Freedom from the tyranny of the Taliban by Westerners still has not taught Afghans anything about the value of freedom of speech!!!
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Afghan MPs oppose Prophet cartoon

Afghan MPs have protested against the reprinting of a cartoon regarded as insulting to the Prophet Mohammed and a film said to be critical of the Koran.

The cartoon has been republished in Danish newspapers. The upcoming Dutch film criticising Islam has been made by far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders.

The MPs have called on the Danish and Dutch governments to prevent such acts.

The film project has already been condemned by several Muslim countries, including Iran and Pakistan.

The Afghan MPs demonstrated outside the country's parliament on Tuesday. Some of them chanted: "Death to the enemies of Islam".

They called on international organisations like the United Nations to prevent actions which they said could trigger confrontations.

Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta, who is on a visit to Scandinavian countries, told the BBC's Afghan Service that he had raised the issue with the Danish authorities.

"I expressed my own opinion that insulting the Prophet Mohammed cannot be included in the principle of freedom of expression."

"Freedom of expression has its limits - it should not harm religious feeling and beliefs."

The original printing of the Danish cartoon prompted major demonstrations in Afghanistan in early 2006 during which a number of people were killed.

Two years later, its reprinting has rekindled some of the anger of that time.

And it is not just the cartoon issue which is upsetting Afghan politicians - the MPs were also protesting against a forthcoming film from Mr Wilders.

Meanwhile, ordinary Afghans too have been showing their displeasure.

During a demonstration in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Sunday, hundreds of protesters burned the Danish and Dutch flags and demanded that the government shut down the two countries' embassies in Kabul.

The demonstrators said they would step up their protests unless the Afghan government expelled the troops.

The Dutch government has warned Mr Wilders that the film will damage Dutch political and economic interests.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7278576.stm

Sad thing is, Malaki is seen shaking his hand! The USA needs to wipe out the enemy in Iraq, secure the oil fields for the use of the allies, and drop some stratigically placed bombs on Iran on the way home. This war has become too PC and it's making the USA look like chumps.

I know the West is going to pull it together, but only when things get even more unbearable than they are today.
By the way, Sandi, I JUST responded to your Perfect Mohammed cartoon, I think we may have simultaneously responded to each other's posts.

"The implication seems to be that we are not a sovereign state any longer with the right and autonomy to defend ourselves, but only a fragment of the world body, over half of which hates us passionately.

Nobody dreamed of wheeling and dealing with any international committee in regard to whether it was all right to respond at once to Pearl Harbour.

Fearsome weaponry is of no value if the man with his finger on the button can not bring himself or his countryman to make the decision to push it."

- Leonard Peikoff