Friday, March 17, 2006

Chalk one up for Denmark

This is refreshing; “Danish paper faces no charges over Muhammad cartoons”.
The Danes were expected by most to cower down, and punish the publisher of the cartoons in spite of their Free Speech laws. This article from Timesonline.co.uk points out the blatantly obvious problem with punishing the publishers – they “did not violate Danish law.
As you are reading this, did you know that in October of 2005, an Egyptian newspaper called Al Faqr printed these same cartoons, and there was not the slightest bit of “outrage” (LGF – Feb 8, 2006 posting). Think about that for a minute. These things were already out there in the Egyptian public without any public response.
It forces one to wonder what happened in the time between Al Faqr’s printing and the Denmark newspaper’s printing of the same cartoons.

When Denmark printed them, Muslims in Britan were soon thereafter “protesting outside of the Danish embassy with picket signs saying "Massacre those who insult Islam" and "Europe you will pay, your 9/11 will come".
Cartoons – the worst of which had Mohammed's turban looking like a bomb, causing protests; picket signs calling for the murder of anyone who insults Islam; riots that resulted in the deaths of several people; cars being torched; and last but not least, threats of a future attack that will mimic 9-11, which killed more than three thousand people.
Even if these cartoons were as horribly blasphemous and offensive as they are being made out to be, would it in any way justify, in any fathomable way, the reaction that we have seen?


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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