6 die in bomb outside Danish Embassy in Pakistan

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jun 2, 2008 11:10 PM EDT

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"A car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in Islamabad on Monday, killing six people and wounding dozens weeks after al-Qaida issued threats against Denmark over the reprinting of a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad.

The blast is likely to lead to Western pressure on Pakistan's new government to roll back its policy of trying to strike deals with militant groups instead of using military force.

The bombing was the worst anti-Danish attack since the Muhammad cartoons first appeared nearly three years ago. At least five and possibly all six of the dead were Pakistanis.

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krishna-167929

"Outside the building it was a doomsday scene. Everybody was running helter-skelter. I saw people crying. I saw blood. I saw human body parts.

"Pakistan's government, in office for just two months, has been pursuing peace deals with the militants, a shift away from the U.S.-backed military tactics employed by President Pervez Musharraf.

""I urge and incite every Muslim who can harm Denmark to do so in support of the Prophet, God's peace and prayers be upon him, and in defense of his honorable stature," IntelCenter quoted al-Zawahri as saying in an April 21 video.

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#1 - Mon Jun 2, 2008 11:12 PM EDT

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backroads

Those Pakistani deals with the Taliban have just about fallen through.

Incidentally,

Qatar yesterday condemned the bombing of the Danish embassy in Pakistan, describing it as a "terrorist act contravening ethical and human values".

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#2 - Tue Jun 3, 2008 12:16 AM EDT

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krishna-167929

Those Pakistani deals with the Taliban have just about fallen through.

Incidentally,

Qatar yesterday condemned the bombing of the Danish embassy in Pakistan, describing it as a "terrorist act contravening ethical and human values

I have the impression that there are majhy people in the Gulf states who are quite opposed to extremism.

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#2.1 - Tue Jun 3, 2008 12:24 AM EDT

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backroads

Some have embraced modernity and acknowledge there is a real world out there involved in much more than so-called jihad murder. Education has much to do with that more enlightened stance.

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#2.2 - Tue Jun 3, 2008 12:37 AM EDT

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Andyancona

This ground is really "delicate" to deal with. We are educated to have "the right" to express ourselves despite we are Christians or not, Western behavior is flexible to others opinions. But we also know that some expressions might cause "disgust"... maybe we shouldn't give Islam Terror a reason to point on us, we should be more careful. What about the victims neither knowing where Danmark is?

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#3 - Tue Jun 3, 2008 8:36 AM EDT

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krishna-167929

. But we also know that some expressions might cause "disgust"... maybe we shouldn't give Islam Terror a reason to point on us, we should be more careful.

The problem with that is-- no matter what you say-- there's likely to be someone who is offended. And-- if you limit free speech that may offend a religious group-- what about other forms of free speech that may offend others? Should a liberal cartoonist be forbidden from making a political cartoon that may offend conservatives? Should a conservative cartoonist be careful-- and not make cartoons that might offend liberal? How about a cartoon that offends Socialists-- or capitalists? Or soccer fans-- if the cartoon bashes their beloved team?

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#3.1 - Tue Jun 3, 2008 11:35 PM EDT

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Andyancona

You are right and I agree, but what if radical Islams just wait for something like to justify an attack? I won't limit the freedom of caroonists, opinion writers and others.

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#4 - Wed Jun 4, 2008 5:13 AM EDT

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krishna-167929

You are right and I agree, but what if radical Islams just wait for something like to justify an attack?

Of course the point is-- if they want to justify an attack, they will always find something. If the cartoons were never published-- they would find something else. The more you try to appease them-- they more they see it as a sign of weakness-- and make further demands.

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#4.1 - Wed Jun 4, 2008 8:36 PM EDT

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Andyancona

You're right, so what shall we do, re-bomb anywhere else?

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#5 - Thu Jun 5, 2008 11:25 AM EDT

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krishna-167929

You're right, so what shall we do, re-bomb anywhere else

Perhaps merely being firm-- and not giving in to their demands. Let them know, for example, that we will not give in-- that we will insist on our right to free speech, and not be intimidated. (And, continue to arrest terrorists).

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#5.1 - Thu Jun 5, 2008 12:39 PM EDT

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