Clash of Civilizations

[Memphis Slim]

Mermaid Statue Draped in Muslim Dress



Unknown offenders put a Muslim dress and head scarf on the famed Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen early Sunday May 20 2007, police said. After receiving a telephone call, a police car was dispatched to the site and she was undressed, Copenhagen police spokesman Jorgen Thomsen said. The Little Mermaid was created by Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen in tribute to Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. Sitting on a rock at the entrance of the Copenhagen harbor since 1913, she draws an estimated 1 million visitors a year, and is occasionally targeted by vandals. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Andrius Karolis)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP)
Little Mermaid statue in Denmark's capital was found draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf Sunday morning. Police removed the clothing after a telephone caller reported it, spokesman Jorgen Thomsen said.
The statue sculpted in tribute to author Hans Christian Andersen draws about 1 million visitors a year and is targeted occasionally by vandals. On Tuesday, the statue's face, left arm and lap were found doused with red paint.
In 2004, someone put a burqa, the head-to-toe Islamic robe, on the statue, along with a sign questioning Turkey's bid to join the European Union.
The bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen has sat on a rock in Copenhagen harbor since 1913.


I'm sure no one here is bothered by this.

 

[Memphis Slim]

Hamas kids TV show with militant mouse to air Friday

A Hamas-owned children's show features
a mouse named Farfour that has encouraged
children to engage in violent acts
against Israel and the United States.



From Atika Shubert
CNN


JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A Hamas-produced children's television show featuring a Mickey Mouse-like character urging children to take up arms will air as scheduled on Friday, Al-Aqsa Television said Thursday.
It is not clear if the station will grant a Palestinian official's request for changes.
Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti initially said the show had been shelved and that Al-Aqsa TV had agreed to do a "full revision."
"We communicated with the station as soon as this was brought to our attention, and the station has informed us that they will stop it immediately," Barghouti initially said. (Watch the mouse dance as a child sings about an AK-47 )
Al-Aqsa TV said later, however, that the show will be broadcast at 4 p.m. (9 a.m. ET) Friday.
According to the Web site of the Middle East Times, a Cyprus-based Egyptian newspaper, an Al-Aqsa TV representative said the station will continue to air the show and that "Barghouti misunderstood the issue." The source requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, the paper reported.
Barghouti said Thursday he would not object to the broadcast if Al-Aqsa TV adhered to his requests that the show not politicize children and that it "stop the political approach to children."
Barghouti, who is politically independent from the fractious Hamas and Fatah parties, said he personally requested the changes after an episode made global headlines.
Barghouti said Al-Aqsa TV was cooperating. But it is unclear what, if any, revisions will be made.
The station's deputy manager, Hazem Shaarawi, insisted the show is "about Palestinian kids."
"They express their feeling regarding what they witness -- if it's occupation it's about that, and about the prisoners and how to lead the world," Shaarawi said.
Barghouti said the Palestinian Authority licensed the Hamas-owned station last week and has been working with station managers to temper some of the programming.

'Tomorrow's Pioneers'

The show, "Tomorrow's Pioneers," aired in Gaza on the Al-Aqsa TV station, which is owned by Hamas, an Islamic militant group that controls the Palestinian government and has called for the destruction of Israel.
The show features a person in a giant black-and-white costume that looks like Walt Disney's cartoon character Mickey Mouse. In the episode, Farfour dances with an imaginary gun in his gloved hands and encourages kids to drink milk, study hard -- and engage in violent acts of "resistance" against their Israeli neighbors and America.
The episode, concerns of which were first raisedby Palestinian Media Watch and Middle East Media Research Institute, showed Farfour cheering for Islamic supremacy, saying, "We will win, Bush! We will win, Condoleezza [Rice]!"
Palestinian Media Watch spokesman Itamar Marcus called the program dangerous.
"The danger is its mixing of the poison with the [milk], and the child doesn't even realize that he's being poisoned," Marcus said.
Although Barghouti called the show's content "very unfortunate," he also said the show is indicative of Palestinian struggles against Israeli occupation.
"Fishermen are shot at when they try to fish. The passages are closed. People cannot move freely from, in, or out of Gaza," he said. "It's a situation of imprisonment for years. And that oppression, this apartheid system, of course drives people crazy and creates certain reactions as the one you have seen."
Both Al-Aqsa TV and Hamas refused to comment.
Walt Disney's sole surviving daughter, Diane Disney Miller, on Tuesday told the New York Daily News the show "is just going against the grain of humanity."
"What we're dealing with here is pure evil and you can't ignore that," Miller was quoted as saying on the Daily News Web site.


wow.....

 

[Darthphere]

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

god i hate that book.

 

[Babs Gordon]

Mermaid Statue Draped in Muslim Dress



Unknown offenders put a Muslim dress and head scarf on the famed Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen early Sunday May 20 2007, police said. After receiving a telephone call, a police car was dispatched to the site and she was undressed, Copenhagen police spokesman Jorgen Thomsen said. The Little Mermaid was created by Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen in tribute to Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. Sitting on a rock at the entrance of the Copenhagen harbor since 1913, she draws an estimated 1 million visitors a year, and is occasionally targeted by vandals. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Andrius Karolis)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP)
Little Mermaid statue in Denmark's capital was found draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf Sunday morning. Police removed the clothing after a telephone caller reported it, spokesman Jorgen Thomsen said.
The statue sculpted in tribute to author Hans Christian Andersen draws about 1 million visitors a year and is targeted occasionally by vandals. On Tuesday, the statue's face, left arm and lap were found doused with red paint.
In 2004, someone put a burqa, the head-to-toe Islamic robe, on the statue, along with a sign questioning Turkey's bid to join the European Union.
The bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen has sat on a rock in Copenhagen harbor since 1913.


I'm sure no one here is bothered by this.

If you'd read the entire article or at least left it in context you would see that it was done by non-Muslims in protest of Turkey's joining the EU. They're obviously trying to say "This is what will happen to the EU if Turkey joins".

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

oh and there goes goes our war on terror!

 

[Darthphere]

If you'd read the entire article or at least left it in context you would see that it was done by non-Muslims in protest of Turkey's joining the EU. They're obviously trying to say "This is what will happen to the EU if Turkey joins".

Pwned.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

No longer will US Attorney General John Ashcroft appear in public with a semi-nude statue towering above him. The US Justice Department has spent $8,000 on curtains to hide the statue from the cameras.
The female, art-deco "Spirit of Justice" statue, with one breast exposed, is located on the podium in the department's ornate Great Hall where news conferences are often held.

Mr Ashcroft 'knew nothing' of the decision


One fully-exposed breast protrudes from her toga garment.
Her male counterpart, the "Majesty of Law", is sculpted with a cloth strategically placed around his waist.
Photographers have gone to great lengths in the past to capture the scantily-clad female statue in the background as the Justice Department's top brass addressed the world's press.
Mr Ashcroft has been photographed speaking in front of her several times since the 11 September attacks.
Hired drapes have previously hung in front of both statues for formal events, such as President George W Bush's visit to name the building after assassinated former attorney-general, Robert Kennedy.
Visual harmony
This was done for "aesthetic" reasons, according to Justice Department spokesman Shane Hix, who said the drapes provided a pleasant background for television cameras.
But on Monday the department announced that it had taken a "cost effective" decision to buy the curtains, which cost around $2,000 to hire.
ABC News reported that the decision was taken at the request of the conservative Mr Ashcroft himself.
But Justice Department spokeswoman Barbara Comstock said Mr Ashcroft knew nothing of the investment.
"He has more important things to worry about than what appears in the pictures," she said.
The drapes are reported to have been hanging since Monday, drawing to a close the sport of photographers who infamously sprawled on the floor to snap the former Attorney General Edwin Meese holding aloft his report on pornography in front of the female statue.

I'm sure Celldog is OUTRAGED by this as well.

 

[Kyalesyin]

If you'd read the entire article or at least left it in context you would see that it was done by non-Muslims in protest of Turkey's joining the EU. They're obviously trying to say "This is what will happen to the EU if Turkey joins".

Sweet, cool, icy ownage.

 

[Babs Gordon]

Plus it was in... like... 2004.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

Jesus Camp is a documentary about the "Kids On Fire School of Ministry," a charismatic Christian summer camp located just outside Devils Lake, North Dakota and run by Becky Fischer and her ministry, Kids in Ministry International. The film focuses on three children who attended the camp in the summer of 2005--Levi, Rachael, and Tory (Victoria). The film cuts between footage of the camp and a children's prayer conference held just prior to the camp at Christ Triumphant Church, a large charismatic church in Lee's Summit, Missouri; a suburb of Kansas City.
All three children, despite their youth, are very devout charismatic Christians. Levi, who has ambitions of being a pastor, has already preached several sermons at his father's church, Rock of Ages Church in St. Robert, Missouri. He is homeschooled (as are many of the campers), and learns physical science from a book that attempts to reconcile the creationist account with scientific principles, occasionally by dismissing science altogether. He preaches a sermon at the camp in which he declares that his generation is key to Jesus's coming back. Rachael, who also attends Levi's church, is seen praying over a bowling ball early in the film, and frequently passes Christian tracts (including some by Jack Chick) to people she meets. She doesn't think very highly of non-charismatic churches (or "dead churches," as she calls them), feeling they aren't "churches that God likes to go to." Tory is a member of the children's praise dance team at Christ Triumphant Church. She frequently dances to Christian heavy metal music, and feels uncomfortable about "dancing for the flesh." She also doesn't think very highly of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.
At the camp, Fischer stresses the need for children to purify themselves in order to be part of the "army of God." She strongly believes that children need to be in the forefront of turning America toward conservative Christian values. She also feels that Christians need to focus on training kids since "the enemy" are focused on training theirs.

ARGGGH the outrage!!!! the bold, underlined, different colored outrage!!!!


uh, right?

Celldog?


you there, buddy?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Plus it was in... like... 2004.

But if we allow it to disipate into the fog of forgotten history, we'll be doomed to repeat, this.......statue.....mmm......drapery...

!!

 

[Mr Sparkle]

uh....Celldog?


you there?


dude?

 

[jaguarr]

If you'd read the entire article or at least left it in context you would see that it was done by non-Muslims in protest of Turkey's joining the EU. They're obviously trying to say "This is what will happen to the EU if Turkey joins".

Owned hard and put away wet. :heart:

jag

 

[Mr Sparkle]

ew

no seriously ew.

 

[jaguarr]

ew

no seriously ew.

It was genius. Wet, sticky, satisfying genius.

jag

 

[Mr Sparkle]

Argh!!!!

 

[jaguarr]

Argh!!!!

Maybe you could appreciate it more if I posted some photos?

jag

 

[Mr Sparkle]

awesome.

yuck.

but honestly it's great that Babs owned Celldog like.
intelligence just adds to Beauty, don't

ya

think?

 

[Memphis Slim]

If you'd read the entire article or at least left it in context you would see that it was done by non-Muslims in protest of Turkey's joining the EU. They're obviously trying to say "This is what will happen to the EU if Turkey joins".

Copenhagen's Mermaid Statue Converts to Islam?!

The Little Mermaid statue in Denmark's capital was found draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf Sunday morning. Police removed the clothing after a telephone caller reported it, spokesman Jorgen Thomsen said.
The statue sculpted in tribute to author Hans Christian Andersen draws about 1 million visitors a year and is targeted occasionally by vandals. On Tuesday, the statue's face, left arm and lap were found doused with red paint.

In 2004, a burqa, the head-to-toe Islamic robe, was put on the statue, along with a sign questioning Turkey's bid to join the European Union.

The bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen has sat on a rock in Copenhagen harbor since 1913.


Uh...where does it say "non-Muslims"??? It said vandals.....


And why would a non-Muslim not want to join the EU? Hard line Islamists don't want that. Thank people are protesting for a secular government over there.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

oh snap, that was pretty sad even for you Celldog.

 

[Kyalesyin]

Is it just me, or does he have three or four default posts that he's just programmed to repeat over and over with different sections highlighted?

 

[Memphis Slim]

Jesus Camp is a documentary about the "Kids On Fire School of Ministry," a charismatic Christian summer camp located just outside Devils Lake, North Dakota and run by Becky Fischer and her ministry, Kids in Ministry International. The film focuses on three children who attended the camp in the summer of 2005--Levi, Rachael, and Tory (Victoria). The film cuts between footage of the camp and a children's prayer conference held just prior to the camp at Christ Triumphant Church, a large charismatic church in Lee's Summit, Missouri; a suburb of Kansas City.
All three children, despite their youth, are very devout charismatic Christians. Levi, who has ambitions of being a pastor, has already preached several sermons at his father's church, Rock of Ages Church in St. Robert, Missouri. He is homeschooled (as are many of the campers), and learns physical science from a book that attempts to reconcile the creationist account with scientific principles, occasionally by dismissing science altogether.

Of course this was a very "unbiased" reporting of this camp. I'm sure they didn't ignore science. They probably don't accept the fairy tale of evolution. Thus you consider them dumber than you.


He preaches a sermon at the camp in which he declares that his generation is key to Jesus's coming back. Rachael, who also attends Levi's church, is seen praying over a bowling ball early in the film, and frequently passes Christian tracts (including some by Jack Chick) to people she meets. She doesn't think very highly of non-charismatic churches (or "dead churches," as she calls them), feeling they aren't "churches that God likes to go to." Tory is a member of the children's praise dance team at Christ Triumphant Church. She frequently dances to Christian heavy metal music, and feels uncomfortable about "dancing for the flesh." She also doesn't think very highly of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.

Churches like these provide your straw man argument. Charismatics engage in worship that some other denominations don't. And unfortunately judge other churches on a secondary standard. Quite frankly that's not right. It's a secondary issue that believers agree to disagree on. Hey ...I don't think much of Brit and Lindsey examples either. I dare say that a lot non-christian parents like what those girls are teaching.



At the camp, Fischer stresses the need for children to purify themselves in order to be part of the "army of God." She strongly believes that children need to be in the forefront of turning America toward conservative Christian values. She also feels that Christians need to focus on training kids since "the enemy" are focused on training theirs.


And your point?? See....even with all of the somewhat extreme style of worship and teaching, not one mention of killing someone. Not one message to those children about blowing themselves up or shooting someone. Technically the unsaved world is an "enemy" of the church. This world.......heck these message boards attest to that fact! The Bible is constantly dogged out on this board. Jesus' name is blasphemed and most you say "Right On!" .

But Christians are taught to pray for their enemies...not shoot them. Not to blow them up. That was not Jesus' way.


So this article was really pointless..........yawn......

 

[Memphis Slim]

I'm sure Celldog is OUTRAGED by this as well.

My eyes are bleeding, I'm so mad.

 

[kane9321]

poor celldog