Thread: Islamist demonstration following the release of a film about Islam.

There is some confusion about the freedom of expression and the image of Muhammad. It is a crime under Sharia to portray any image of Muhammad. This is a kind of parody of the restrictions in Judaism of not speaking the name of God in print and the commandment against graven images. When Pamela Geller and her contest about portraying Muhammad came under attack, it was not because of the negative portrayals, it was because any portrayal is forbidden in Islam.

Here is more evidence of this problem:

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...-in-dc/264939/

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Washington, D.C., came to a standstill six weeks into the Carter administration when on March 9, 1977, Hamaas Abdul Khaalis and 11 other Hanafi Muslims drove a rented U-Haul from Maryland to the District of Columbia loaded with machetes, shotguns, and swords. By mid-afternoon they had seized control of the District Building, the Islamic Center, and the B'na B'rith Headquarters, shooting dead a police officer and local reporter in the process. Among the 149 hostages they seized were a future mayor -- Marion Barry, then a city councilman, who survived a shotgun wound to the chest -- and then-mayor Walter Washington, who was barricaded in his office.

Poorly remembered about the plot is what provoked it: the same film that sparked protests in India this year.

"We want the picture out of the country," Khaalis then declared. "Because it's a fairy tale, it's a joke. ... I'm Muslim and I'll die for my faith. It's a joke. It's misrepresenting the Muslim faith.

The 1977 Hanafi Siege dragged on for 39 hours, prompted Associated Press articles headlined "Moslem terrorists hijacking the capital," and would be considered the city's first major domestic-terrorism crisis. It's been commemorated as an artifact of District-security lore, staged decades before the 9/11 attacks.

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They are all inbred schizophrenics prone to violence........civilized people do not act this way...they should be in their own country so they can continue the centuries of butchering, beheading, raping of children, domination of women, etc amongst themselves...., they will not change their ways no matter what opportunities are offered to them.

That was happening in Australia