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Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Date:
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Tue, 7 Feb 2006 02:24:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Hey all,
Have you guys seen
this story?
A Danish newspaper printed several cartoons of Mohammed last September and
this has led to complaints to the UN, death threats, and boycotts of Danish
goods in some Arab nations (which is how I first saw the story on
ILENN, because many of the news
stories say boycott Danish products including ... LEGO ...). Then this
morning I saw it in the Post because several other European newspapers reran
the cartoons in solidarity with the Danish paper, and apparently the editor
of one French paper got sacked over this. You can see the cartoons in
question on this
blog.
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I don’t normally check out off-topic. Glad I did.
I have no interest or knowledge in the religious beliefs of other people and nor
should I be required too. So if I see a news report that believers in some
religion about which I know nothing choose to make their patron saint or other
supernatural icon a rallying point for international bad behaviour, then
wouldn’t I be entitled to create derisive cartooning of them based on my only
view of their world - CNN - showing yobs throwing stones or, for the more
advanced, using hand-me-down explosives ?
JB
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