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January 28, 2006
Norway: Government Bows to Muslim Pressure Over Mohammad Cartoons
How dare our citizens practice freedom of speech? Norway Apologizes for Cartoons Insulting Prophet Mohammed
The insult including cartoons on Prophet Mohammed that were published in the Danish daily Jyllands Posten spread to Norway, but received a different assessment.As opposed to the Danish government's "insistence on insult," the government in Norway displayed an exemplary behavior.
Norwegians apologized from the Muslim world for the action of the newspaper Magazinet, the publisher of the cartoons in an attempt to "support the freedom of _expression."
Norway Foreign Ministry sent a letter to their ambassadors serving in the Middle East and wanted them to state the administration is distant to the Magazinet's publication.
The letter emphasized freedom of _expression is one of the pillars of the Norwegian society, but the freedom also includes tolerance towards various beliefs and thoughts.
The Danish government, to the contrary, had taken no action against the newspaper following the publication of the cartoon on the ground of freedom of _expression; moreover, the administration backed the incident in a report it presented to the United Nations.[...]
The Norwegian government is a Leftist Coalition.
The Danish government is a Right-Leaning Coalition. (Denmark's official website is currently down.)
Posted by Ruy Diaz at January 28, 2006 4:05 PM
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