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Islamophobia: no! Free Speech: Yes

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Sunday February 19, 2006 22:02author by hs Report this post to the editors

Peter Manson analyses the furore over the Danish cartoon controversy

This whole episode started in what appeared to be a harmless way. Danish author Kåre Bluitgen wanted to write a children’s book on the life of Mohammed, but was unable to find an artist prepared to illustrate it for him (ironically the book has since been published, complete with illustrations, although the artist insisted on anonymity). The editors of Jyllands-Posten claim they decided to test out this unwillingness to depict the prophet by asking 25 cartoonists to send then an image of Mohammed “as they saw him”. Thirteen refused, but the other 12 were all published in the newspaper. There seems little doubt that the exercise was intended as a provocation.

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/612/cartoons.htm

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Muslims have a different definition of Islamophobia than we have     Cliff    Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:51 
   have you ever faced an angry mob Cliff?     brave boy    Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:56 
   free speech     pat c    Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:07 
   no one expects the inquisition.     grrrrrrrrrrrrrr    Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:28 
   islamic trio     pat c    Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:44 
   By the same token     Agent Provocateur    Mon Feb 20, 2006 13:41 
   agent provocateur     pat c    Mon Feb 20, 2006 13:56 
   btw     pat c    Mon Feb 20, 2006 14:04 
   There goes Pat C Trolling himself     eeekkkkkk    Mon Feb 20, 2006 14:41 
 10   eeeek     pat c    Mon Feb 20, 2006 14:47 
 11   Simple Truths     Agent Provacateur    Mon Feb 20, 2006 14:47 
 12   I'm not a troll Pat.     eeekkkk    Mon Feb 20, 2006 14:51 
 13   ap     pat c    Mon Feb 20, 2006 14:57 
 14   eeek     pat c    Mon Feb 20, 2006 14:58 
 15   WSM & Islam     pat c    Mon Feb 20, 2006 15:31 
 16   What free speech means     Cliff    Mon Feb 20, 2006 18:46 
 17   Nigerian Muslim protestors burn churches, kill priest     pat c    Mon Feb 20, 2006 19:07 
 18   agent provocatruer     james    Tue Feb 21, 2006 01:17 
 19   Consistency?     Dr.Nightdub    Tue Feb 21, 2006 02:00 
 20   Equality of Criticiscm     Danish Pastry    Tue Feb 21, 2006 02:38 
 21   dr nightclub     pat c    Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:07 
 22   danish pastry     pat c    Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:11 
 23   james     pat c    Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:20 


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