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Politiken ‘all alone’ after apology for Prophet Muhammad cartoon - journalist
Published: 26 February, 2010, 21:07
Edited: 01 March, 2010, 06:19
TAGS: Religion, Scandal, Europe, Mass media
A Danish newspaper, The Politiken, has apologized for offending Muslims over its printing of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad five years ago.
The incident sparked fierce protests throughout the Muslim world and intense debate about freedom of speech.
The Politiken newspaper says its apology was part of a settlement with a Saudi lawyer representing eight Muslim groups in the Middle East and Australia.
Flemming Rose, culture editor of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper’s sister company, told RT that his colleagues have caved in: “The general feeling is that Politiken is, in fact, all alone. There are just a very few voices speaking out in their defense today.”
26.02.2010, 19:11
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Too many double standards are not going forward. The idea of freedom of speech stands on its own, or it does not. Yes the cartoons aroused strong debate. Too bad the revolutions of color did not bring as much uproar from the community at large, as a religion to the idea of higher intelligence. When do we as billions strong find the courage coupled with the intelligence and of course compassion, to see religion as a respect towards all humanity and when a bombing is carried out, then those who violated this first commandment of human religion to deserve life above all other values, are immediately brought into the justice fitting the crime and no denial simply due to whatever, then we can say freedom of speech is a honest shout. But, this is not going forward since the revolutions are not seen as an abomination of the religion of life. Wow.
Lets be honest, these cartoons were deliberatly anti-Islamic and were intended to cause offence. Had these cartoons depicted Jews in this way there would also have been an uproar (had anyone dared to print them at all). This has nothing to do with free speach and everything to do with racism / islamophobia.
Everybody has the right of free speech. Nobody has the right not to be offended.