>

> 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)...

Is this the same paper that wants to republish holocaust cartoons?

yes, i think it is....

Lena