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[NMLUG] Fun with google!
Hmm....
do they use Linux?
bowmarbrain@netscape.net wrote:
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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:
>
> >Folks:
> >
> >You gotta try this -------------
> >
> >
> > http://www.swcp.com/~mwfolsom/images/baby_jesus01.jpg
> >
> >
> >
> >http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2005_12_25_patriotboy_archive.html#113550
> 354713604817
> >
> >
> >Michael
> >____________
> > >
>
> 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
>
> --
>
> 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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