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michael · super moderator Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Posts: 981

On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a series of 12 images of Mohammed, founder of Islam. The intention was not to insult Islam, but to highlight how artists had become too scared to tackle Islam head-on. The issue stemmed from attempts by Kare Blultgen, a Danish author, to find illustrators to provide pictures for a children's book he had written about Mohammed, founder of Islam. Blultgen said he found no artist willing to take the risk of depicting Mohammed. As a result, Jyllands-Posten invited artists from across Denmark to submit their pictures.

There was limited reaction within Denmark, until Palestinian-born radical cleric Ahmed Abu Laban, who ran the Waqfs mosque in Copenhagen, decided to send a delegation to tour the Middle East. The delegation brought a dossier containing the cartoons. Dishonestly, Laban added three pictures which were never printed by Jyllands-Posten. One of these was a crude drawing of Mohammed, emblazoned with the word "pedophile", while another purported to be a picture of Mohammed as a pig. This was a photocopy of a photograph of the winner of a French pig-squealing competition, and had no relation to the Danish cartoons

Did you see the cartoons the first time around? The second printing has seen the same reaction in the Danish homeland. Do you feel it is an attack against freedom? Even though I don't consider the cartoons much I feel freedom of expression is under attack.

Read about it all Here
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Midlander · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject:

"On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a series of 12 images of Mohammed, founder of Islam. The intention was not to insult Islam, but to highlight how artists had become too scared to tackle Islam head-on."

Hmm....this is re-writing history a little!! That is not why the cartoons were published!

Regarding the other - I find it very hard to believe that two of the men were Tunisian. They are the least militant of all the muslim countries.
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GardenTalker · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject:

I thought the explanation for the first printing was fairly accurate - wikki says
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy

licquorice · super poster Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Posts: 111

We should salute the Danes !