Denmark Is Unlikely Front in Islam-West Culture War

Denmark Is Unlikely Front in Islam-West Culture War

By DAN BILEFSKY, NYT

COPENHAGEN - When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, including one in which he is shown wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse, it expected a strong reaction in this country of 5.4 million people.

But the paper was unprepared for the global furor that ensued, including demonstrations in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, death threats against the artists, condemnation from 11 Muslim countries and a rebuke from the United Nations.

"The cartoons did nothing that transcends the cultural norms of secular Denmark, and this was not a provocation to insult Muslims," said Flemming Rose, cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's largest newspaper, which has declined to apologize for the drawings.

"But if we talk of freedom of speech, even if it was a provocation, that does not make our right to do it any less legitimate before the law," he added in an interview from Miami. He spent months living under police protection in Denmark. MORE

Posted by Ted Belman at January 9, 2006 03:32 PM

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1. Dan Barkye said:


Let's face it, we are living now, in a world that is bullied to the extreme by the Muslims/Islam, if there's a difference between the two (considering the words root - dedication).

A bully is a bully, only if he is allowed to be a bully.

Action! No more words! The Islamofascist bully exploits the fascination of the West w words in the name of a democratic exchange and cultural pluralism, or diversity, as you wish, when all the while he is bullying it w/o words but w actions, in the name of a pragmatic totalitarianism, a world view that by default is Machiavelistic in nature, and so "The End jusitifies the Means" fully. When he speaks, he does it deliberately for diversion. He knows the West will listen, will think, will debate, will (try) to decide, will prepare for (some) action, and maybe, maybe, will act, but by then it will be too late. The most demagogic propaganda seen since Hitler, Goebels, et al.

Posted by: Dan Barkye on January 10, 2006 12:08 AM

2. Dewi Sudarsono said:

Europe has become Eurabia a long time ago, it sold it's soul to the muslem-barbarians for oil, for the illusion of power in the world arena, it became the land of dhimmitude.

Dan Barky just wrote "...The most demagogic propaganda seen since Hitler, Goebels, et al..." well he couldn't have been more right, The Islamofascism = Nazism and the Vichi leadership of Eurabia is as anti-semitic it always been.

Read Bat Ye'or Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis it explains it all. But I will fight it until my last breath.

Posted by: Dewi Sudarsono on January 10, 2006 06:54 PM

3. zico_zico said:

To respect others is a basic requirement for personal freedom . I cannot insult others while I,m practicing my personal freedom. Muslems do respect all other religions as a part of their basic faith in islam and even this time when cristians attack their prophet they only became angry with those irresponsible persons who did this shamefull cartoons but they never attack Jesus peace be upon him. Please no need to talk in this superiority way all the time muslims can also talk in such way if they were impolite.

Posted by: zico_zico on January 31, 2006 10:09 AM

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