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| Good read : "Danish Cartoons, Manipulation or Capitulation?" |
| 2006-02-24 |
| Long (needs to be p. 49-ed) but interesting.Translated from the French: Caricatures danoises : l’intolérable manipulation face à l’inacceptable capitulation In the past weeks, one of Western democracy's essential principles, freedom of speech, has been under attack. With a number of exclusive informations, we shall attempt here to establish a frame of reference to help understand the context of the current situation. A short recap of the facts On September 30, 2005, a Danish newspaper, the Jylland-Posten, published twelve cartoons representing the prophet Muhammad. One showed him wearing a bomb-shaped turban with a lit fuse. The newspaper chose to commission those cartoons after the Danish author Kare Bluitgen expressed regrets that he could not find an artist who'd dare illustrate his book on Muhammad. On October 19, 2005, eleven ambassadors from Muslim countries, posted in Denmark, formally protested against the cartoons. At the time, the Danish Prime Minister refused to receive them. On December 29, 2005, the Arab League condemned the cartoons. On January 10, 2006, a Norwegian paper, Magazinet, published the cartoons. On January 23, 2006, a boycott of Danish products was launched from Saudi Arabia. On February 1st, the French daily France-Soir published the twelve Danish cartoons. The same evening, the paper's managing director, Jacques Lefranc, was fired by the paper's owner, the French-Egyptian businessman Raymond Lakah. On February 8, the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, published all twelve cartoons as well as a number of cartoons of their own on the subject. By the end of January, 2006, European embassies as well as cultural centers located in Muslim countries were trashed in the name of the defense of Islam. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #3 Abbas Salimi Namin, head of Iran's Daftare Motaleat va Tadvin Tarikh institute (Institute on the Study of History) claims that the reaction of Moslems against the insults of the foreign media is normal and warns that one should expect even harsher reactions from the Islamic world if the insults continue. He rejected the view that Moslem should restrict their protests to the confines of the law and said one could not expect people to react within a certain framework and observe self-discipline because the insults were more destructive than the violence the protesters had caused. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2006-02-24 18:28 |
| #2 I think it is correct to say they live in France. But based on their posts, I'm not so sure they are French. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-02-24 18:05 |
| #1 And from the French, no less! Hey! My last name is French. I suspect a5089 and I'm sure JFM are French, and I meant no offense to them, just a bit of dry humor! It IS a good article! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-02-24 17:54 |