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October 6, 2006
Denmark: More Muslim Cartoons To Incite The Faithful
News from AKI reports that Denmark's main commercial TV station, Tv2, has broadcast a video which depicts a contest to make the best cartoon of the so-called prophet of Islam.
The video was made on August 5 by members of the right-wing and anti-immigrant Danish People's Party, the PDD. The video showed young militants making fun of Mohammed, showing him in cartoons as a beer-drinking camel and as a suicide-bomber.
The decision to show the video of anti-Mohammedans at play has caused some newspapers to condemn the station. It is being argued that this will bring the same reaction as the furor created over the Mohammed cartoons which were first printed in Jyllands-Posten on September 30 last year. After two Danish fanatics, Abu Laban and Ahmed Akkari, went to the Middle East to drum up opposition (also bringing three extra images which were never printed), the Muslim world went more mad than usual. In February this year, there were worldwide protests in which at least 50 people were killed.
The PDD is the third largest party in Denmark.
UPDATE - OCT 7: More details come from AFP via the Pakistan Daily Times and Reuters via the Malaysia Star. Danish free newspaper Nyhedsavisen carried remarks from Kenneth Kristensen, head of the youth wing of the PDD. He said he had not taken part in the competition party, and called the behaviour of participants at the event "inconvenient". He said: "It is not my kind of humour, and things would not have happened like that had I been present."
The video had been filmed by Martin Rosengaard Knudsen. Lars Bennike, editor-in-chief of Tv2 said: "Our decision to broadcast this sequence was only due to the fact that the president of the youth branch of the party had distanced himself from this gathering."
Ahmed Abu-Laban, the Palestinian born cleric who had gone to the Middle East to incite protests about the Jyllands-Posten cartoons said: "Against the background of the problems earlier, we have to be careful. This time it's a different situation. Of course it's deplorable, but we all know the attitude the DPP have toward Muslims and Islam and these pictures were never intended for publication."
Abu Laban said that he regretted Tv2's decision to air the footage, and said it raised ethical questions. "We've been working very hard to resolve the problems since the conflict earlier this year," apparently oblivious to the fact that he himself had deliberately caused the problems which led to deaths and attacks.
Yildiz Akdogan is a spokesperson of "Democratic Muslims", a pro-integration group formed after Abu Laban's campaign bore deadly fruit. She said: "I think the events are too stupid and too absurd to provoke demonstrations or other actions from Muslims. Of course it's not a good thing and definitely does not make building bridges any easier, but I hope it won't have any lasting effect."
The videos can be viewed HERE on sugiero blogspot.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 6, 2006 9:26 AM
Comments
Yes yes yes. We need more and more of this sort of stuff. Every time the Muslim world goes ballistic over trivia, or things like the Pope's mere words, it brings many times more people than you and I can ever get, over to realising what we realised years ago: that Islam is dangerous, is a threat to us, is entirely alien to us, is set on our submission or death, cannot be reasoned with (just take the little speech in the car early in the first Terminator film - and apply it to Islam. You know what - a couple of blogs down the road from the one I'm preparing now - I'm late - had a comms interruption - wonder why? - back ok now - I might do exactly that - quote the speech and build a blog onto it. Might finish off with more words from an Arnie film. [about]Predator: "If it bleeds we can kill it".
They are their own worst enemy (well, they will be once I'm dead).
Got some exceptionally high confidence-level projections in my upcoming blog. Frightening.
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at October 6, 2006 2:17 PM
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