| Submit your comments on this article |
| Europe |
| More on the cartoon brew-ha-ha |
| 2006-02-03 |
| SNIPS BELOW SNIP PARIS (Reuters) - Denmark said on Friday it could not apologize for cartoons in a Danish newspaper depicting the Prophet Mohammad as outrage spread across the Muslim world from the Middle East to countries in Asia. More European newspapers published the cartoons on Friday, arguing freedom of speech was sacred, but angry Muslims staged violent protests against jokes they consider "blasphemous." "Neither the Danish government nor the Danish nation as such can be held responsible for drawings published in a Danish newspaper," Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after meeting with Muslim envoys in Copenhagen. "A Danish government can never apologize on behalf of a free and independent newspaper," he said. "This is basically a dispute between some Muslims and a newspaper." Yep, I'd agree with that assessment. Heck, as others here know, they do it all the time in cartoons to the Joooos and Christians. SNIP Up to 300 hardline Islamic activists in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, went on a rampage in the lobby of a building housing the Danish embassy in Jakarta. Shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest), they smashed lamps with bamboo sticks, threw chairs, lobbed rotten eggs and tomatoes and tore up a Danish flag. No one was hurt. Guess they haven't learned the fine art of seething and gun sex, yet, eh? SNIP Mona Omar Attia, Egypt's ambassador to Denmark, said after a meeting with Rasmussen that she was satisfied with the position of the Danish government but noted the prime minister had said he could not interfere with the press. What's a female doin' "representin'" Egypt? Guess they're a little more liberal than their recent elections showed, eh? "This means the whole story will continue and that we are back to square one again. The government of Denmark has to do something to appease the Muslim world," Attia said. The gov't has to appease the Muslims? How 'bout you start appeasing us, by not blowing us up every chance you get? Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yuri Thamrin said the dispute was not just between Jakarta and Copenhagen. "It involves the whole Islamic world vis-a-vis Denmark and vis-a-vis the trend of Islamophobia," he said. There's that word again...Islamophobia....literally "the fear of Islam". Nope, I don't think we're afraid of ya, and if you keep it up, we'll show you how "fearful" we really are. |
| Posted by:BA |
| #1 "The government of Denmark has to do something to appease the Muslim world . . . " BIG mistake. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-02-03 15:37 |