Michel Boucher wrote:

> Dave Smith > wrote in
> :
>
> > Look at the stink that was raised 5 months after a Danish
> > newspaper published a few seemingly harmless cartoons and their
> > government refused to act because it infringed on free speech.
> > Could you imagine what would happen if a western country dared to
> > force a Moslem owned business not to discriminate.
>
> Are you seriously suggesting that the Jyllands-Posten, a conservative
> anti-immigration newspaper with an avowed anti-islamic stance before
> the event, did not know that the caricatures would result in a major
> upset among muslims?


Maybe the Muslims simply need to grow up....maybe take a coupla courses
in anger management or something.



> See Decision by the Council of the Press in a matter of race
> discrimination brought against the Jyllands-Posten, Copenhagen March
> 20th, 2002:
>
> "Regardless the current debate about crimes committed by refugees and
> immigrants we find that in the concrete case it is irrelevant to
> mention the nationality of the two [Somali] sisters. In publishing
> this information the newspaper has violated good press ethics,
> according to section C. 4 in the guiding rules for good press ethics,
> and therefore the council finds a basis for stating criticism of the
> newspaper. Section C 4. states: "Any mention of family relations,
> occupation, race, nationality, faith or relationship to an
> organisation ought to be avoided, unless this has a direct relevance
> to the case."
>
> http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOC_/ACCN...25-afgrTARGET=
>
> Originally pro-fascist, the Jyllands-Posten has recent published a
> number of racist and specifically anti-islamic comic books:
>
> "Disguised as a Dane - a commentary to the current migration of
> peoples." (1994) The frontcover shows a man dressed in Arabic attire,
> shocked by his mirror image which shows him in Western dress.
>
> "Other published books include Ayaan Hirsi Ali "I Accuse". The well
> known Somali dissident who was officially recieved by the Prime
> Minister during the build up to Mohammed cartoon crisis. And Irshad
> Manji's book "The Problem with Islam" (2005)."
>
> It seems on the face of it to be a question of freedom of speech, but
> really it's a thin disguise for racism and hate literature.


Or maybe it's simply a matter of priniciple, e.g. taking a stance
against the seeming "sharia - zation" climate that increasingly
surrounds the discussion of Muslim issues in the secular West...

Make no mistake, these Muslim thugs intend to rule by fear. And one of
their first goals is the shutting down of any open discussion about
their religion and it's effects on the secular world. It's happening in
Europe and even on the flat distant plains of central Ilinois, e.g. the
firing of some of the editorial staff of the University of Illinois
paper _The Daily Illini_ after they decided to publish some of the
cartoons (google for the contretemps)...

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Best
Greg