Angry protest over prophet cartoons (again)

[sandinista! 1,816]

Two things spring to mind. What does the law in Denmark say about it? The UK have hate crimes regarding religion, I believe - which, possibly, this depiction could come under. Does Denmark? Secondly - cultural sensitivity. Just because I have the right to say something, doesn't mean I should or have to. If I were to wander around Utah, I wouldn't feel the need to go out of way to yell that Joseph Smith was a fraud.

As long as you are legally allowed to voice your opinion it is your choice what you choose to do. You have a right to exercise that choice and not be silence by a bunch of violent thugs.

In Denmark there appears to be no law to prevent the newspapers voicing the opinion they did. Therefore they can regardless of what the Koran might say. Unless you are Muslim who cares what the Koran might say, in the same way say a Hindu might not feel obliged to comply with something the bible says.

actually...Denmark is no paragon of free speech. Article 140 of the Criminal Code allows for a fine and up to four months of imprisonment for demeaning a "recognized religious community." Mogens Glistrup, a tax protester turned xenophobe, was imprisoned for 20 days last year for a racist speech. He compared Turks to rabbits. Back in 1975, Jens Jorgen Thorsen, a multimedia artist belonging to the "situationist school," had a government grant provided to make a film about Jesus taken away. Five thousand young Christians had demonstrated in the street of Copenhagen against Thorsen and his movie and tumultuous scenes broke out.

The Danish right has only recently been converted to the free speech principle, and has its own idea of how to use it. In the past two years, the Danish People's Party has twice proposed to eliminate the blasphemy paragraph. Two of the party's members, Jesper Langballe and Soren Krarup, both pastors in the Lutheran National Church, have described Muslims as "a cancer on Danish society" in speeches in parliament. They want to be free to say it outside parliament too. The paragraph was not removed in part because of opposition from Lutheran clergy, who do not all share the two pastors' views.

[Risto 0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2VEBE-qX8

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I shall send a special "care packet" at once. Poor folks ought to be running out of matches soon.

Edited March 26, 2008 by Mr. Big Dog

[franklie 0]

this is the picture that upset Usama bin Laden. I guess it is upsetting, based on what previous posters have written, due to the word Muhammed in the drawing.

Personally I think it resembles slightly Sheik Usama on a bad hair day.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

this is the picture that upset Usama bin Laden. I guess it is upsetting, based on what previous posters have written, due to the word Muhammed in the drawing.

Personally I think it resembles slightly Sheik Usama on a bad hair day.

People in free societies need to remember that there is no right to NOT be offended.

[Risto 0]

this is the picture that upset Usama bin Laden. I guess it is upsetting, based on what previous posters have written, due to the word Muhammed in the drawing.

Personally I think it resembles slightly Sheik Usama on a bad hair day.

You think he will be less upset if “Mustafa” was written instead of “Muhammad”?