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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JB88 on May 15, 2005, 06:42:54 PM

Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: JB88 on May 15, 2005, 06:42:54 PM: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050514/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanusmedia_050514134134 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050514/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanusmedia_050514134134)

if they can't handle being drawn as a cartoon dog, then they are never, ever, ever going to be even remotely democratic, or for that matter pleasant to be around. comes with the territory.

i dont mind beaching about us policy, but wrapping an entire nations emotions into a singular newspaper cartoon is just ridicilous. i cant belive that they apologized.

lighten up and grow some skin people.

geesh.

US newspaper regrets lampooning Pakistan over anti-terror role

Sat May 14, 9:41 AM ET

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The Washington Times has sent its regrets to the Pakistan embassy in the US over a cartoon that Islamabad said was contemptuous of the country's role in the US war on terror, officials said.
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The regret came in a letter written by the editor-in-chief of the US newspaper. Excerpts were made available by the foreign office here.

"The cartoonist inadvertently caused offense to Pakistani citizens," Wesley Pruden said, according to the foreign ministry spokesman Jail Abbas Jilani on Saturday.

"This was not his intention and nor was it the intention of the newspaper," Pruden wrote in the letter that was delivered on Friday.

The cartoon showed a dog personifying Pakistan and a US soldier patting it for its role in the fight against terror, which sparked protests in Pakistan.

Pakistan's parliament passed a unanimous resolution condemning it and demanded an apology from the newspaper.

Jilani said "we are glad that the Washington Times has regretted something which has hurt the feelings of Pakistanis and the forces of moderation."

The cartoon was published on May 6 after US
President George W. Bush praised Pakistan for the capture of Abu Faraj al-Libbi, Al-Qaeda's alleged third in command and a close aide of
Osama bin Laden.

Islamabad has also sent thousands of troops into its unruly northwestern tribal districts bordering
Afghanistan to hunt Al-Qaeda militants who sneaked across the frontier after the ousting of the Taliban in late 2001.
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: Raider179 on May 15, 2005, 06:54:51 PM: If I remember calling Muslims "Dogs" is very bad. Think of some other groups and their "slurs" and you will maybe see why they got upset. Its all about culture.
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: JB88 on May 15, 2005, 07:27:22 PM: true.

kinda reinforces my point though doesnt it?
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: bunch on May 16, 2005, 05:22:11 AM: Ironic, but IMHO, Michael Jackson now qualifies as "the man" (aka whitey, honky, etc). I hear his golf game has improved.
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: storch on May 16, 2005, 06:31:25 AM: oh no more offended moslems!!!!! yikes!!!!!! so how many were massacred over this outrage?
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: john9001 on May 16, 2005, 09:08:00 AM: JB88 is right , anyone that helps the evil USA are lapdogs.
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: Schaden on May 16, 2005, 10:43:40 AM: I know why don't we have an American flag burning ceremony video tape it and then post it for the O'Club to comment on!

We could then measure just how far veins stick out from foreheads and how many people need resuscitation from having a small thrombosis or first aid due to combination of indignation and bleeding mouse fingers.
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: JB88 on May 16, 2005, 10:57:02 AM: thats "IN HOUSE".

fact is, the muslim papers have been burning flags, calling us pigs and infidels and declaring jihads against us for ages.

regardless of whether or not our own foreign policy determines a part of this reaction, its pretty ridiculous for our own papers to be caving to such ludicrous forms of PC bullstuff.

free press. period.

a word aint a bomb. grow a spine folks.
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: lada on May 16, 2005, 11:20:01 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Schaden
I know why don't we have an American flag burning ceremony video tape it and then post it for the O'Club to comment on!

We could then measure just how far veins stick out from foreheads and how many people need resuscitation from having a small thrombosis or first aid due to combination of indignation and bleeding mouse fingers.

yeah i were thinking about same thing.

Lets post video of burning emrekan flag and watch that fun.

Is it legal in USA to burn flag and call president an ****** in newspapers ?
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: JB88 on May 16, 2005, 11:38:30 AM: politicians and people have been spoofed in political cartoons since the beginning of the free press.

yes. it is legal.

as it should be.
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: lazs2 on May 16, 2005, 02:54:25 PM: I actually agree with 88 on this whole thing.

lazs
Title: get a sense of humor ya jerks.
Post by: parker00 on May 16, 2005, 03:47:05 PM: Quote
Originally posted by lada
yeah i were thinking about same thing.

Lets post video of burning emrekan flag and watch that fun.

Is it legal in USA to burn flag and call president an ****** in newspapers ?

It's perfectly legal to burn the flag and also bash the president, you just can't threaten him in anyway. As for the flag burning, we see that on the news all the time. Not a big deal if you don't let it be. this was just a cartoon, i hope they don't watch SNL because hell they make fun of everyone.