Time for a Tuborg
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the prime minister of Denmark, told the Danish newspaper Politiken that the issue had gone beyond a row between Copenhagen and the Muslim world and now centred on western free speech versus taboos in Islam. He said: “We are talking about an issue with fundamental significance to how democracies work.”
telegraph
And a block of Halvarti and time to play with some Lego. Various whacked out Islamists - not content with trying to ban Piglet - have got their knickers knotted over a bunch of Danish cartoons. Boycotts, a day of anger, “a clash of civilizations”.
OK, here’s the deal. In Western, non-medieval, liberal, democratic countries you can publish cartoons which are, frankly, offensive. We are grown ups and we can deal with it. Note to the Islamists - you are not grown ups if you are going to have a tantrum when your sky God or his Prophet take a hit. However, you have a choice: leave.
The rest of the Muslim population are very welcome to stay. But on our terms, not the terms of a misty caliphate or some lunatic in a cave or illiberal Koranic interpreter who believes that the 13th century was as good as it got.
Update: A Muslim who gets it Kamal Nawash Thanks Kathy.
Written by jay on February 3rd, 2006 with
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#1. February 3rd, 2006, at 6:17 PM.
You are not suggesting people are not allowed to protest things you disagree with, are you? Do you think this reported in the Globe is wrong:
“”We are not terrorists, we are not anarchists, but we are against those people who blaspheme Islam,” one of the Indonesian protesters shouted outside the building, which also houses several other foreign missions. The demonstrators, who wore white Arabic-style robes, pelted the building with eggs before pushing their way past security guards into the building’s plush lobby.”
My God. Egging. Next they’ll be poisoning the water supply.