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Danish Muslims to take cartoon case to UN
 STOCKHOLM - Danish Muslim organisations are to take the Mohammed cartoon case to the United Nations High Commisioner for Human Rights in Geneva, the Danish Islamic Community organisation said on Friday.
| "Our human rights wuz violated! They drew pitchers of the Profit!" |
The move came after Danish State Attorney Henning Fode on Thursday ruled that the controversial drawings of the prophet Mohammed published in daily Jyllands-Posten did not violate Danish blasphemy and racism laws.
"What part of the concept of 'free press' is beyond your comprehension?"
"All of it." |
The UN is the natural place for us to file our complaint, Islamic Community spokesman Kasem Said Ahmad told the Ritzau national news agency on Friday. Muslims living in the Islamic world have greater confidence in the United Nations than in the European Union, he said. The state attorneys ruling was lousy.
| More confidence in the U.N.? Now isn't that a telling statement. |
| If they'd gotten their way, they'd have thought it was just ducky. |
Ahmad Akkari, the Imam in Denmarks second city Aarhus, accused Denmark of breaching UN human rights conventions.
| "It clearly sez in the UN Convention of Human Rights that you can't draw funny pictures of the Profit! You can look it up!" |
Our point is that in failing to censure Jyllands-Posten, Denmark has committed a breach of its duties as a signatory of UN conventions on human and political rights as well as international agreements on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, he said in a statement issued late Thursday.
| Your point is on the top of your head. Our point is that free speech means just that, including the right to offend. |
The Danish Islamic Community is an umbrella organisation for 27 Muslim organisations throughout Denmark. The organisation had previously said it might take its case to the European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg. Of Denmarks 5.3 million people, 200,000 are Muslims.
| And the tail is trying to wag the dog. |
Posted by: Steve White 2006-03-18 |
