[Peace-discuss] FW: Riots

[Lisa Chason]

musings from a friend of mine in Euroland
 
 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:11 AM
Subject: Riots


Just watched the escalating madness over the Danish cartoons on the morning
news, and read the article at
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2006/070206muslimriots.htm.
 
Cant help wondering- who owns the Danish paper? The Danes are normally a
very considerate and sensitive bunch and not generally known for provoking
racial hatred. On the contrary.
 
How DID the people of Gaza City - where there is over 50% unemployment and
it's a battle to get an egg - get hundreds of Danish flags?
 
Why all of a sudden now, months after publication?
 
How come it's all over the Islamic world simultaneously in countries that
have nothing else in common except an Islamic population, which are all of
different sects, that hate each other as much, or more than they hate our
freedom? Where the majority of people don't have access to TV and definitely
don't read newspapers - or definitely not Danish ones anyway?
 
Even the Salman Rushdie affair didn't cause as much upset. It's not just
some mad mullah stirring it up. The whole thing stinks.
 
Danish paper rejected Jesus cartoons 

Gwladys Fouché and agencies
Monday February 6, 2006 


Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of
the prophet Muhammad that have caused a storm of protest throughout the
Islamic world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ, it has
emerged today. 

The Danish daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the
grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny. 


In April 2003, Danish illustrator Christoffer Zieler submitted a series of
unsolicited cartoons dealing with the resurrection of Christ to
Jyllands-Posten. 



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