UNDER the guise of free speech, a leading Danish newspaper published a dozen provocative anti-Islamic cartoons clearly designed to offend Muslims. The predictable result has greatly increased the possibility of violence and left Denmark in a costly and dangerous predicament.
Four months after "Jyllands-Posten (JP)", Denmark’s most widely read morning paper, published 12 cartoons, Denes woke up to the fact that there is a high price to be paid for promoting the "clash of civilisations".
The fact that the editors behind the anti-Islamic images claim to be excercising free speech while refusing to address Europe’s strict censorship laws regarding discussion of the Holocaust and the ongoing imprisonment of historical revisionists reveals the existence of a more sinister agenda behind thecartoons.
"Agents of certain persuation" are behindthe egregious affront to Islam in orer to provoke Muslims, Prof. Mikeal Rothstein of the University of Copenhagen told the BBC. The key "agent" is Flamming Rose, the cultural editor of JP, who commissioned cartoonists to produce the blasphemous images and then published them in Denmark’s leading newspaper last September(2005).
The "International Herald Tribune", which reported on the offensive cartoons on January 1,2006,noted that even the liberalism of Rose had its limits when it came to criticism of Zionist leaders and their crimes. Rose also has clear ties to the Zionist Neo-Cons behind the ‘war the terror’.
Later on, Rose told the media that "he would not publish a cartoon of Israel’s Ariel Sharon strangling a Palestinian baby, since that could be construed as "racist".Asked why he was protecting Sharon, a known war criminal, while abusing Muslims and their Prophet in the name of free speech, Rose told "American Free Press" that he had been "misquoted" in the "Times" article.
Rose travelled to Philadelphia in October 2004 to visit Daniel Pipes, the Neo-Con-ideologue who says the only path to Middle East peace will come through a total Israeli military victory. Rose then penned a positive article about Pipes, who compares "militant Islam" with fascism and communism.In April 2003, President George Bush nominated the rabid anti-Muslim Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace, a congressionally sponsored think-tank dedicated to the peaceful conflicts.Ministers from 17 nations condemned thepublication of the cartoons as an egregious offence to Islam and called on the Denish government to ensure that it would not be repeated.
When the Danish government, which supports the war on terror with more than 500 troop in Iraq, refused to issue an apology for the offensive cartoons, Muslims consumers across the Middle East began a boycott of Danish products.
As the boycott damaged Danish business and a bomb scare closed the office of its newspaper, Rose continued to defend his decision to commission and publish the offensive cartoons. "We stand by the publication of these 12cartoons," he said. "I would say that I do not regret having commissioned those cartoons and I think asking me that question is like asking a rape vistim if she regrets wearing a short skirt Friday night at the discotheque."
The dangerous game that was styarted by the Damish editor has now been picked up by at least 7 newspapers across Europe. Supposedly in support of the Danes, papers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland simultaneously reprinted the cartoons on February1. The timings suggest that this response was coordinated by a hidden hand. In Paris, for example,Arnaud Levy, editor-in-chief of financially-strapped "France-Soir", was fired by the paper’s owner Raymond Lakah, an Egyptian magnate, according to employees.Peter Mandelson, Trade Commissioner for the European Union strongly reprimanded the newspapers for pouring oil on the fire by reprinting the offensive cartoons.
Robert Menard, secretary general of "Reporters with Borders" a Paris based media monitor, however, supported the publication of the cartoons saying: " All countries in Europe should be behind the Danes and Danish authorities to defend the principle that a newspaper can write what it wished to, even if it offends people. I understand that it may shock Muslims, but being shocked is part of the price of being informed," he told "The New York Times".
However, when it comes to discussion, let the leaders of political parties, religious heads, and media—India and abroad—response, why they all remained silent when an Indian painter, M.F.Husain painted Hindu gods and goddesses as nude? Why this indifferent attitude towards Hindus or Hinduism? It’s a million dollar question to be answered by them all.Till when Hindus/Hinduism or its creators be humiliated?Why they remained mum when Taliban—a Muslim terrorist organisation—broken the Buddha idols in Afghanistan; why they sat their fingers crossed.
TILL WHEN THIS APPEASEMENT POLICY BE ADOPTED.ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM ALL THESE HUE AND CRY CREATORS ARE BLIND AND DEAF. WHY THIS DOUBLE STANDARD OF LAW AND ORDERS.
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