"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> Curly Sue wrote:
>
>>
>> There is no other explanation for waving a red flag at a bull other
>> than to provoke.
>>
>
> That may be, but it was not the Danish people or the Danish government
> that waved
> a proverbial red flag. It was the action of the editors of a newspaper.
> The
> government's big sin is that the prime minister refused to have a meeting
> with
> some Islamic embassadors to discuss it because he thought that it was an
> issue of
> free speech.
>

What I find particularly troubling is that when the original cartoons were
circulated in the Muslim world, some persons unknown added additional and
even more offensive cartoons that they created, attributing them to the
Danish newspaper, to further inflame the population. While much more
blatant, this is akin to the continual program of disinformation from the
Bush administration, with the willing help of Fox News and other servile
"news" outlets, to whip up public support for the war and their other
policies.

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Peter Aitken
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