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We Are All Danes Now. Is Dutch Cartoonist Next?

am 01.02.2006 von Law & Justice

Today almost all the European newspapers are reporting on the Danish cartoon case. The first and best source still remains The Brussels Journal: you will find no copy/paste of international press agency articles but original insights:What most papers do not mention is that the whole affair escalated after a group of radical Danish Muslims and imams visited the Arab countries early in January with the deliberate intent to provoke a consumer boycott of Denmark. These people wanted to punish the Danish government for its refusal to introduce press censorship. They even added three false cartoons to the twelve drawings of Muhammad that the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published last September.All across the Western world papers have begun to show the Danish cartoons.NorwayThree Norwegian papers had already published the cartoons: Magazinet, Aftenposten and Dagbladet. While the Norwegian government was quick to apologize, even before apologies were demanded, this has not prevented Muslims from boycotting Norwegian products. Magazinet journalist Vebjørn Selbekk has already received a lot of death threats. Mr Selbekk and his family are now under police protection. Read the whole article here.FranceThe French newspaper France-Soir, which republished all twelve cartoons today, wrote on its front page today: “Oui, on a le droit de caricaturiser Dieu” ( Yes, we have the right to caricature God. )GermanyThe German paper Die Welt has also published one of the cartoons.The Berliner Zeitung also reprinted two cartoons as part of its coverage of the controversy.ItalyItaly’s Corriere della Serra and La Stampa also published some or all …

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