Posted on 02/10/2006 6:34:53 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite
World leaders appealed for an end to protests enflamed by further provocation efforts in the cartoon crisis currently straining relations between the Islamic World and the West.
On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin pleaded with the Danish administration to apologize for the drawings that satirized the Muslim values.
In separate interviews to El Pais and El Mundo, two famous Spanish newspapers, Mr. Putin condemned the publication of cartoons for creating a larger gap between different religious groups, at the same time provoking them into acts of violence.
Mr. Putin's evaluation of the cartoons crisis was based on his deprecating comments that the drawings offend the notion of religion; such events should not be tolerable as long as the Danish government does not apologize for what has happened, let alone take action to inhibit such cartoons from being published. "When we denounce child porn, we do not hide behind freedom of press as an excuse for it," Mr. Putin emphasized.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said that there is an urgent need to translate the Alliance of Civilizations from theory into practice, a point that both Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Spanish counterpart Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero called attention to.
An "immediate rendering of the alliance of civilizations into action" is the real solution to the existing problems among the Arabs as well as the Muslims and the Westerners over conception and discernment, said Mr. Moratinos in an address to the Spanish Senate.
In France, President Jacques Chirac urged action to stop the crisis that is closely linked to demonstrations.
In the US, President George W. Bush found violent protests over the cartoon issue deplorable, but nevertheless said that free news media may publish such drawings.
The drawings were first published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and were then re-printed in several other European newspapers, eliciting anger from Muslims worldwide.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen apologized to Muslims while justifying the issue as freedom of press.
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Children are running the world.
Yeah, appease the group of people that want to kill us. Great strategy, idiots. Perfectly acceptable to publish anything at all that is offensive to Christianity though.
Grrr ...
Putin should bite me.
Children would do a better job - their minds have yet to be warped by evil ideology...
Pootie poot is a commie. Looks like the Red-Brown-Green alliance heats up.
Denmark should tell Putin to go $%^& himself.
I would prefer that we come to loggerheads over cartoons ... than nuclear power. I'd rather come to an understanding NOW.
No, they should never apologize for something as insignificant as a few comics.
Apologize? Heck, the rest of America is going capitlistic crazy with this cartoon thing. More people will visions of Mohammed alot more often.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/02/visions-of-mohammed-in-3d.html
Last thing he needs to be bothered with is what's going on in Denmark.
Screw off, Putin!
Vile, sadistic madmen are running the world.
Never. We have nothing to apologize them for. I'm ashamed that my (Polish) government apologized for printing those pictures in a private (!) newspaper. They want to hate us, let them.
What does the baboon know about the freedom of the press, besides that he - instinctively - does not like it?
We'll tell you that you should have apologized.
Putin's got a lot of nerve telling anyone to apologize.
I wonder if he would apologize for Stalin murdering or being responsible for about 100 million or more people dying throughout history.
The Russians are exceeded only by Mao and the Chinese for killing more people through out history.
Those evil Danes, how many have they killed? Maybe about zero. Well maybe a few drunks on Carlsberg, butter cookies and ham.
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