[lit-ideas] Re: Muhammed and the Giant Peach
- From: P.H.Lundbech <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:25:16 +0100
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:18:39 +0000 (GMT), Judith Evans
<judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Ah. I'd read that there were some fake cartoons but
>not how they fitted in to the story.
It's actually much worse. The delegation that travelled to the
middle east seeking support for the protests against
Jyllands-Posten, claimed to represent almost 30 danish muslim
organisations and thereby a majority of Denmarks 200000 muslims.
In fact many individuals and organisations were placed on the
list without having been asked. Some organisations listed didn't
even exist. Some newspapers report that the delegation
represented no more than maybe a thousand fundamentalists.
Something also worth mentioning, is Jyllands-Postens motive for
printing these cartoons. Fl. Rose (a Jyllands-Posten editor)
explained in a TV interview, that one of the reasons for
publishing the cartoons, was stories of two european museums (one
in Sweden, the other one, I think, was Tate) removing items from
exhibitions out of the fear of insulting muslims, the murder of
the dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, as well as the story of
danish auther Kåre Bluitgen, who had trouble finding an
illustrator for a childrens book about Islam. The newspaper had
concerns about the state of the free speech rights in Denmark and
Europe.
A question one ought to ask oneself, is how many of the
demonstrators in the arabic countries have seen the cartoons,
when none of their newspapers have printed them and no arabic
TV-stations has shown them? Do they know what they are angry
about?
P. H. Lundbech
Odense, DK
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