Dave Smith > writes:
>Curly Sue wrote:

>> The media sources which printed and reprinted the cartoons knew what
>> they were doing and where this would lead.

>How could they know that it would lead to violent demonstrations and acts
>of arson?

Don't be disingenuous. The cartoons (there are 13 of them) are almost
entirely negative and were the product of months of newspapers provoking
and criticising the Muslims in their country. They did it to
antagonize, end of story.

>by the editors of the paper. It was not the Danish people. It was not the
>Danish Government.

Good point. I haven't seen anyone on any of the political blogs I go
to who has been able to justify boycotting a Danish cheesemaker because
of these cartoons. People have to boycott or complain or whatever to
make their point, I guess.
The newspaper had the right to publish the cartoons, but they also
have a responsiblity which I feel they shirked, and now unrelated
businesses are suffering for it, plus they deliberately provoked an
entire religion of 1.6 billion people. What could they have hoped to
accomplish?
Or, should I say, Mission Accomplished?

Stacia