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Topic: Religions > Atheism
User: "Michael Gray"
Date: 11 Oct 2006 10:20:19 PM
Object: News: Denmark rocked by new cartoon row
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6033075.stm
The Danish prime minister has denounced the drawing of new cartoons
mocking the Prophet Muhammad by members of an anti-immigration party's
youth wing.
"Anders Fogh Rasmussen intervened in an apparent effort to prevent a
repeat of the widespread protests over similar cartoons a year ago.
Danish People's Party activists were shown on TV drawing the images,
which were condemned in the Muslim world.
Iran and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said the new cartoons insulted
Islam.
Iran protested to the Danish government on Sunday, saying it was
"deplorable that the extremist elements in Danish society have
attempted to sabotage Denmark's relations with the Islamic countries
once again".
'Tasteless' drawings
The activists were filmed at a summer camp, drinking, singing and
taking part in a competition to draw images of Muhammad, including one
depicting him as a camel with beer bottles as humps.
The publication a year ago of newspaper cartoons - one depicting
Muhammad with a bomb in his turban - led to violent protests in which
more than 50 people died in Muslim countries.
Mr Rasmussen, who insisted then that he could not control independent
media, condemned the latest drawings as "tasteless" and
"unacceptable".
He said the activists' behaviour "in no way represents the way the
Danish people... view Muslims or Islam".
Danish Muslim leaders, who last year travelled abroad to rally support
for their protests, said they would not be provoked by the latest
incident, the BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott
reports."
.

User: "thomas p."

Title: Re: News: Denmark rocked by new cartoon row 13 Oct 2006 06:50:34 AM
Michael Gray wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6033075.stm

The Danish prime minister has denounced the drawing of new cartoons
mocking the Prophet Muhammad by members of an anti-immigration party's
youth wing.

"Anders Fogh Rasmussen intervened in an apparent effort to prevent a
repeat of the widespread protests over similar cartoons a year ago.

Danish People's Party activists were shown on TV drawing the images,
which were condemned in the Muslim world.

Iran and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said the new cartoons insulted
Islam.

Iran protested to the Danish government on Sunday, saying it was
"deplorable that the extremist elements in Danish society have
attempted to sabotage Denmark's relations with the Islamic countries
once again".

'Tasteless' drawings

The activists were filmed at a summer camp, drinking, singing and
taking part in a competition to draw images of Muhammad, including one
depicting him as a camel with beer bottles as humps.

The publication a year ago of newspaper cartoons - one depicting
Muhammad with a bomb in his turban - led to violent protests in which
more than 50 people died in Muslim countries.

Mr Rasmussen, who insisted then that he could not control independent
media, condemned the latest drawings as "tasteless" and
"unacceptable".

He said the activists' behaviour "in no way represents the way the
Danish people... view Muslims or Islam".

Danish Muslim leaders, who last year travelled abroad to rally support
for their protests, said they would not be provoked by the latest
incident, the BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott
reports."

Everything Rasmussen says in the article above is correct. What he
leaves out is that his government relies on the parliamentary support
of this party, without which his government would collapse. In my
opinion his acceptance of their support clearly demonstrates his
hypocrisy.
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