Freeper BIL just said Afghanistan is suing Newsweek for

making up that story about the Koran.

Wouldn't be prudent.

Sunshine would do all this a world of good!

Newsweek was just a coward.

If they sue anyone it should be Bush and his minions for permitting and participating in illegal acts.

I think there's something fishy about the protest signs at the recent Islamic fundamentalist riots. Were the protests hijacked by inserting anti-Newsweek rhetoric??

Take a look at this collage of signs from the Islamic protesters. These images were AP photos from the Yahoo News photo section.



First, the slogans on the signs seem somewhat anomalous to the situation. Why are their statements so tame? I would expect to see angry and hateful epithets such as "Death to America" or "Bush is Satan" not eloquent semi-sensitive statements such as "Newsweek Deserves to be Banned" or "Bush Should Apologize For Desecration of Quran". Whoever designed these signs was skilled at English and used soft words like deserves and should. Random anti-American wackos don't just come out of the woodwork with statements like that.

Now, take another look at the collage of signs. Wouldn't you expect to see crudely written signs in sloppy paint? Here the edges of the letters are smooth and the brush strokes look computer enhanced. I mean no disrespect but where do a bunch of poor Muslims get all the equipment to produce such classy uniform signs? Kinkos? American anti-war protesters' signs don't even look half as nice. Here are some more anti-war protest images from around the world.

Afghans had already been protesting their government over their miserable political conditions before the Newsweek story broke. My bet is that someone strategically hijacked their protests by infusing it with the Newsweek rhetoric. Where were these protesters a year ago when the Abu Ghraib story broke? These protests were highly organized and strategically implemented but by who?

I smell conspiracy....THIS IS KARL ROVE! THE CIA GAVE THEM THE SIGNS, THE SIGNS LOOK TOO NICE TO BE MADE BY THE PROTESTERS......

Both pics are from Afghanistan.

the one's with Newsweek those guys look SO bored! The other two photo's of REAL protest's the people look passionate and they care about the protest they are doing.

that someone had done something, they wouldn't be holding up signs saying to ban Newsweek. That's complete bullshit as anyone with half a brain can see. If Al Jazeera had reported that the Koran was desecrated, would Muslims be holding signs "Ban Al Jazeera?" Of course not.

That's the best indicator that the whole controversy is fabricated.

Isn't the person in charge of Newsweek a hard-core rightwinger and aren't they a Bushie supporter? I thought they were.

english perfectly?

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

The penmanship on the sign not in English actually syncs up with the English lettered one, obviously written by the same person or people who have learned the same calligraphy techniques. Their alphabet is actually quite graceful...the English letters have the same quality. The sign in Arabic has denser characters, possibly done with a paint pen of some sort meant for writing...the English letters look to be double or triple-stroked since they aren't as complicated.

These were from a college? Possibly they had art students make them?

It was all staged. Like EVERYTHING in his presidency from 9/11 to this. Why are you not surprised?

Oh I'm sure of it! LOL!