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Speaking about Jyllands-Posten and why they published the famous Mohammad cartoons, Flemming Rose, the editor of Jyllands-Posten, wrote:
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Why Flemming Rose Published Those Cartoons
Speaking about Jyllands-Posten and why they published the famous Mohammad cartoons, Flemming Rose, the editor of Jyllands-Posten, wrote:Has Jyllands-Posten insulted and disrespected Islam? It certainly didn't intend to. But what does respect mean? When I visit a mosque, I show my respect by taking off my shoes. I follow the customs, just as I do in a church, synagogue or other holy place. But if a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And that is incompatible with a secular democracy.The whole article is well worth reading: Why I Published Those Cartoons. You can write to him here: [email protected].
As a former correspondent in the Soviet Union, I am sensitive about calls for censorship on the grounds of insult. This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders. That is what happened to human rights activists and writers such as Andrei Sakharov, Vladimir Bukovsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Natan Sharansky, Boris Pasternak. The regime accused them of anti-Soviet propaganda, just as some Muslims are labeling 12 cartoons in a Danish newspaper anti-Islamic.
The lesson from the Cold War is: If you give in to totalitarian impulses once, new demands follow. The West prevailed in the Cold War because we stood by our fundamental values and did not appease totalitarian tyrants.
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...when it comes to dealing with Islamomaniacs. From Weasel Zippers, citing the Telegraph: Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered Muslims by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad 10 years ago, will not republish Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons...
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If I am not mistaken, they are the first major American print publication to run the cartoons. I wonder what Borders will do about this: Controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have been reprinted in a U.S. magazine with commentary by...
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Like getting an Oscar and an Emmy!! The Jyllands-Posten Newspaper has won the Victor Prize as well as The Winston Churchill Golden Balls Award. Quite an accomplishment by anyone's standards! Copenhagen - Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which...
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This is my first post on this blog, actually it's my first post on a blog ever! I'm a student living in the current front line in this rising war between the west and the arab world, Denmark. I guess many people around the world really don't...