Al Qaeda leader wants Danish cartoonists handed over

[ECH1969]

The complete version of Osama bin Laden's most recent audio message appeared Thursday on Islamist Web sites, four days after excerpts appeared on the Arabic language TV channel Al-Jazeera.

Muslims consider it sacrilegious to produce a likeness of Mohammad, and the cartoons sparked violent protests throughout the Muslim world. He said the cartoon controversy was "too serious for an apology" and was the most serious aspect of the alleged war against Islam.

He called for the extradition of those responsible for drawing and publishing the cartoons to be tried by al Qaeda. "We demand that their governments hand them over to us to be judged by the law of Allah," he said.

Defeating America in Iraq, he said, would end the attacks against Muslims. "The axis and the mill of this war is located in Baghdad ... and they say over and over again that success in Baghdad is success for America and that their failure in Baghdad is failure for America," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/27/binladen.tape/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[roguevalley]

1. al Qaeda's leader can go fuck himself.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. These people also call for

the destruction of religious shrines dear to other Muslims, and wish that the ceremonies performed by other Muslims, meetings of other Muslims, be banned. Do not let their rhetoric color your opinion of Islam-they speak loudly, but they are in a minority. And they are helped by a Western press that ignores the statements and actions of moderate Muslims so as to paint a picture that we moderate/progressive Muslims "do nothing". That's as true as "The Democrats have no ideas for the future."

[jimshoes]

3. Tell him to stand outside the green zone

with a bright red flag. We'll bring them right out.

[greyl]

4. Tough shit. nt

[Boojatta]

5. How could anything be more serious than a cartoon?

He said the cartoon controversy was "too serious for an apology" and was the most serious aspect of the alleged war against Islam.

Maybe if Paris Hilton were involved in this, then her role in this might be more important than the role of the cartoon.

[AlCzervik]

6. yeah, we'll get right on that.

[acmavm]

7. These people are so indescribably ridiculous in their demands that

even if a case is made for some of their gripes against the United States they just make them irrelevant when they say shit like this.

Obviously the smart ones are not the ones with the tape recorders (or whatever).

[Boojatta]

8. How does al Qaeda's judicial oversight committee deal with high court

judges who refuse to consider appeals of complicated cases merely because they want to avoid extremely challenging and emotionally upsetting judicial cases?

He called for the extradition of those responsible for drawing and publishing the cartoons to be tried by al Qaeda. "We demand that their governments hand them over to us to be judged by the law of Allah," he said.