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Ohh yeah, to the commisioner on human rights, because it didn’t persecute prosecute Jyland Posten.
LOL.
So between encouraging the boycott and this, one has to wonder, if the danish muslims are so dying to get deported, why don’t they just leave?
March 18th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
lol this made me laugh
March 18th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
They won’t be deported for feeling offended and for taking the case to the courts. That’s within the borders of the law. That’s democracy.
The UN are adressing the cartoons.
http://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B9C2E/(httpNewsByYear_en)/F4FB198CA60BD373C125712A004AF750?OpenDocument
So taking the cartoons to the UN Human Rights and balancing them between Free Speech and Human Rights is in my opinion a good idea.
My personal opinion is that the cartoons were unneccesary but within the limits of the current law. The reactions are/were …well… too emotional for me as a person from the north of Europe. (Some of us pay money at the therapist to learn to “connect” with our feelings.)
Abu Laban was openly dishonest when he said one thing in the danish media and the totally opposite in arab media the same day. But that only takes away his own credibility and the danish media will not see him as a trustworthy spokesperson.
The material brought to the ME had more or less the same effect on the media since it was biased and incorrect. Some of it was was in fact not true at all.
The media questioned the responsible persons about the material. They have “no comments” about the material and they are now angry with most danish mainstream media for their lack of interest in their other opinions.
But the consequense of spreading incorrect statements and the lack of will to discuss the spreading of it, is a general lack of interest from the media. It’s not a punishment. It’s a consequense.
In my opinion the persons responsible for the creation of the material, the distribution of and the presentation in the ME must have an opportunity to defend their actions and statements in public. They will of course also have to explain their cooperation with the Egyptian officials, who helped them with travelling and organisasing meetings with clerics and other influential people.
If they broke a law then and only then can we start talking about expelling anyone.
Denmark is a democracy - with flaws and a will to develop.
March 18th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
“If they broke a law then and only then can we start talking about expelling anyone.”
They (Laban & Co) set up a media campaign which resulted in many deaths and injuries. They must have known this would happen. They faked extra “cartoons” to increase the effect.
Deliberately inciting violence ought to be against the law, even in Denmark. This includes telling lies in order to incite violence.
March 18th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
If Denmark is dragged before the Human Rights Commission, and yet Jordan and Yemen are not, despite imprisoning people for freedom of speech, then that will only prove once again my feelings on the uselessness of the UN.
Mohammed al-Asadi is on trial for his life in Yemen. I’ve not heard how the Jordanian editor is doing now.
But apparently the Muslims have nothing better to do than attack newspapers, heaven forbid they do something really productive with the human rights commission like, oh I don’t know, attack Saudi Arabia where women are not even allowed to drive or Iran where women were beaten.
Then again, they didn’t protest the slaughter under Saddam either, or the attrocities under the Taliban either.
But publish a cartoon and the Muslim world is up in arms.
*cries*
March 19th, 2006 at 12:09 am
Hi Don Cox
When I read the translated material that was brought to the ME I got very upset. The material is very biased and there were even some information in it that is totally untrue.
The inciting of a boycott is not against the law since it’s not violent. It has been used against french goods back when they still tested neuclear bombs in the pacific.
For a WTO member it’s against the regulations of WTO for a government to call for a boycott, which non of the arab countries have done. It has only been done by clerics and/or MPs.
I guess the imams can’t be held responsible for the riots and the deaths at least not in a danish court, since these events didn’t take place in Denmark. It would have to be the countries where the deaths took place and they will blame Jyllands Posten/Denmark/the danes - anyone but the imams.
It would however be nice to see the responsible persons defend their material in a court. If they don’t get to defend it in public the material will not be addressed (and refuted) the proper way.
Expelling people is serious. Some of the responsible people have danish citizenship, some are wanted in their home countries.
A democracy must have the strength to act according to it’s own rules even when it deals with people not believing in democracy. It’s not good enough to expell people just because the “public feeling” says so.