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STOP THIS FREAKING MADNESS

Article in Queensland's Courier Mail

Protesters in Mac attacks
Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan
16feb06

PROTESTERS burned a KFC restaurant and movie theatres in the northwestern city of Peshawar yesterday – Pakistan's third consecutive day of violent protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, witnesses said.

Gunfire was heard near the burning KFC restaurant as police used tear gas and batons to fight back thousands of protesters blocking one of the city's main streets, witnesses said.

The mob burned three movie theatres and offices of Mobilink – the main mobile phone operator in the country, witnesses said.

Clashes between police and demonstrators injured at least 16 people, witnesses said. Hundreds of Afghan refugees joined the protest in Peshawar, the capital of the conservative North West Frontier Province.

The violence began after about 6000 protesters gathered at a busy traffic intersection. Many were chanting "Death to Denmark!" and "Hang those who drew the insulting cartoons!" Others burned Danish flags and effigies of the Danish Prime Minister.

Most shops, public transport and other businesses were closed in Peshawar.

As police battled protesters in Peshawar, another violent demonstration erupted about 230km away in the town of Tank, where 2000 people rallied, said Attiq Wazir, a police official in the town.

Protesters set fire to 30 shops selling CDs, DVDs and videos, Mr Wazir said.

Suspected Islamic militants had issued warnings to music shops to close in Tank, on the edge of South Waziristan, a tribal region where security officials have said Al-Qaeda-linked foreign fighters are hiding, witnesses said.

One policeman was injured when a protester opened fire to resist arrest, a police official said.

Yesterday's violence came a day after thousands of protesters went on a rampage in the eastern city of Lahore, burning Western businesses such as McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants. Two people died and police detained 125 people, another police official said.

Violent protests also erupted in the capital Islamabad on Tuesday. More than 1000 students forced their way into a heavily guarded enclave housing foreign embassies. They damaged cars and a bank building but were quickly expelled from the area by police using with tear gas and water cannon.

Police had arrested 142 students in the capital for disrupting peace, damaging property and disregarding orders to disperse, Islamabad police spokesman Naeem Iqbal said.

A violent protest happened on Monday in Peshawar, where thousands of students marched through the city and broke windows.

In Kuala Lumpur, a Chinese-language daily has been ordered to halt publication for two weeks as punishment for printing a photograph showing the Danish cartoons.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said in a statement yesterday that he ordered the Guang Ming Daily, Malaysia's third-largest Chinese-language daily, to stop publication of its evening edition for two weeks starting today.

The newspaper on February 3 published two stories on the global uproar over the cartoons, with an accompanying photograph showing someone reading a paper on which the caricatures were clearly visible, the statement said.

Associated Press


AND MAY I ADD:

Still going, going, going. When will these demented rioters ever stop making raging monkeys out of themselves?

They even attack establishments that have nothing to do with those stupid cartoons. Those very establishments that provide employment to young people (and not so very young) as well as investments to their local economy. These events should serve a wake up call to foreign investors who are thinking of putting their money and resources to politically unstable countries like (you know what). Maybe Western developed countriest should also take this into account when they consider accepting future immigrants with this background.

Now we have a clear picture of what is really meant by Islam by the examples set by the believers -it is definitely not a RELIGION OF PEACE. (Okay they proved their point already on this one). And if GOD is really all omnipotent, omnipresent and very Merciful, then he has already made jugment on this issue based on the ongoing unsettling events. He doesn't need all those retards to defend Him.

One more questions - If they revered Mohammed that much - why it is very common for men named Mohammed? I wonder when those Mohammeds were still silly, stupid, naughty boys, do their mothers swore at them?


Also, the picture of small children dragged in this controversy, those little kids learn HATE before they learn how to read and write.

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR

TO ALL WAR FREAKS OUT THERE

I was surfing the internet when I came across this site - CHECK THIS OUT!!!

http://www.scandirabia.com/

LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND

LOL

VALENTINE'S DAY

14 February 06

JRT took me out to lunch - bought me a nice Valentine's presents. box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates, a balloon (with I LOVE YOU markings) and a single rose.

We tried to avoid discussion on what happened yesterday - which was rather something we wanted to get over with.

When you've been together for 13 years - you would think there wouldn't be anymore romance associated with Valentine's day. - and I'm right.

I didn't give him anything - I just totally lost it. Just a kiss on the check!!

We walked around the shopping centre - and wished we were somewhere else.

Do I still love him? - Oh whatever love means!!

I have this ambivalent feeling.

I love him

I love him not

I love him

I love him not

I love him

Freedom of Press & Free Expression

Are you kidding me

When Middle Eastern newspapers published cartoons which are quite offensive to other religion, race, culture - well that's freedom of the press. Go to this site.

http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm

Hey! there was no burning of Arab flags, no rioting and burning of Arab Embassies.

Well if it served their purpose, they're exercising their freedom of Press and Free Expression!!!


For crying out loud!!!

FREEDOM!!!!

Support the Freedom of Press and Free Expression

You would need it one day - as scapegoat!!

LET'S LIGHTEN UP - CHILL!!

Inspirational one liners . . . (GATHERED FROM THE INTERNET)
• Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
• If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos...then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.
• Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.
• Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
• Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
• A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.
• Plagiarism saves time.
• If at first you don't succeed, try management.
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.
• TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
• The beatings will continue until morale improves.
• Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.
• We waste time, so you don't have to.
• Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!
• Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.
• A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.
• When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.
• INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
• Succeed in spite of management.
• Aim Low, Reach Your Goals, Avoid Disappointment

WHAT IS HEAVEN

What is heaven? Is it a place where righteous people go on the judgment day? Who is deemed righteous anyway? A man with an arm length of criminal offences, or serial killer but before they died they were able to say a little prayer and atone their sins and take Jesus as their personal saviour? A prostitute who found God? Or a suicide bomber who deliberately massacre innocent people in the name of God? ? I feel sorry for all those who died virgins, they will be just sex slaves for those terrorists who died in the name of God.

I would not want to be in heaven, If I wouldn't be with the people I loved most in my life. Life would not be worth reliving for without my loved ones. What would life be in heaven - Would You and I lose our very essence? Would there be love and devotion? Or would people be like robots? With everything provided for, there would be nothing to work for, hence nothing really to look forward to, what else is there to live for... well good for bludgers really. From the moment you wake up - it would be the same as what was like the day before. Deja vu all the time, no passion, no excitement. It would be like people would be wandering around, singing (no gospel songs please), and nothing else to do, there would be no motivation, it could be very boring existence, living in a commune or kibbutz style. If God had no patience with Adam and Eve - just because they ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge, obviously God wanted them to be illiterate, dumb and stupid - I can just imagine how would He handle countless of poor souls with different religious background, upbringings, characters, atittudes, personalities! Heaven only appeals to those who lived a very disadvantaged life on earth.

Heaven and Hell are here on earth. I have experienced both, the highs and lows. The greatest of the highs was when I fell in love - that was heaven. The birth of my boys - heaven. When Romy, my first serious Boyfriend and my Mom died - the feeling was like I was in hell. The time when I lost my job - not quite hell but still hell because I have children to feed and look after.

For me Eternal life is how I will be remembered when I die. How I will stay in the hearts of the people I treasured, I loved most and to those people whose lives I touched - the difference I made to their lives. I know I will live forever. In their memories and in their hearts - well that's HEAVEN.

I would like to share this Bryan Adam's song with you

Heaven

Oh - thinkin' about all our younger years
There was only you and me
We were young and wild and free

Now nothin' can take you away from me
We've been down that road before
But that's over now
You keep me comin' back for more
Baby you're all that I want
When you're lyin' here in my arms
I'm findin' it hard to believe
We're in heaven

And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven

Oh - once in your life you find someone
Who will turn your world around
Bring you up when you're feelin' down

Ya - nothin' could change what you mean to me
Oh there's lots that I could say
But just hold me now
Cause our love will light the way


I've been waitin' for so long
For somethin' to arrive
For love to come along

Now our dreams are comin' true
Through the good times and the bad
Ya - I'll be standin' there by you