Australia, Jordan and Morrocco. Furious Muslims once again took to the streets on Monday. One protester was killed in Afghanistan in clashes with police. Another person died at the weekend when flames forced him to jump from the burning Danish consulate in Beirut. Call for execution Speaking from Beirut, Omar Bakri Mohammad, leader of the Islamist group Al-Muhajiroon which is banned in Britain, called for those who blaspheme against the prophet to be executed. "In Islam, God said, and the messenger Mohammad said, whoever insults a prophet, he must be punished and executed," he told BBC radio by telephone. Britain issued a stern warning after a small group of protesters caused a storm by marching in London with placards threatening beheadings and bloodshed. Chirac phoned the Danish PM to express solidarity "The attacks on the citizens of Denmark and the people of other European countries are completely unacceptable as is the behaviour of some of the demonstrators in London over the last few days," it said in a statement. Moderate Muslim groups as well as Western leaders condemned the weekend violence and calls to arms and urged calm. The prime ministers of Turkey and Spain, in an opinion piece for the International Herald Tribune newspaper, said: "With growing concern, we are witnessing the escalation in disturbing tensions." "We shall all be the losers if we fail to immediately defuse this situation, which can only leave a trail of mistrust and misunderstanding between both sides in its wake," Tayyip Erdogan and Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said in the joint article, adding, "Let the voice of reason be heard." Iran's approach But Iran, which has withdrawn its ambassador from Denmark, saw things differently, saying the cartoons "launched an anti-Islamic and Islamophobic current which will be answered". In Tehran, Golamhossein Elham, the Iranian government spokesman, said: "It was an ugly measure. The Islamic republic of Iran is prepared to sacrifice its life for its belief in Islam and the honour of the Holy Prophet." Police fired on protesters in Afghanistan, killing one Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran's foreign minister, called for an emergency meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to discuss what he called Islamophobia in the West. Meanwhile, Iran's largest selling newspaper, Hamshahri, announced it would be holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. All day Monday there was a flurry of public statements as well as behind-the-scenes diplomatic activity to prevent divisions deepening between Muslim countries and the West. Jacques Chirac, the French president, telephoned Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, on Monday to express solidarity with Denmark and to examine how to calm the situation. European Union ambassadors meet on Monday to examine diplomatic options to try and defuse the tensions. Lebanon apologised to Denmark for the burning of its consulate. More than 300 people have so far been arrested. Travel warning Denmark advised its citizens to leave Lebanon and Syria and warned against travelling to other Middle Eastern destinations. Chechnya's pro-Moscow government on Monday banned Danish humanitarian organisations from the shattered region. There were new protests outside EU offices in Gaza on Monday and in several nations including Finland. In Afghanistan, one man was shot dead in clashes between protesters and police. Other protests took place in India, Indonesia and Thailand.

Muslims Get Animated, Denmark Becomes the New Israel By Aaron Goldstein (02/05/06) Anders Fogh Rasmussen Is My New Hero A week ago when one thought of Denmark one would likely conjure an image of a breakfast pastry or Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Now Denmark is in the midst of a real life epic tragedy but its people are holding steadfast. Denmark has provoked the ire of the Arab world and because of it has received the sort of treatment normally reserved for Israel. As of this writing, its embassy in Syria was set ablaze (along with that of Norway). Both Syria and Saudi Arabia have recalled their Ambassadors. Libya has closed its embassy in Copenhagen. Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq have demanded explanations from Danish diplomats. The Prime Minister of Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates’ Justice Minister have publicly condemned Denmark. An European Union office in the Gaza Strip was temporarily occupied by armed terrorists. Danish flags were burned in the West Bank. Terrorist entities such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt are demanding a formal apology by the Danish government. Danish products have been removed from grocery stores in Algeria, Bahrain, Morocco, Qatar, Tunisia and Yemen amongst other places. Muslims protesting near Regent’s Park in London held up signs such as “freedom of expression go to hell†and “behead the one who insults the prophetâ€. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi (London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s favorite imam) has called for an “international day of anger†against Denmark. Given al-Qaradawi’s support for Palestinian suicide bombers and the execution of homosexuals, it prompted Charles Moore to write, “This is a man for whom a single “day of anger†is surely little different from the other 364 days of the year.†Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the Danes that their government “cannot accept an assault against Islam.†In Iraq, followers of radical Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr organized an anti-Danish demonstration and demanded an apology from the EU. For its part, the Danish government has warned its citizens to refrain from traveling to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria and also withdrew aid workers from the Gaza Strip. It must also be remembered that Denmark has troops stationed in Iraq. In late January, a roadside bomb exploded near a joint Danish-Iraqi patrol outside of Basra. Fortunately, there were no casualties. So what has Denmark done to so anger Muslims? One of its newspapers, Jyllands-Posten, published some cartoons. Cartoons? Yes, cartoons. To be precise, in September 2005 it published several cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. In one cartoon, Mohammed appears to have a bomb in his turban. In another, Mohammed tells suicide bombers who have done their deed that there are no more virgins in heaven for them because there have been so many suicide bombings. Allow me to digress for a moment. I am certain if I were a Muslim I might not much care for cartoons of that nature. What if the shoe were on the other foot? Denmark is also fortunate to have Anders Fogh Rasmussen as their Prime Minister. Rasmussen has demonstrated track record of doing the right thing even if it is not always the popular thing be it with Iraq, Israel, immigration and for that matter taxation and deregulation. No government can capitulate to intimidation by a mob mentality even on a global scale. It is difficult to know how Lykketoft would have handled this situation had he been elected in 2005. The same could be said of current Social Democratic leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Given the volatility of the situation, Rasmussen has put his life on the line. I would not be surprised if within the next year there is an attempt on Rasmussen’s life. If Muslim extremists could execute Pim Fortuyn and Theo Van Gogh in Holland who can say that Rasmussen won’t be next? For that, Rasmussen is my new hero.

We must put a stop to this savage bitterness Leader Sunday February 5, 2006 The Observer On 30 September last year, caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad appeared in a Danish newspaper. Four months later, images of masked gunmen burning the Danish flag were beamed around the world. Now we see placard-bearing youths take to the streets of London. Their slogans incite murder and praise terror. The editors who first made the decision to print the Muhammad cartoons cannot have anticipated this volatile reaction. Had they known, would they still publish? Should they? All we can say with certainty is that they certainly had the right to do so. The choices that other European media have faced since then are more complex. Those who published the images have cited two justifications. The first is that audiences need to see the pictures to understand the story. The second is that since freedom of expression is under assault, running these particular cartoons is a point of principle. Observer/Sunday Guardian

Embassies ablaze as Muslim anger spreads · Damascus crowds attack Danish target · Police probe London 'hate' protesters Jamie Doward, Mark Townsend, Bartle Bull in Damascus and Gaby Hinsliff Sunday February 5, 2006 The Observer The increasingly bitter row over the publication of a series of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad reached a new intensity last night as protesters set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Syria. With police signalling that they will launch an investigation into the behaviour of protesters in London who called for those insulting Islam to 'be beheaded', protesters in the Syrian capital, Damascus, defied tear gas and water cannon to enter the Danish embassy and replace that country's flag with another which read: 'No God but Allah, Mohammad is His Prophet.' Last night the Danish embassy, which was empty when attacked, was a charred hulk. The Norwegian embassy was still burning. As well as the dramatic scenes in Damascus - not known for its Islamic militancy - rising tensions among Muslims over the publication of 'blasphemous' cartoons in Denmark threatened to boil over across the globe. · In London, 700 Muslims held a second day of angry protests outside the Danish embassy, many holding placards glorifying the events of 7 July and 9/11. · Metropolitan police sources told The Observer that arrests could follow this week after investigations of the behaviour on Friday of some protesters who demanded the 'massacre' of 'those who insult Islam'. They may have breached laws against inciting hatred or terrorism. · Groups representing British Muslims appealed for calm, saying the demonstrations and violence had gone too far. · In Iran, the President told his commerce minister to consider cancelling trade contracts with European countries whose newspapers used the cartoons. · The Hamas leader, Dr Mahmoud Zahar, told the Italian daily Il Giornale that the cartoons were an offence that should be punished by death. Last week hundreds of Palestinians marched through the streets of Gaza City, some storming European-owned buildings and burning German and Danish flags, while in Nazareth 6,000 people held the first protest on Israeli soil against the publication of the cartoons. People at a demonstration in Iraq, organised by followers of radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, issued a statement condemning the Danish, Norwegian and French newspapers that ran the drawings and called for the withdrawal of Iraq's ambassadors from those countries. The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, who had previously criticised newspapers for reprinting the cartoons, condemned the escalating violence last night. 'The violence is totally unjustified and to be condemned. I am glad that the British Muslim leaders have been very responsible.' He said Islam was a tolerant faith but 'you have people who are hotheaded and who will say they are adherents to a religion' in any faith. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, added her voice to international appeals for calm. 'I can understand that religious feelings of Muslims have been injured and violated but I I feel it is unacceptable to see this as legitimising the use of violence,' she said. Politicians from the Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz to the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, expressed disapproval of the decision to publish the cartoons. Last night the Metropolitan police signalled that they wanted to arrest people suspected of stirring up racial hatred during the demonstrations outside the Danish embassy in London. It is understood that a number of those identified by police last week were known to hold militant views. These included members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, the radical organisation banned in a number of European countries and Anjem Choudary, a key ally of Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, the exiled leader of the radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun who described the 7 July bombers as 'the fantastic four'. Choudary warned that the row over the cartoons was set to escalate. 'The Danish journalists and others who followed suit, I don't think they're going to be able to live peacefully from now on,' he told The Observer. 'A fatwa will be issued, there will be people around the Muslim world who will take that very seriously and what happened to Salman Rushdie is going to happen to the journalists.' Choudary's comments came as Britain's leading Muslim body called for the protesters to be prosecuted. Inayat Bunglawala, spokeswoman for the Muslim Council of Britain, said: 'The Metropolitan police should now consider all the evidence they have gathered from the protests to see if they can prosecute the extremists. It is time the police acted, but in a way so as not to make them martyrs of the prophet's cause, which is what they want, but as criminals. Ordinary Muslims are fed up with them.' Kurshid Ahmed, chairman of the British Muslim Forum, which represents more than 600 British mosques, said: 'The reaction and demonstration by some elements within our community are not reflective of who we are.' Azhar Ali, of Labour's National Policy Forum, said: 'My fear is some militant organisations will use this incident to propagate hate and this serves to act as a recruiting sergeant for their causes.'

Below is a supposed profile of our holly prophet. It is from the Independent newpaper of UK. It makes grave errors and I belive on purpose, describing the Prophet as a caravan raider and even gets his name wrong. Mohamed: Flesh and blood By Paul Vallely Published: 04 February 2006 "Say what you like about God - but be careful with Mohamed." So goes an old maxim among Western missionaries in Islamic lands, who found that Muslims might sometimes endure insulting references to the Almighty but would rarely tolerate insults to Mohamed or his family. The missionaries couldn't fathom it. Nor, ever since, it seems, has the rest of Western society. A Life in Brief BORN: Ahmad or Amin Ibn Abdullah. Mecca AD 570 or 571. Member of the Quraysh Bedouin tribe. FAMILY: Father, Abdulla, died before he was born. Mother, Aminah, died when he was six. Adopted by his uncle, Abu Talib. Aged 25, married well-to-do widow named Khadijah. Four daughters, who survived, and one son, who died aged two. Had 14 wives, in total, after Khadijah died. CAREER: Merchant for 15 years, warrior thereafter. After a vision of the Angel Gabriel in 610 he changed his name, aged 40, to Mohamed and founded the Muslim religion, which now has 1.3 billion adherents. In the early years he and his followers were persecuted in Mecca. Fled to city of Medina in AD622, which became year one in the Islamic calendar. Caravan raider. Defeated the army of Mecca at Battle of Badr in 624. Conquered other tribes of Arabia. Died AD632. HE SAYS: "The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr." THEY SAY: "Mohamed is easily the most maligned religious personality in the whole of history." - Shabbir Akhtar, author the whole article.

Danish embassy in Beirut torched Thousands of protesters rallied outside Beirut's Danish embassy Denmark urged its citizens to leave the country as soon as possible. The violence came a day after mobs in neighbouring Syria torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus in anger at the pictures. Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller urged anti-Danish protesters in Muslim countries to calm tensions. "It is a critical situation and it is very serious," Mr Moeller told Danish public radio. The cartoons first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September and caused outrage among Muslims, who consider any images of Muhammad offensive. One of the cartoons shows Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. Global anger CARTOON ROW 30 Sept:Danish paper publishes cartoons 20 Oct: Muslim ambassadors complain to Danish PM 10 Jan: Norwegian publication reprints cartoons 26 Jan: Saudi Arabia recalls its ambassador 30 Jan: Gunmen raid EU's Gaza office demanding apology 31 Jan: Danish paper apologises 1 Feb: Papers in France, Germany, Italy and Spain reprint cartoons 4 Feb: Syrians attack Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus [/b] Huge crowds attended Sunday's protest in Beirut. It turned violent after Islamic extremists tried to break though security barriers protecting the Danish embassy building. Some 2,000 riot police and army troops fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd and fired their weapons into the air. But smoke was later seen rising from the building after demonstrators broke into it. Some protesters threw stones at the security forces and burned Danish flags. Protesters torched the building after security forces failed to block them Security officials said at least 18 people were injured, AP news agency reported. The embassy building, which also houses commercial offices, was believed to be unoccupied. Some people in the crowd are not happy with the violence, thinking this was going to be a peaceful demonstration, reports the BBC's Jim Muir from the scene of the violence. He says some of the wilder elements in the crowd have succeeded in turning it into a very angry and quite violent demonstration. In other developments: Hundreds of people rally in Afghanistan in protest at the cartoons Jordanian authorities arrest two tabloid editors for printing the cartoons Iran recalls its ambassador to Denmark An Iraqi militant group in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi calls for attacks on Danish and non-Muslim targets in Iraq Britain's main opposition Conservative Party says slogans by anti-Danish protesters in London amount to incitement to murder Denmark and Norway condemned Syria for failing to stop Saturday's attacks in Damascus and urged their citizens to leave the country. "The principle of diplomatic relations is that diplomats can work safely and the fact that this has been broken is extremely serious," Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a news conference in Oslo. The US also criticised Syria's approach, saying it was "inexcusable" for such damage to be inflicted on diplomatic missions.

This is a call to all the nomads in SOL political/general etc. to realize that we are all brothers and sisters to each other and we should give up the deep hatred and the pity that we direct towards one another. Love someone as you would love to loved. I agree with you.

Embassies burn in cartoon protest Hundreds stormed the site in Damascus Syrians have set fire to the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Damascus to protest at the publication of newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Angry protesters attacked the Norwegian mission after storming the Danish site amid chants of "God is great". The cartoons have sparked Muslim outrage across the world, following their publication in a Danish newspaper and reprinting in other European media. Any images of the Prophet are banned under Islamic tradition. Some of the cartoons depict Muhammad as a terrorist. They have prompted diplomatic sanctions, boycotts and death threats in some Arab nations, while some newspapers have defended publication of the images in the name of press freedom. In other developments: Iran says it should consider abandoning commercial and trade deals with countries where the cartoons have appeared The Vatican says the right to freedom of expression does not imply the right to offend religious beliefs UN Secretary General Kofi Annan calls for calm and urges Muslims to accept an apology from the Danish paper that first published the cartoons. 'God is great' Syrians have been staging sit-ins outside the Danish embassy since the row intensified earlier this week, when Damascus recalled its ambassador. On Saturday, hundreds hurled stones and stormed the Danish site, before moving to the nearby Norwegian embassy. "With our blood and souls we defend you, O Prophet of God," they chanted outside the Danish mission. Some removed the Danish flag and replaced it with another reading: "There is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God." The embassy was closed, but it was not immediately clear if it was empty when the protests started, Reuters news agency said. Thick, black smoke rose from the building as firefighters struggled to put out the flames.