Posted on 01/17/2007 8:18:45 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
ALMOST a year after violent protests against Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the editor who commissioned the drawings said they had prompted a vital debate on the integration of Islam in the West.
Flemming Rose, culture editor of daily Jyllands-Postenm, said he had published the 12 cartoons depicting Mohammed to defend free expression against what he saw as self-censorship over Islam in Denmark and Europe.
The cartoons sparked protests by Muslims around the world in which at least 50 people died. Many Muslims regard any image of the Prophet as blasphemous.
“The cartoons didn't create a new reality, they just made an existing reality visible. This reality is about differences in culture that have been taboo to discuss in Europe,” Mr Rose said.
Mr Rose declined to say if he would publish the cartoons again but added he did not accept the premise that the protests and deaths were a direct result of the drawings.
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All it did was confirm how muslims act.
Kind of hard to have a rational debate, when most of the free world has never seen these cartoons. Thanks to our "couragous" press.
Yes, indeed. It was a good thing they did.
Muslims are .........
outraged
enraged
angered
rioting in the streets
killing Christians or priests in protest
blaming the state of Israel or the great satan America
.....all of the above..
yawn, what's new. Muslims are like spoiled, schizophrenic 2-year olds with a poopy diaper....just mad at the world and don't have the intelligence to communicate their needs or to manipulate their environment in order to get what they want.
A pathetic, petty and violent so called "culture" that hasn't produced an original thought till the suicide bomber vest.
They must be so proud.
Muzzies, do the world a favor. die....puhleeze.
and to finish your sentence: It was a good thing they did, because Muslim cultural values and morals are inherently incompatible with modern Western values and morals.
You forgot-- Shooting nuns.
mohammed is depicted on a wall at the Supreme Court. 'Think the muslims can get it removed?
Those who cannot laugh at themselves, are in a state of poor mental health. Just my take.
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