Clinton urges EU to convict publishers of Mohammad caricatures

Posted on February 18, 2006

ISLAMABAD: Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday condemned the publication of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) caricatures by European newspapers and urged countries concerned to convict the publishers.

Talking to reporters after meeting Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in Islamabad, Clinton said he disagreed with the caricatures and that the publication was against religious and ethical norms. Clinton said he had no objection to peaceful demonstrations being held worldwide, but this was not the time for violence. He said it was the time to promote inter-faith harmony and stand together on the issue.

He said the people’s religious convictions should be respected at all costs and the media should be disallowed to play with the religious sentiments of other faiths. He said the media could criticise any issue including governments and people, but nobody had the right to play with the sentiments of other faiths.

Nobody? Nobody has this right? Amazingly, we are praising the ACLU today for taking the exact opposite viewpoint on this. This could get very confusing for Democrats on where to stand on this issue. Yes, freedom of speech does give one the right to say whatever one likes about another’s religion. Clinton, however seems to believe that our rights should be stripped away in the name of “peace” and “tolerance”. What a dangerous and chilling sentiment. Clinton needs to get a clue.

Mark in Mexico says to approach this with caution. The reports and translations could be wrong, as some are not corraborating with other sources. He may not have said that they should be convicted. It is possible that when he said, “religious convictions” should be respected, that it was garballed in translation. However, if he said that media shouldn’t have the right to freely express things about religion, he is still on the wrong side of the issue, and is nothing more than a dhimmi. Many, however are doubting the accuracy of this, it could very well be a spreading lie in the Pakastanit newspaper. Keep your eye on this.

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2 Responses to “Clinton urges EU to convict publishers of Mohammad caricatures”

LomaAlta on February 18th, 2006 7:51 pm

History will show, that from the day he took office, President Clinton was on the wrong side of Western civilization against radical Muslim terrorists. He is part of the “Blame America First Crowd” and now he is extending his gifts to Europe.

It might keep me awake tonight with guilt, but is there some sort of justice here?
kerwin_brown on February 19th, 2006 10:15 pm

United States Supreme Court

“ROBERTSON v. BALDWIN.
Decided January 25, 1897

But we are also of opinion that, even if the contract of a seaman could be considered within the letter of the Thirteenth Amendment, it is not, within its spirit, a case of involuntary servitude. The law is perfectly well settled that the first ten amendments to the Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights, were not intended to lay down any novel principles of government, but simply to embody certain guaranties and immunities which we had inherited from our English ancestors, and which bad from time immemorial been subject to certain well-recognized exceptions arising from the necessities of the case. In incorporating these principles into the fundamental law there was no intention of disregarding the exceptions, which continued to be recognized as if they had been formally expressed. Thus, the freedom of speech and of the press (art. 1) does not permit the publication of libels, blasphemous or indecent articles, or other publications injurious to public morals or private reputation; the right of the people ”

I though the ideal was that we should return the United States to the moral values on which she was founded. I don’t see how we can do that when we stand against those moral values ourselves.