Posted on 02/01/2006 8:07:10 AM PST by Sometimes A River
Both a French and a German newspaper have reprinted a series of 12 Danish newspaper cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad that have sparked protests in the Muslim world.
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Because no religious dogma can impose its view on a democratic and secular society, France Soir publishes the incriminated cartoons," the paper said
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The German Welt daily put one of the drawings on its front page on Wednesday, saying the picture was "harmless" and regretting that the Danish Jyllands-Posten daily had apologised for causing offense.
"Democracy is the institutionalised form of freedom of expression," the paper said in a front-page commentary.
"There is no right to protection from satire in the West; there is a right to blasphemy."
It has now spread to Italy and Spain (La Stampa in Italy and El Periodico in Spain).
Denmark
Norway
France
Germany
Let's see if the Mohammedans can boycott all Western nations.
Norway already apologized.
But of course, all an apology does is usher in a fresh set of demands: Norwegian Muslims want blasphemy law http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569348/posts
If any native Frenchman or German said in public that the presence of these Muslim immigrants is illegitimate and de facto racism his government would clap him in jail and these same newspapers would applaud. They've helped crush freedom of expression before, indeed the present looming threat of sharia is built on that prior crushing of freedom.
*Any* image of Mohammed, Aisha, Allah etc. draws their ire and calls for the beheading of the "offender."
Even if it's in a good light.
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