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Rantings of a Sandmonkey

Be forewarned: The writer of this blog is an extremely cynical, snarky, pro-US, secular, libertarian, disgruntled sandmonkey. If this is your cup of tea, please enjoy your stay here. If not, please sod off

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Boycott Egypt

Freedom For Egyptians reminded me why the cartoons looked so familiar to me: they were actually printed in the Egyptian Newspaper Al Fagr back in October 2005. I repeat, October 2005, during Ramadan, for all the egyptian muslim population to see, and not a single squeak of outrage was present. Al Fagr isn't a small newspaper either: it has respectable circulation in Egypt, since it's helmed by known Journalist Adel Hamoudah. Looking around in my house I found the copy of the newspaper, so I decided to scan it and present to all of you to see. fagr1-plain Here is the original Frontpage of the Newspaper fagr1 fagr1 Here it is pointing out the date and one of the cartoons. Click on the Smaller one to get a bigger resolution. fagr2-arrows Here are the rest of the cartoons inside of the Newspaper Guess we will have to Boycott Egypt now as well, huh? Now while the arab islamic population was going crazy over the outrage created by their government's media over these cartoons, their governments was benifitting from its people's distraction. The Saudi royal Family used it to distract its people from the outrage over the Hajj stampede. The Jordanian government used it to distract its people from their new minimum wage law demanded by their labor unions. The Syrian Government used it to create secterian division in Lebanon and change the focus on the Harriri murder. And, finally, the Egyptian government is using it to distract us while it passes through the new Judiciary reforms and Social Security Bill- which will cut over $300 million dollars in benefits to some of Egypt's poorest families. But, see, the people were not paying attention, because they were too busy defending the prophet by sending out millions of e-mails and SMS-messages, boycotting cheese and Lego and burning Butter and the danish Flag. Let's not even mention the idiots who went the usual route of "It's a jewish conspiracy", spouted the stupid argument about the Holocaust, or went on a diatribe with the old favorite "There is an organized campaign-headed by the west and the jews- to attack and discredit Islam, and we have to defend it". They proved, once again, that the arab world is retarded and deserves no better than its leaders. Whatever...

403 Comments:

At 2/08/2006 11:51:00 AM, Blogger أحمد said...

together
me and my monkey

let's play dear friend

hahahahahah

 
At 2/08/2006 11:55:00 AM, Blogger The Sandmonkey said...

Eshta ya Basha!

 
At 2/08/2006 11:57:00 AM, Anonymous Erik said...

Sandmonkey - You are my hero!

 
At 2/08/2006 12:00:00 PM, Blogger Crazy Girl said...

ya salam..not Egyptians..noooooo...

Your the bestest Sandmonkey ever...

I will be smiling all day cause of this..

 
At 2/08/2006 12:01:00 PM, Blogger Leilouta said...

Why don't we just boycott every single thing in the world and start living like cavemen and start all over again?

 
At 2/08/2006 12:15:00 PM, Blogger Solomon said...

Oh are you gonna get the hits.

Good find.

 
At 2/08/2006 12:31:00 PM, Blogger Crazy Girl said...

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At 2/08/2006 12:33:00 PM, Blogger Crazy Girl said...

Ok in all seriousness now.. I thought that this shouldn't have been reprinted because of how disrespectful it was.. I thought this was a disgrace to Islam..Why would any Egyptian newspaper reprint something like this get away with it.. As a Muslim girl I am offended..How dare they dishonor my prophet..Its bad enough the Infidels and the Jews disrespect my great religion how dare the Egyptians my own people reprint such horror.. I demand and apology..I want the person that reprinted this killed immediately..Hang him in the middle of Midan Tharir while your on it blow up the whole building that the newspaper was printed in anyone that works there and doesn't quit is a sell out and a traitor kill em I say!...I want a boycott on all Egyptian Cotton and anything else Egyptian..I'm throwing out my sheets as we speak...I'm so ashamed.. How dare they...

If Mubarak doesn't give and official apology I want something done with him..Oh the horror...

Can I get some stock on Egyptian flags?I think some of them need burning in the near future..:P

 
At 2/08/2006 12:35:00 PM, Blogger Crazy Girl said...

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At 2/08/2006 12:35:00 PM, Blogger Tomodachi said...

What a fantastic find!

I can't wait till this one spreads.

I give it an hour or two in the blog world and a day for the mainstream media to catch up.

 
At 2/08/2006 12:38:00 PM, Blogger Mr Holger said...

I'll be damned!

 
At 2/08/2006 12:56:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank goodness for sandmonkeys in Egypt. Thats all I say.

 
At 2/08/2006 12:59:00 PM, Blogger عبدالله النديم said...

tamam ya afendam 3olem we nofez
http://nadimyat.blogspot.com/2006/02/blog-post_113943230280788611.html

 
At 2/08/2006 01:01:00 PM, Blogger chiara said...

dear sandmonkey,

it is really interesting to read your post. Thankfully there are blogs to get information.

Cheers frorm the UK

 
At 2/08/2006 01:17:00 PM, Blogger Kat said...

Heh...did you see where one of the alleged "pictures" came from?

http://www.neandernews.com/?p=54

It was a french pig squeeling contest and somebody sent a faxed copy of a clown doing a pig interpretation to the Imams saying it was a picture of Mohammed as a pig.

It just keeps getting better.

 
At 2/08/2006 01:28:00 PM, Blogger Mark Murphy said...

Congrats on the LGF link...

 
At 2/08/2006 01:29:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Like the previous poster wrote, thank goodness for weblogs. Nice job, sandmonkey.

 
At 2/08/2006 01:30:00 PM, Blogger Jimmy said...

Hey Sandmonkey, why don't you try to translate some of the Arabic written article so that the pictures published in the (unknown) newspaper be put in correct context??

 
At 2/08/2006 01:31:00 PM, Anonymous Mike said...

Sandmonkey....you ROCK!!! Thank god there are people like you living in this world...RESPECT!!!

Cheers from Prague!

 
At 2/08/2006 01:31:00 PM, Anonymous Mohamed said...

Oops.

 
At 2/08/2006 01:34:00 PM, Blogger Conan said...

Holy smoking gun, Batman! This is great. Good work!!!

 
At 2/08/2006 01:40:00 PM, Blogger Jeffrey said...

Sandmonkey,

I guess it took them a few months of waiting for the SHIPMENT OF DANISH FLAGS to arrive.

How can you have a con-FLAG-ration without a FLAG?

I hope you noticed that there were no Danish effigies.

I read that there was a problem with the shipment.

I can imagine a monk in Tibet unpacking an effigy of the Danish Queen and saying, "WTF!"

DHL or else!

*

 
At 2/08/2006 01:51:00 PM, Blogger Egypeter said...

This really really sucks!!

Does this mean I have to boycott Molokhaya????? Never!!

 
At 2/08/2006 01:58:00 PM, Blogger Krystalline Apostate said...

sandmonkey:
I'd actually read that the Danes had published the cartoons in Sept. 2005.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-real-truth-behind-the-cartoons-fury/2006/02/08/1139379569017.html
"The Danish cartoons only sparked some mild complaints when they first appeared last September."
& the US State Dept. is blaming it on Syria & Iran:
http://sify.com/news/international/fullstory.php?id=14137193
At which I roll my eyes.
My govt. is so full of twits & idiots, it's embarassing.

As to my nick:
It never occurred to me, when I became the reluctant atheist, that anyone would start referring to me as 'RA'.
So apologies if anyone has the wrong idea about me.

 
At 2/08/2006 02:03:00 PM, Blogger Yazan said...

Brilliant, Absolutly brilliant...

 
At 2/08/2006 02:05:00 PM, Blogger Yaakov Kirschen said...

SandMonkey, you're the greatest!
I'll be linking to this incredible post of yours tomorrow. Thanks for doing what you do. you hold out hope for our region.

Shalom Salaam Peace,
Dry Bones
Israel's Political comic Strip since 1973

 
At 2/08/2006 02:06:00 PM, Blogger egyptiansally said...

but because it was in an egyptian newspaper it was okay to reprint because they were lambasting the cartoons instead of lauding free speech? isn't reprinting still showing drawings of the prophet and therefore still *haram* cause there's still the fear of idolatry?

 
At 2/08/2006 02:06:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

wHY ARE YOU PEOPLE SO STUPID.....STOP WITH THIS NONSENSE AND GET ON WITH YOUR LIVES.LEAVE THE DANES ALONE!!! i NEVER SAW SUCH CLOSED MINDEDNESS....YOU PEOPLE ARE LOSERS...

 
At 2/08/2006 02:14:00 PM, Blogger http://www.gardjola.org/ said...

Brilliant find Sandmonkey,

we bloggers should do our best to spread this - the mainstream media will ignore it if they can.

Deepdiver

 
At 2/08/2006 02:14:00 PM, Blogger The Sandmonkey said...

Sally, isn't that the perfect little question? LOL

And can I mention again that it was during Ramadan and nothing happend? Cause, like, I can't stress that enough!

 
At 2/08/2006 02:25:00 PM, Anonymous Angie said...

Dear Editor of the Sandmonkey blog:

This is my first letter of complaint to your fine publication, and I mean no disrespect but me and the boys just had to write in to protest:

This is just getting too easy.

You know, the boys and me started this whole thing in the back of Bud's Bar one day, where a bunch of us were sitting around spitting tobacco and cheating at poker.

Uncle Sam threw down his cards in disgust and said..." I'm sick of doing this every Saturday Night, let's do something different. Let's get a bunch of Muslim Extremists all riled up!

So the whole thing began...Usama, the wars...you know the drill.

WELL, it's just TOO easy! PLEASE! Make it just a little hard!

Make us work for it, DAMMIT!

We don't want to just limp on with the old "Look at that" to get the Extremists to look any direction we want them to so we can sucker punch them! Or take them out to the boonies one night with a flashlight so they can go "snipe" hunting. Or just resort to sneaking up them and give them a gigantic wedgie so they go berserk, run out, burn, trample and shoot each other in rabid rage.

When Erik Dane told us he wanted to publish a bunch of cartoons in his newspaper to get 'em riled...why we laughed him right outta there!

Snorted right at him! Hrr Hrr Hrr!

"Jesus, you're dumb" we said..."nobody's gonna get mad about a bunch of dumba** cartoons!"

We even pulled his free pass to Friday Night Bingo at the Rod and Gun Club.

Damned if those Extremists didn't leave the gang eatin' crow and Erik having a horse laff riot!

We got some self-respect!

So if the Extremists can't give us a little sport...well, me and the boys are gonna be lookin' to take our business elsewhere!

Respectfully (but not backing down),

Buzz, Sam, Bob, Mack, Pyle and Erik (yeah, he made us let him back in the club)

 
At 2/08/2006 02:25:00 PM, Anonymous le conservateur said...

super great job ! congrats

 
At 2/08/2006 02:44:00 PM, Anonymous Anat from Israel said...

Great work, Sandmonkey.
Thanks.

 
At 2/08/2006 02:47:00 PM, Anonymous jamal said...

Apparantly you guys havnt read this

 
At 2/08/2006 03:07:00 PM, Blogger W said...

I read the Juan Cole piece. Why is he making the case that Saudi Arabia can be proven not to be inflaming the situation when I have never heard that argument until now, and I've been listening to a lot of sources.

I just heard the Syria/Iran theory yesterday on a blog or two, and then today from Condoleza Rice.

Juan Cole seems to be practicing misdirection. His argument sums up to be: "Theories that Syria/Iran have anything to do with inflaming the situation are false because, as I you can see here, Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with it!! It's so simple!"


Being as how we're all being taught to respect Islam & learn all the ins & outs of practicing it to prevent offense, I'd like for someone to tell me the teaching on publishing these cartoons during Ramadan by what I'm guessing is Muslim owned newspaper.

 
At 2/08/2006 03:17:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Its a great thing that we no longer have to rely on large newspapers and TV networks for information

 
At 2/08/2006 03:30:00 PM, Blogger Michael said...

You're very wise!
If you ever go to visit Denmark I'll buy you dinner at a restaurant of your choice!

 
At 2/08/2006 03:36:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Er...
with all due respect to the muslim peoples...
WHY should non muslims be respectful of a prophet THEY do not believe in????

How can we respect a religion that goes ape-sh*t every freeking 2 weeks and threatens to blow everything up??? (and denies the holocaust!!!)

I mean nothing personal, but I was raised Christian, and even tho' I'm not a church going fella right now, I know my history and there is no way I believe that the same angel (gabriel) went to Mary, proclaimed the birth of the son of God who fulfilled every prophesy regarding Christ, and then up and changed his mind 5 hundred years later and went to some arab and denied the whole incarnation!!! (hay...I'm a good suthern baptist boy...I paid attention some)

of course I'm anonymous, these people are insane!!!

 
At 2/08/2006 03:45:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i dearly hope that sandmonkey , or anyone reading this blog, has made the danish government aware of this.

 
At 2/08/2006 03:48:00 PM, Blogger Laban said...

Juan Cole is a Juan Kerr. He forgot to mention the riot in Aarhus.

I think it was probably the 'extra' cartoons that did the damage. The ones the Danish imams found under a gooseberry bush.

Thanks SM for this post.

 
At 2/08/2006 03:56:00 PM, Blogger Steve said...

do they read newspapers during Ramadam?

 
At 2/08/2006 04:00:00 PM, Blogger sheen said...

damn...will have to give up Stella too.. sigh

 
At 2/08/2006 04:00:00 PM, Blogger deoda2006 said...

علي قد ما شعرت بالحزن من التصرف الغريب للصحيفه الدنماركيه علي قد ما شعرت بالاسف علي شعوبنا .مما فعلوه وكانت صور الحرائق في السفارات تملا الشاشات الفضائيه.كان من الممكن ان نتصرف باسلوب حضاري بدلا من السباب والشتائم ولغه التدمير التي جعلتنا اشبه بالهمج وليس بأناس متحضرين يعلموا كيف يردوا علي الاهانه باسلوب يجذب المتعاطفين معنا من الغرب بدلا من تنفيرهم جميعا منا.

 
At 2/08/2006 04:02:00 PM, Anonymous Jeremy said...

Good for them. It's sad to see people get so upset over a cartoon anyway. Yeah, let's kill people over a cartoon. I swear the stupidity is unnerving sometimes.

 
At 2/08/2006 04:04:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

SM...You just got instalaunched!

 
At 2/08/2006 04:07:00 PM, Blogger Maya's Mom said...

The TRUTH is out there, and you've found part of it! Keep up the good work, Sandmonkey!

 
At 2/08/2006 04:15:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

All of the newspapers that won't print the cartoons can surely now print the picture of the cartoons in an Egyptian newspaper. Can't they?

 
At 2/08/2006 04:17:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good work man.

This simply shows the manipulation of islamic leaders. As a French man, and as
a defendor of freedom and liberty of speech, I totally feel interdependent of Danish people. We shall not accept that untolerant Islamic beliefs be imposed to every one included our free countries.

Muhammad advocated violence and you can find calls to murder in the name of Islam in the Coran. A catholic preast was assasinated in Turkey by a 16 muslim boy yelling "Allah wakbar" because of the caricatures. This real martyrdom not your fanatic suicide bombers!!!!

 
At 2/08/2006 04:43:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well sankmonkey, you posted the pictures too, we have to boycott your blog now as well lol.
The funny thing is people didn't boycott except Danish goods because they are few, if they're serious about it they should boycott all European goods, we'll see how they can survive that!!!

 
At 2/08/2006 04:48:00 PM, Blogger elengil said...

Well sankmonkey, you posted the pictures too, we have to boycott your blog now as well lol.

Oh no!!! You're right! DAMMIT!

*sigh*

LOL look how many freakin people are linkin to your post though!

*stares in awe*

 
At 2/08/2006 04:48:00 PM, Anonymous Mohamed said...

By the way, hypocricy goes both ways, the guardian published an article on Monday about the same paper (yes the same exact hysterical defender of free speech) refusing to publish some cartoons three years ago citing they'd be insulting to christians and would be considered as unneccessary provocation.
here's the link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1703501,00.html

I really wonder if anyone of the respondents above is going to gloat and drool over the hypocricy of the danish newspaper as much as they did with egyptian one.
Somehow I'm almost certain most of them will try to rationalize an excuse.

 
At 2/08/2006 04:49:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"i dearly hope that sandmonkey , or anyone reading this blog, has made the danish government aware of this."

I did!!!
Plus all danish newspapers!

Regards
eyvind dk

 
At 2/08/2006 04:59:00 PM, Blogger elengil said...

Somehow I'm almost certain most of them will try to rationalize an excuse.

You forgot to mention that the same paper has contacted Iran in an effort to publish their cartoons that will bein their contest on holocaust denial.


I will say this in the paper's defense, three years ago, they probably had a different editor.

Otherwise, hypocricy certainly knowns no bounds eh? Everyone's in on it. It's a freakin CONSPIRACY!

Anyway. I'd wonder if the cartoons depicting Jesus weren't JUST A BIT more insulting than the ones depicting Mohammad that apparently on one really got upset about until it was politically advantageous.

So, to recap:

Hipocricy on all sides:

* Muslims post disgustingly insulting cartoons all the time
* Muslims didn't give a rip when the Egyptian paper reprinted the Danish cartoons a few months ago.
* The same paper than printed those Danish cartoons didn't print Jesus cartoons a few years ago.
* The same paper is now seeking out the holocaust cartoons that will be in the Iranian contest.

As I said, unless you can prove it was the same editor *and* that the cartoons of Jesus were on par (not significantly worse than) but on par with the Mohammad cartoons, then yes I'll say it may have been on the hypocritical side but not really proving of much.

 
At 2/08/2006 05:00:00 PM, Anonymous Topmmy G said...

First, and without reservation, thanks you. This is "Rather"-esque in it's proportions, and validates the worth of the whole global media 'net endeavor.

However, where are the truly dark cynics to ask this:

What if Sandmonkey photoshopped his whole piece? Ask yourself: How would you know?

"knock, knock, neo..."

 
At 2/08/2006 05:21:00 PM, Anonymous jamal said...

Juan Cole actually makes good points in charting the issue.

The point was that sandmonkey's article a bit misrepresenting.

It refers to them being publish in egypt in October 2005, but the original publishing of them in Denmark on 30 September 2005 by Jyllands-Postenseptember pre-dates this

 
At 2/08/2006 05:23:00 PM, Blogger Krishna109 said...

Great job, Sandmonkey! :-)

Actually, one of the most fascinating aspects of this is how, in almost every paper here (the U.S.) they self-righteously proclaim "pictures of Mohammed are absolutely forbidden in Islam"-- or words to that effect. Then they go on to say how they are for free speech, of course-- but that the right to free speech doesn't extend to to publishing anything that may "upset" people.

What a bunch of morons!!!

As far as I know, almost all papers in the entire US have refused to print the cartoons. (I believe only 2 have so far).

No wonder more and more people are turning away from newspaper & TV news, and looking in the blogosphere to see what's really happening . . .

 
At 2/08/2006 05:25:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yasmina said: How dare they dishonor my prophet..Its bad enough the Infidels and the Jews disrespect my great religion".

See, that's just it Yasmina, IT'S NOT OUR PROPHET, IT'S YOURS! What part of that don't you understand?

 
At 2/08/2006 05:28:00 PM, Blogger Brian Smaller said...

I guess we have to chant "Death to Egypt" now? Isn't that how this sort of thing is normally handled?

 
At 2/08/2006 05:30:00 PM, Blogger Crazy Girl said...

umm that was me making fun out what was going on..it was me mocking the crap that they say about the jews and the infidels..I already know that!!

 
At 2/08/2006 05:36:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love your site sandmonkey. Please keep up the good work exposing the hypocracy.
Very suspicious false outrage for such a ridiculous set of cartoons.

 
At 2/08/2006 05:44:00 PM, Blogger Gateway Pundit said...

Sandmonkey! Fantastic job! Congrats to you and Freedom for Egyptians!

 
At 2/08/2006 05:49:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Major league expose, Sam. I'm seeing, I'm seeing, hmmmmm a career in investigative journalism for Sam aka Sandmonkey. A Pulitzer, even.

Bridget

 
At 2/08/2006 05:51:00 PM, Anonymous JohninLondon said...

I have never seen this site before. I may never visit again.

But you seem to have NAILED THE LIES. NAILED THE UTTER SICK HYPOCRISY of the Middle East.

It is time we woke up and realised that many of these imams and their flocks HATE us, that they will use any tactic to stir up more hatred, more violence.

This is a Dan Rather moment.

Good luck. Within days, the whole damn world will be visiting your site.

 
At 2/08/2006 05:54:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Laban, "Juan Cole is a Juan Kerr"

HAHAHAHAHAHA very funny.

Bridget

 
At 2/08/2006 06:20:00 PM, Blogger Charles Martel said...

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At 2/08/2006 06:22:00 PM, Blogger Charles Martel said...

the whole episode is "the shot that was heard around the world" as applied to Islam - 9/11 didnt do it. a bunch of cartoons did.

now the whole western world really knows how idiotic islam is. this is the start of the end of islam - and by god, will it come crashing down as much as the berlin wall came crashing down. it is a fraud, as much as communism was a fraud.

and , in advance, i welcome our newly liberated Arab friends. for once you are free of the shackles of islam, we can deal each with other as human beings once again.

 
At 2/08/2006 06:23:00 PM, Blogger programmer craig said...

Does Egypt have an embassy in Denmark? Just wondering...

 
At 2/08/2006 06:27:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I feel that I am dreaming. I am so glad that I found this blog and have the opportunity to meet fellow Egyptians who match my views

 
At 2/08/2006 06:40:00 PM, Blogger ChristianWarrior said...

Nice work Sandmonkey. The word is preading like a prairie fire!

Mr. Shreds
Colorado, USA

 
At 2/08/2006 06:41:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amazing find, good job. Hopefully this will discredit some of the governments that have been using this scandal to cover up their own inability to govern.

 
At 2/08/2006 06:48:00 PM, Blogger Crazy Girl said...

Actually there is an Egyptian Embassy in Denmark but I believe they closed it to protest the cartoons..Ironic huh? Here is the link to the
Egyptian Embassy in Denmark..

 
At 2/08/2006 07:19:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Six Days (www.sixdaysmore.blogspot.com)

SD, this is bigger than Dan Rather. You may have just scored the biggest blogsosphere coup ever! Unfortunately, the scalp you just got was that of the entire Muslim world's.
When this gets out it will put Murbarak and co. in a very uncomfortable situation. The Jordanian precendent is an interesting one to examine in this regard. More can be expected in Egypt. I fear for the editors of the Egyptian paper more than I fear for those brave souls who were arrested in Jordan recently.
And I fear for you SD so take care. You may have to leave the country, you may just have fired the shot heard around the Muslim world, and made Murbarak look like a right twat before his fellow Arab leaders. This in not good for his already shaky position, and he will not want more of the same. The Egyptian blogosphere may be headed for a rather nasty crackdown.
Be safe, be well, take care and make sure there are people who expect to hear from you regularly, and are prepared to issue statements on your behalf if you are no longer heard.
Do not go the way of Karfan...

Shalom,

Six Days.

 
At 2/08/2006 08:04:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can you advertise this link please?
http://new.petitiononline.com/namazie/petition.html

 
At 2/08/2006 08:09:00 PM, Blogger Meg Q said...

jamal -
"Juan Cole actually makes good points in charting the issue.

The point was that sandmonkey's article a bit misrepresenting.

It refers to them being publish in egypt in October 2005, but the original publishing of them in Denmark on 30 September 2005 by Jyllands-Postenseptember pre-dates this"

Um, what did Sandmonkey misrepresent? His point is that these cartoons were published IN EGYPT immediately FOLLOWING their publication in Denmark (no conflict with your final paragraph above, right?), and there was no conflagration in the streets, no "Death to Denmark", "Death to the Cartoonists", SMS-enabled protests, etc. Nope. It was all chillax. The cartoons are (again, let me restate this) published in an Egyptian newspaper in Oct 2005, no jihad announced, no fatwa pronounced. BUT the s**t gets stirred at a propitious moment in January 2006, and all of a sudden it's "Boycott Denmark", burn the flag of Denmark (one of the most painfully tolerant countries in the world), riots, etc. It's just kinda -- weird.

Another problem is that Mr. Cole does not, as we say in America, know his rear end from his elbow.

 
At 2/08/2006 08:12:00 PM, Blogger Meg Q said...

P.S. Sandmonkey, if you need to skip the country, we have a nice air mattress in a spare bedroom in Alberta, Canada -- good asylum laws here too. Though maybe some of your new Euro readers might be closer . . .

 
At 2/08/2006 08:17:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wonder if Syria and Iran are boycotting Danish and EU aid money as well?
Interesting read here. Thanx

 
At 2/08/2006 08:58:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Too funny.

 
At 2/08/2006 09:13:00 PM, Blogger a guy in pajamas said...

Great job!

As for hypocrisy:

"By the way, hypocricy goes both ways, the guardian published an article on Monday about the same paper (yes the same exact hysterical defender of free speech) refusing to publish some cartoons three years ago citing they'd be insulting to christians and would be considered as unneccessary provocation."

Completely different situation. First, the Christians weren't threatening free speach. The Jyllands-Posten editor made it very clear the Muhammed cartoons were published to test the boundaries, to see if, after the murder of Theo van Gogh for making a film that attacked Islam, Denmark was still free.

Second, a great many newspapers and magazines in the West have already published cartoons lampooning and insulting Jesus, Christianity and Christians. It's been done; it is, in fact, cliche, which is about the same in the publishing world as not being halal, eh?

 
At 2/08/2006 09:39:00 PM, Anonymous JohnL said...

Another problem is that Mr. Cole does not, as we say in America, know his rear end from his elbow.

You mean his ass from his elbow.... It's okay, you can say it; this isn't the BBC.

 
At 2/08/2006 09:47:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is the view of me and not the entire USA, this blog is meant for terrorists and people who are blind and don't think, yes people this is a rant. I have to say, anyone who is offended by this has got to shut up and actually think, why the heck should a person be killed by a cartoon.. Come on... you have to boycott products of different countires because of a cartoon!?! Be that way then... As an American I can tell you that only 2 newspapers in the US has even published this cartoon, Islam allows "PeaceFul" demonstrations not violence, this just shows that no one can fully trust anyone in the Middle-East if all they do is just blow sh!t up and claim a Jihad for what happened to SOMEONE ELSE... Jihad this.. Jihad that, I'm getting tired of this crap, everyday all I hear is that one "suicide bomber" blew a truck just to kill 4 other people who didn't even do a dang thing to him, and what the heck is with this if you go and kill yourself by way of Suicide Bombing that you get virgins in heaven? hardly anyone on this planet is a virgin man... I don't think you can just spawn a 20 year old virgin who already has her legs open, and besides... isn't it like against Islam for you take a woman to bed if your not married? lol wtf is up with you guys?? if your mad about a bunch of dumb DRAWINGS then tell us, not throw stones at everything you see. and why the heck are they directing anger towards my country? We aren't the "Leader" of Europe nor are we the "Leader" of the Infidels, is everything an infidel to you people? I mean... killing someone because of a drawing is called Murder man... not a fuking Jihad. Go ahead and boycott Egyptian and Denmark goods, it'll just hurt your economy and make you want to blow up more shit in the end. and never call the USA Tyrants, we just had an industry since our "Industrial Age" and just had major debts by various countries from WWII that had to be paid off. YES we DID become a SUPER POWER in 4 yrs, stop whining about it, everyone broke their backs just to get this far, and so didn't your country, we just got "Lucky". if your still "Jealous" move to the US then. don't want too? then shut up! No the USA is NOT saying that Iran, Syria or any other dang country is up to sh!t by making this whole Cartoon thing out of control, we said we think "Terrorist Organizations" might be up to something, but we have to see who is. you people think I'm arrogant? good, if you hate me good. then you just hate every dang bit of me, my ancestors came from England, Germany, Italy, Scottland and Ireland, go ahead and hate them too, you'll just find out that you made an even worse enemy. Your still mad? Think again, you people burn every countries flag and no one has burned yours, we take your slander your suicide bombings we take your stupidity and IF we did burn your flag you'd all go ape-Sh!t and blow more sh!t up, believe me, if we didn't want to take any of your crap, your country would be the WORLDS parking lot right now. No one hates you, we just hate how you act and think stop this nonsense and look at how people look at your religion now. Sand Monkey awesome find, I can see this on CNN in a few days, I've sent this to their e-mail address. and please, don't delete or move this post, let people read and make their own opinions, even if they are mad about what I have typed. Egypt and Denmark, you are both Pioneers as of this moment, it's something the World even the USA should learn from.

 
At 2/08/2006 09:48:00 PM, Blogger Andy Dabydeen said...

Great find! Now I wonder what the excuses are going to be ...

 
At 2/08/2006 10:48:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey couldn't of said it better myself. I live in Australia and it is the same here as well. Can't muslims resolve things peacefully without going of there brain, wanting to kill. We don't live in a world of murder and oppression anymore, the world in governed by laws and a mutual respect for society. Furthermore, apparently Islam is supposed to be a peaceful religion. I don't see anything peaceful in what the Mulim world wide community is doing.

 
At 2/08/2006 11:10:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

How nice, another weak link. I appreciate you telling the truth to the Muslims in your community but you will be of no use to them seeing as how you shill for their enemies. IT is true that they will never love you until you become them. They will not allow you to be "extremely cynical", "snarky", "secualur", "libertarian" or "disgruntled" about their prophets and religion but they can certianly come here to insult the dishonor those of your people. So long as you keep with their line you will be fine. I hope you will not cross it, or you will be in their waste basket where you belong.

 
At 2/08/2006 11:19:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

More power to your pen sandmonkey. I shall burn a flag in your honour while ranting and raging like a moron.

 
At 2/08/2006 11:56:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You rule!!!
(Tibi, Romania)

 
At 2/09/2006 12:19:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

See http://indspeak.wordpress.com/ encouraging an email comapign to aljazeera to try and get them to print this story.

It would be great if the average Arab actually learned of this hypocracy (sp?)

 
At 2/09/2006 01:01:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is it Al Fagr or El Fagr (www.elfarg.org)?
Just asking?

 
At 2/09/2006 01:35:00 AM, Anonymous Lukas said...

Your post has been printed in an Belgian newspaper... I hope you won't riot about that ;)

URL is http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF09022006_010

Greetz from Belgium.

Lukas

 
At 2/09/2006 01:46:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

sandmonkey,

maybe you'll find that interesting:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8959820

the foto of barrot was misused by danish islamic societys ahmad akkari, who claimed it was one of those cartoons of the prophet (pbuh).

 
At 2/09/2006 01:49:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I saw your site on a Belgian newspaper. http://www.nieuwsblad.be
I hope your action will be noticed by all the fools who are attacking attakking ambassy's. Nice job!!!

Regards from Belgium

Hans

 
At 2/09/2006 01:55:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can someone inform the newest islamist in Egypt Shiekh AMR ADIB,
whom I think is the instigator of the reaction in Egypt.

 
At 2/09/2006 02:27:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

who wants to kill someone just because he expressed his views (even if they hurt others). It may hurts you, but doesn't hurst someone else. So it's subjective, and if 1 person can decide that this person did something that deserves that we kill him, where are we then? dark cave time; in this way, everyone may have a point killing his neighbourg because he thinks and is convinced that he did something wrong to him!! If for some drawings you're making a hisotry, what about Da Vinci Code? the Church objected, but didn't emit a fatwa to kill Dan Brown, or to burn the editor house, or to censure the book, etc. It marked it's opposition, peacfully, rigourously, but that's it. Italy didn't boycott US products nor burned US interest worldwide. It's so narrow-minded.

 
At 2/09/2006 02:35:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great stuff Sandmonkey. Loved reading it. Not because this gives me as a European any right to insult the prophet. But this says that if a major Egyptian newspaper cannot get it right. Who can expect European newspapers to see the "insult" in printing the cartoons.

 
At 2/09/2006 02:45:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why is this not covered by Al Jazeera.

 
At 2/09/2006 03:20:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I guess it's only a horrible sin if it's published in a WESTERN newspaper.

 
At 2/09/2006 03:47:00 AM, Blogger Jason_Pappas said...

Excellent find. Bravo. The press in the West is so ignorant of Islam and Arab culture. This doesn't surprise me.

 
At 2/09/2006 03:47:00 AM, Anonymous stiennon said...

Sand monkey: You represent the best of the blog space. This type of exposure of the world's stupidity is what millions of independant publishers is all about.

 
At 2/09/2006 03:52:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I forwarded your link to all danish news papers.
Hopefully the story breaks.
Thanks for your effort sand monkey

From a danish visitor.

 
At 2/09/2006 03:53:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

All the hype over a few cartoons!!! State controlled mid-eastislamic newspapers have been publishing radically anti-american, anti-western and particularly anti-israel and anti-jewish cartoons for years... a taste of their own medicine is well due. (for an example of muslim anti-everythingbutmuslim cartoons search on google 1967 6 day war nasser cartoons etc)

 
At 2/09/2006 03:56:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i agree... cartoons like this one that only represent recent events should definitely be permitted in the media

 
At 2/09/2006 04:30:00 AM, Anonymous Anitaly said...

Thank you. How did egyptian newspaper comment the cartoons? Would you be so kind to translate, please?
Un saluto dall'Italia
Anna

 
At 2/09/2006 04:48:00 AM, Anonymous Bassem said...

Seriously SandMonkey, translate the paper cuttings you copied? Tell you what, I'll translate it if you refuse to!
The paper is basically reporting on the event. It is stating literally "the vile act still continues" (al waka7a mustamera). The paper by no means is showing the images for the heck of it, it is showing them to the Muslim readers as a proof of what's going on in Europe.

SandMonkey, I'm guessing you're probably a Christian Egyptian, but at least have some respect to your Muslim Arab brothers that live with you everyday in Egypt. Don't post things out of context and use the ignorance of the westerner in the Arabic language to push a false point.

Syrian in the UK

 
At 2/09/2006 05:00:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

to Bassem
but the point is, an egyptian paper printed the cartoons MONTHS ago.. how come its such a big deal NOW?

 
At 2/09/2006 05:12:00 AM, Blogger The Sandmonkey said...

Bassem, first of all: Thanks for the translation. I would have also included the title on the first page: "Cartoons used to mock the Prophet and his wives". This is the only way to ensure I don't "mislead" my readers in any way.

Second of all, I am not a christian. I am a muslim who has had it up to hear with the irrational emotional knee-jerk reactions the world muslim community continues taking. And contrary to your belief, just because I don't agree with you on something, doesn't make me a christian. But weak criticism tactic if it was true btw. Very weak.

Third of all, where did I put things out of context exactly? The Newspaper did publish the cartoons, no? Isn't this whole outrage about how it's forbidden for the newspapers to publish the cartoons because Islam forbids any kind of image to be made of Mohamed, let alone an offensive one? How it's haram to include his pic in the newspaper no matter in what context that may be? Isn;t that why the jordanian editor got arrested, and the french editor got fired? Well, my friend, Al Fagr didn;t care about that, and they published the cartoons during Ramadan nonetheless. You think that's something those people who are rioting because drawing the prophet in sacriligious would approve of? Didn;t think so.

So, where, exactly, did I used the ignorance of the westerner of the arabic language to push a false point ya zalamah? Or were you just making an ass out of yourself for no reason?

 
At 2/09/2006 05:14:00 AM, Blogger The Sandmonkey said...

*up to here

 
At 2/09/2006 05:25:00 AM, Anonymous Ayala (Israel) said...

well guys this is all great, sandmonkey youre the best, and I'm saying that only because it is so good to see someone like you rising against hypocracy of the muslim world.
first, let me say that by all means I think islamic so-called rage is not justified by HUMAN values, and personally I think this ordeal is just an excuse for rioting and breaking all hell lose, and also for political reasons of mustering up fundementalist groups all around the world in order to polerize muslim and western nations.
however - this news paper you've scanned is without any date on it, and the writing in it clearly refers to the "Jyllands-posten" incident, and the name of the Danish paper is mentioned.
Even without this post - absurdity and shere evil in the muslim rhetorics and actions is more than enough, but I simply had to say something about it.
keep up the good work and never give up to ignorance.
Amit.

 
At 2/09/2006 05:37:00 AM, Anonymous Dog of Temple said...

Only proves the incoherence of islamic fanatics that have nuttin else better to do than judge franctically before looking at themselves first...

Great post sandmonkey, very interesting and revealing.

 
At 2/09/2006 05:49:00 AM, Anonymous erik said...

waddayouknow.

The newspaper removed that issue from their website. :-)

Makes you think.....

 
At 2/09/2006 05:50:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Awesome! This should be passed on to as many media as possible.

 
At 2/09/2006 05:51:00 AM, Anonymous Elora said...

Amazing...

Great, great post Sandmonkey. People like you make the world a little more sensible.

 
At 2/09/2006 05:55:00 AM, Anonymous AGA said...

For the record, the context of the publication of the cartoons in the Egytian paper was obvious even without the translation, at least to this American. The point appears to be that you can publish the cartoons to explain your rage or criticm of the Denmark paper's decision to publish, but if you (as in Jordan) publish the cartoons and ask people to stop and think, then off to jail you go.