The Scriptorium

Angered over an “intolerant” cartoon, Muslims are showing us all how to be tolerant by attacking Christians in Nigeria, and burning down Christian churches. The wide spread nature of these riots, attacks, and killings is proof that Islam is not, and never has been, a religion of peace. If there really are moderate Muslims, where are they? Why aren’t they speaking out against this death and destruction?

Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people in the deadliest confrontation yet in the whirlwind of Muslim anger over the drawings.

It was the first major protest to erupt over the issue in Africa’s most populous nation. An Associated Press reporter saw mobs of Muslim protesters swarm through the city center with machetes, sticks and iron rods. One group threw a tire around a man, poured gas on him and set him ablaze.

In Libya, the parliament suspended the interior minister after at least 11 people died when his security forces attacked rioters who torched the Italian consulate in Benghazi.

Right-wing Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli resigned under pressure, accused of fueling the fury in Benghazi by wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with one of the offending cartoons, first published nearly five months ago in a Danish newspaper.

A T-shirt with a supposedly offensive cartoon upsets them, but killing innocent people, burning down churches, and threatening to exterminate people is okay. This world better wake up soon. Islam isn’t a religion, it’s a plague.

The U.N. failed miserably at their attempt to take control of the internet, so they’re trying a new approach – global treaties. Wising up to the lack of public support for a regulated internet, they’re trying their new approach by using an activity people will be more willing to have regulated. A global treaty against cigarette advertising could be extended to cover advertising on the internet. Like many people, I can see the benefit of not advertising things like cigarettes and alcohol, but I also see the dangers of letting the U.N. get a foot in the door. Now it’s cigarettes, but what will they propose regulating in the future? You can bet it won’t be pornography they regulate next. It’ll be “hate speech”. And, hate speech will be defined by the United Nations, an organization that can’t come up with a definition for terrorism and calls terrorists freedom fighters.

Health officials from more than 100 countries have agreed to study widening a global tobacco control treaty to target advertising over the Internet and satellite television, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which came into force a year ago, bans advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products, blamed for five million early deaths a year.

But officials from 113 countries, meeting in their first conference of the parties, which ended on Friday, found that the May 2003 pact failed to cover all cross-border advertising, senior WHO officials said.

Tobacco will prematurely end the lives of 10 million people a year by 2020 if current trends are not reversed, the WHO says. There are currently some 1.3 billion smokers worldwide.

Working parties will study legally-binding protocols to clamp down on cross-border advertising as well as illicit trade, and report back by mid-2007, the officials told a news briefing at the end of two weeks of talks.

“The blindspot was identified that there are other forms of advertising coming from non-party states being beamed into parties — Internet communication and sports sponsorship which maybe comes from satellite television,” said Douglas Bettcher, coordinator of the WHO’s Framework Tobacco Control Office.

The cartoon Jihad continues to cause death and destruction around the world. Islam is revealing its true colors and even people in liberal Seattle are finally getting it. Muslims are ruining years of liberal excuse making. How will President Bush and the Dems convince us Islam is a religion of peace with Muslims calling for all of us to be slaughtered in the name of Allah?

Cartoon Jihad kills 9 in Libya

Cartoon rage reaches New Mexico, USA

The sign below is from a protest in New York City, where 3,000 people died because of Islam.

A NYC Muslim Group Warns U.S.: ‘Your Days are Numbered’

Cartoon Jihad in the Philippines: