According to the Guardian, the editor of the Danish newspaper which printed the cartoons about which Muslims worldwide have been so upset and out of control, is apparently trying to get in touch with the Iranian newspaper which is running the Holocaust cartoon contest.
He says he wants to print the Holocaust cartoons the same day the Iranian paper does.
Now I think this guy has lost his marbles. In order to placate the Iranians he is going to run a bunch of antisemitic cartoons?
The Muslim cartoons were trying to make a point about suicide bombing in the name of the Prophet. What point will running the Holocaust cartoons make? That it's ok to insult Muslims if you also insult Jews?
If there were a specific incident involving Jews and/or Israel [which in his mind is probably one and the same] and he ran a cartoon which was offensive but made a point, I would probably be angry but I would understand the context.
But now there is no context. This is just pandering. The guy is probably trying to save the Danish economy ... and his own skin.
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I wonder what King Christian X would have said about a Danish newspaper publishing cartoons about the Holocaust. He rejected the Nazis anti-Jewish legislation in 1942, and helped save the vast majority of Danish Jews from the Gestapo.
Islam seems to have become the schoolyard bully, and trying to placate a bully only encourages them.
See the current report of the Guardian:
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Danish paper U-turns on Holocaust cartoons
Gwladys Fouché
Thursday February 9, 2006
Jyllands-Posten, the Danish daily that published the controversial Muhammad drawings, has made a dramatic U-turn on comments an executive made about using Holocaust caricatures.
The paper said it would under no circumstances publish the Holocaust cartoons that an Iranian newspaper, Hamshari, is planning to commission.
This U-turn comes after Jyllands-Posten's culture editor, Flemming Rose, yesterday told CNN that his paper was trying to get in touch with an Iranian paper with a view to running the Holocaust cartoons. Today, Jyllands-Posten said: "This information is based on an over-interpretation of a statement made by culture editor Flemming Rose.
"Jyllands-Posten in no circumstances will publish Holocaust cartoons from an Iranian newspaper," the paper said, in a statement posted on its website.
Mr Rose was quoted yesterday by CNN as saying: "My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with the Iranian newspaper, and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them."
Meanwhile, Jyllands-Posten has reiterated its apologies to Muslims for causing offence by publishing the original 12 cartoons, in a letter to the Algerian press. The letter was distributed via the Danish embassy in Algiers.
"We apologise for the great misunderstanding generated by the publication of the caricatures that showed the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and created aggressive feelings towards Denmark and calls for boycotts against Danish goods," the paper said.
"These caricatures have clearly offended millions of Muslims around the world and it is for these reasons that we are apologising and offering our deepest regrets for what has happened, which was not our intention."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoonprotests/story/0,,1706376,00.html
See the current report of the Guardian:
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Danish paper U-turns on Holocaust cartoons
Gwladys Fouché
Thursday February 9, 2006
Jyllands-Posten, the Danish daily that published the controversial Muhammad drawings, has made a dramatic U-turn on comments an executive made about using Holocaust caricatures.
The paper said it would under no circumstances publish the Holocaust cartoons that an Iranian newspaper, Hamshari, is planning to commission.
This U-turn comes after Jyllands-Posten's culture editor, Flemming Rose, yesterday told CNN that his paper was trying to get in touch with an Iranian paper with a view to running the Holocaust cartoons. Today, Jyllands-Posten said: "This information is based on an over-interpretation of a statement made by culture editor Flemming Rose.
"Jyllands-Posten in no circumstances will publish Holocaust cartoons from an Iranian newspaper," the paper said, in a statement posted on its website.
Mr Rose was quoted yesterday by CNN as saying: "My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with the Iranian newspaper, and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them."
Meanwhile, Jyllands-Posten has reiterated its apologies to Muslims for causing offence by publishing the original 12 cartoons, in a letter to the Algerian press. The letter was distributed via the Danish embassy in Algiers.
"We apologise for the great misunderstanding generated by the publication of the caricatures that showed the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and created aggressive feelings towards Denmark and calls for boycotts against Danish goods," the paper said.
"These caricatures have clearly offended millions of Muslims around the world and it is for these reasons that we are apologising and offering our deepest regrets for what has happened, which was not our intention."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoonprotests/story/0,,1706376,00.html
See the current report of the Guardian:
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Danish paper U-turns on Holocaust cartoons
Gwladys Fouché
Thursday February 9, 2006
Jyllands-Posten, the Danish daily that published the controversial Muhammad drawings, has made a dramatic U-turn on comments an executive made about using Holocaust caricatures.
The paper said it would under no circumstances publish the Holocaust cartoons that an Iranian newspaper, Hamshari, is planning to commission.
This U-turn comes after Jyllands-Posten's culture editor, Flemming Rose, yesterday told CNN that his paper was trying to get in touch with an Iranian paper with a view to running the Holocaust cartoons. Today, Jyllands-Posten said: "This information is based on an over-interpretation of a statement made by culture editor Flemming Rose.
"Jyllands-Posten in no circumstances will publish Holocaust cartoons from an Iranian newspaper," the paper said, in a statement posted on its website.
Mr Rose was quoted yesterday by CNN as saying: "My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with the Iranian newspaper, and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them."
Meanwhile, Jyllands-Posten has reiterated its apologies to Muslims for causing offence by publishing the original 12 cartoons, in a letter to the Algerian press. The letter was distributed via the Danish embassy in Algiers.
"We apologise for the great misunderstanding generated by the publication of the caricatures that showed the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and created aggressive feelings towards Denmark and calls for boycotts against Danish goods," the paper said.
"These caricatures have clearly offended millions of Muslims around the world and it is for these reasons that we are apologising and offering our deepest regrets for what has happened, which was not our intention."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoonprotests/story/0,,1706376,00.html
And there is more ...
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Cartoon editor placed 'on leave'
Copenhagen (dpa) - The Danish newspaper at the centre of the Mohammed caricature row sent its cultural editor Flemming Rose on an extended enforced leave of absence Thursday.
The Jyllands Posten was reacting to Rose's plan from Tuesday to publish caricatures of Jesus as well as caricatures of the Holocaust planned by Iran.
The editorial board had denied that it planned to publish the caricatures in the newspaper.
The board said the decision to send Rose on enforced leave was due to the amount of pressure the chief editor of the newspaper's cultural section had been under in recent weeks.
Rose initiated the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed at the end of September.
He defended the caricatures, which led to protests worldwide by Muslims, as an attempt to test what he said was the increasing tendency towards self-censorship in the media with regard to Islam.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=78584
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