[NMLUG] Fun with google!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Valentin Guillen <usenet1@myrealbox.com>
To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List <nmlug@nmlug.org>
Sent: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:11:26 -0700
Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fun with google!

   Michael W. Folsom wrote:?
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 >Folks:?
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 >You gotta try this -------------?
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 > http://www.swcp.com/~mwfolsom/images/baby_jesus01.jpg?
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 >http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2005_12_25_patriotboy_archive.html#113550
354713604817?
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 >Michael?
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  While I consider myself a religious person, I'll have to admit, 
Michael that these links caused me more than a hearty 
chuckle.....indeed, I was busting at the seams.....:^))?

 Thanks for making my day!?
?
 Valentin?

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Perhaps you all should get some courage and try your brand of "humor" 
out by ridiculing another major religion's sacred:

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006

GAZA CITY - Armed militants angered by a cartoon drawing of the Prophet 
Muhammad published in European media surrounded EU offices in Gaza on 
Thursday and threatened to kidnap foreigners as outrage over the 
caricatures spread across the Islamic world.

Foreign journalists, diplomats and aid workers began leaving Gaza as 
gunmen there threatened to kidnap citizens of France, Norway, Denmark 
and Germany unless those governments apologize for the cartoon.

In Paris, the daily newspaper France Soir fired its managing editor 
after it republished the caricatures Wednesday, and Pakistani 
protesters chanting "Death to France!"

Gunmen in the West Bank city of Nablus entered four hotels to search 
for foreigners to abduct, and they warned hotel owners not to host 
citizens from several European countries. Gunmen said they were also 
searching apartments in Nablus for Europeans.

Militants in Gaza said they would shut down media offices from France, 
Norway, Denmark and Germany, singling out the French news agency Agence 
France Presse.

"Any citizens of these countries, who are present in Gaza, will put 
themselves in danger," a Fatah-affiliated gunman said as he stood 
outside the EU Commission's office in Gaza. He was flanked by two 
masked men holding up their rifles.

If the European governments don't apologize by Thursday evening, "any 
visitor of these countries will be targeted," he said.

The furor over the drawings, which first ran in a Danish paper in 
September, cuts to the question of which is more sacred in the Western 
world - freedom of expression or respect for religious beliefs. The 
cartoons include an image of Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb 
with a burning fuse.

Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the prophet to prevent 
idolatry. The drawings have divided opinion within Europe and the 
Middle East, where they have prompted boycotts of Danish goods, bomb 
threats and demonstrations against Danish facilities.

France Soir and several other European papers reprinted the drawings in 
a show of solidarity with the Danish daily.

Foreign journalists were pulling out of Gaza on Thursday, and foreign 
media organizations were canceling plans to send more people in.




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