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On the 30th of September 2005 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. Mohammedans raised a storm of protest and two artists went into hiding after receiving death threats. Islamic organisations demanded an apology from the Danish government and the incident turned into a world-wide diplomatic issue. The OIC (the Organisation of the Islamic Conference), the Council of Europe and the UN all criticised the government of Denmark for not taking measures against the newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen defended the freedom of the press and free speech and stated that any measures, if appropriate, could not be taken by the government but only by a court of law. Meanwhile in Islamic countries Danish flags are burned and Danish products are taken off the shelves. Several countries have withdrawn their ambassadors from Denmark and armed men attacked the office of the EU in the Gaza strip.
If you've been following this controversy over the Mohammed Cartoons ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jylland...ns_controversy ), I think you'll agree that the reaction to them has gone a bit overboard, to put it lightly. Simply because the Danish government refuses to censor a newspaper which printed cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed (one of which had a bomb in his turban), these people have taken to mass boycott of Danish products, death threats against the cartoonists, attempts to impose UN sanctions, and violent attacks including an attack of armed men on the office of the EU in the Gaza Strip and most recently the burning down of the Danish embassy in Syria (and the Chilean and Swedish embassies, which happened to be in the same building).

Look, people. No boycotts, no burning down of embassies, no whining is going to stop free speech in Denmark. Not gonna happen. If you don't like the newspaper's cartoons, don't read that newspaper. We in the western world may have a lot of faults, but thing we can definitely be proud of is our freedom of the press. To suggest censorship in such a society is absurd, and attempting to punish the economy and the government of Denmark isn't going to get you anywhere. Why? Because neither of them have anything to do with it. Those cartoons were published by one newspaper. The government is powerless to censor them under Danish law, and boycotting Danish products is only going to punish people who have nothing to do with the newspaper except that they happen to live in the country where it's published.
Oneironaut Reviewed by Oneironaut on . Support Denmark! http://skender.be/supportdenmark/ If you've been following this controversy over the Mohammed Cartoons ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy ), I think you'll agree that the reaction to them has gone a bit overboard, to put it lightly. Simply because the Danish government refuses to censor a newspaper which printed cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed (one of which had a bomb in his turban), these people have taken to mass boycott of Danish Rating: 5