Re: Danish paper apologizes
- From: Studley <studley@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:44:02 GMT
Count 1 wrote:
After viewing the 'cartoons', a very generous term for those doodles, I have to say I agree an apology was in order. We civilized westerners shouldn't be printing material designed to insult any of the world's major religions in our newspapers.
That might be true if islam were a religion but it's not. It's a very evil, dangerous CULT. Anyone that reads the koran and hadiths that believes otherwise has a very weak brain.
Unless, of course, its actually funny.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1698673,00.html (...) In a lengthy statement the editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten admitted that the 12 cartoons, one of which depicted Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, had caused "serious misunderstandings". Carsten Juste said: "The 12 cartoons ... were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims, for which we apologise."
Mr Juste spoke out hours after Scandinavians were warned against travelling to Gaza and the West Bank after the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade demanded that all Swedes and Danes leave the territories. An Iraqi militant group joined the protests when it called for attacks against Danish and Norwegian targets after a Norwegian newspaper ran the cartoons.
Danish businesses started to take fright yesterday after religious leaders in Saudi Arabia, which last week recalled its ambassador to Copenhagen, called for a boycott of Danish goods. The dairy group Arla Foods reported that two of its staff in Saudi Arabia had been beaten by angry customers. This prompted Arla's executive director to press the Danish government to take action. Peder Tuborgh said: "I urgently beg the government to enter a positive dialogue with the many millions of Muslims who feel they have been offended by Denmark."
Amid this atmosphere, Jyllands-Posten finally admitted it had made a mistake, and published an apology on its website. (...) ***
I blame feminism.
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