Cartoon to riot by

[Behind the Aegis]

This was was published in Bahrain.


Akhbar al-Khalij, January 29, 2006 (Bahrain)
As the Islamic world reacted with anger to caricatures of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper, this cartoon claimed the controversy was a result of “The Penetration of Zionism to Denmark.” The cheese, shaped like a Star of David, is labeled “Danish products.” The text on the far left reads, “Boycott it!”


So, we have a cartoon that blames the Jews (Zionists) for the cartoons and calls for a boycott of Danish diary products.

Free press? Hate speech? Justification for destruction of the embassies of Bahrain in countries with large Jewish populations?

On edit: title change and do notice the worms crawling from the cheese!

[PBass]

1. familiar sounding rationalization

Reminds me a bit of the whiney Republican phrase "But Clinton did it too!"

Perhaps a comprehensive list is needed, documenting every offensive cartoon ever printed anywhere.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Perhaps you missed the...

:sarcasm:?

[breakfastofchampions]

3. Better yet

We should realize that offensive cartoons are printed from all sides and that anyone who gets worked up about them is a fool. And anyone who defends those who get worked up are even bigger fools.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Maybe.

Everyone has the "right" to be offended. However, not everyone has the "right" to burn buildings to the ground because they are "offended."

[PBass]

6. Why not?

It's just an embassy. If the Danes (or the French or anyone else) don't feel like diplomacy with the Mid East is something that they value, then screw 'em. Send them packing.

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[PBass]

10. I'm not endorsing violence

I'm not condemning the burning of an embassy either.

I guess my funadamental response to this wholly manufactured controversey is that I refuse to use this as an excuse to froth at the mouth re: Islam.

You go ahead and knock yourself out, though.

[Behind the Aegis]

11. No frothing needed.

Just as all Muslims should not be held accountable for the actions of those in Syria and Lebanon that reacted with violence, not all Danes or Norwegians should be held accountable.

However, I find it interesting that you do not condemn the burning of buildings. Sounds like collective punishment to me. Or, did you mean you are not "condoning" the burnings?

[Behind the Aegis]

9. Collective punishment?

So why not praise the cartoons? Especially the one showing Muslims (collectively) as terrorists? Oh wait...collective generalizations are not usually considered a liberal value.

[malaise]

5. More importantly

when Denmark signed on to the invasion of Iraq and assisted with the slaughter of innocents, people should realize that the rage goes way beyond a cartoon.

And it would be nice to know who owns the newspapers that have been pushing these cartoons way since September when the Danish paper carried it.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. here...

Main papers


Jyllands-Posten



Based: Viby
Founded: 1871
Circulation: 166,000
Owner: JP/Politikens Hus A/S


Perhaps surprisingly, Denmark's biggest-selling paper, the broadsheet Jyllands-Posten, is based in Jutland rather than Copenhagen. The paper supported the Conservative Party at the start of the 20th century and worked in partnership with Britain's The Times and Daily Telegraph in the 1930s. It dropped its party affiliation in 1938 and now describes itself as "liberal and independent". Jyllands-Posten was the first Danish daily to introduce colour photographs in 1954 and the first to launch itself on the internet in 1995.



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[malaise]

12. Not the Danish paper

the others. That paper published the cartoon in September - why the sudden republication and by whom?

[Behind the Aegis]

13. That I don't know...

...I'd have to look up what the other papers were, then look for who owned them.