02-06-2006, 11:23 AM
Thanks Occhi for your support, I'm danish and I appreciate it.
The newspaper Jyllands-Posten didn't just post those cartoon for fun. The reason for it actually makes this discussion about free speech even more interesting.
A writer was writing a book about Muhammed and was not able to find any that would make drawings of Muhammed for it. They were too afraid of the reactions from muslisms if they did.
That is what made the newpaper find 12 cartoonists to make the drawings and post them. Because there was a fear among artists to depict Muhammed in a danish book.
It should probably be noted that it is NOT a majority of the muslims in Denmark that support the anger over the pictures. The large and very silent majority of danish muslims is mostly saying 'ok, silly pictures, not nice, but come on, it's just a drawing'.
It seems some people in this forum think it's the muslim taboo of drawing Muhammed that is the problem. Actually what most of the vocal muslims here in Denmark are saying is, that it's not that it is a picture of him, but that it is a picture that makes fun of him. They do NOT have problems with pictures of Muhammed that are honourable and 'pretty'. Such pictures can be found in schoolbooks both in Denmark and Norway already.
The newspaper Jyllands-Posten didn't just post those cartoon for fun. The reason for it actually makes this discussion about free speech even more interesting.
A writer was writing a book about Muhammed and was not able to find any that would make drawings of Muhammed for it. They were too afraid of the reactions from muslisms if they did.
That is what made the newpaper find 12 cartoonists to make the drawings and post them. Because there was a fear among artists to depict Muhammed in a danish book.
It should probably be noted that it is NOT a majority of the muslims in Denmark that support the anger over the pictures. The large and very silent majority of danish muslims is mostly saying 'ok, silly pictures, not nice, but come on, it's just a drawing'.
It seems some people in this forum think it's the muslim taboo of drawing Muhammed that is the problem. Actually what most of the vocal muslims here in Denmark are saying is, that it's not that it is a picture of him, but that it is a picture that makes fun of him. They do NOT have problems with pictures of Muhammed that are honourable and 'pretty'. Such pictures can be found in schoolbooks both in Denmark and Norway already.