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=== News Update ===
Reprinting of Danish cartoon could stoke fresh violence TheSpec.com -
CanadaWorld - Reprinting of Danish cartoon could stoke fresh violence
Jan M. Olsen
The Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Feb 14, 2008)
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can the gas-chambers be far behind?
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Danish newspapers reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a
gesture of solidarity yesterday after police revealed a plot to kill
the creator of the caricature that sparked deadly riots in the Muslim world.
Danish Muslims said they'd seek to avoid a repeat of the violence two
years ago.
However, with a right-wing Dutch lawmaker planning to air a movie
that condemns Islam as fascist, Europe pondered the possibility of a
new cycle of turmoil.
"I just don't want go through this again," said Mohammed Shafiq of
the Ramadhan Foundation, a Muslim educational group in London.
Shafiq has written a protest letter to the Danish ambassador in London.
Other Muslim groups echoed his sentiments, saying they think Danish
papers are seeking to rekindle the fiery debate over free speech and
Islam that engulfed Europe during the uproar over the cartoons in 2006.
Some experts said that discussion never went away -- it just drifted
off the editorial pages of Europe's dailies.
"This conflict will remain as long as there are people who believe
religion should have a greater role in society," said Magnus Norell,
a Middle East expert at the Swedish Defence Research Agency.
More than a dozen papers in Denmark reprinted what was arguably the
most controversial of the 12 cartoons that enraged Muslims in early
2006 when they appeared in Western newspapers.
The drawing, by newspaper cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, depicts
Islam's prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.
The papers said they wanted to show their firm commitment to freedom
of speech after Tuesday's arrest in western Denmark of three people
accused of plotting to kill Westergaard.
Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even
favourable, for fear it could lead to idolatry.
At least three European newspapers -- in Sweden, the Netherlands and
Spain -- also reprinted the cartoon as part of their coverage of the
Danish arrests.
The debate resurfaced recently in the Netherlands with lawmaker Geert
Wilders' plans to make an anti-Koran film portraying the religion as
fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals.
In Denmark, all eyes turned toward the Islamic Faith Community, a
network of Muslim groups that many Danes say provoked the riots of
2006 by embarking on a Middle East tour.
The tour sought support for their fight against the paper that first
published the cartoons, Jyllands-Posten.
Group spokesman Kasem Ahmad said even though printing the cartoons
"was like a knife in our hearts," the group would not take action this time.
In January and February of 2006, angry mobs burned the Danish flag
and attacked Danish and other Western embassies in Muslim countries
including Syria, Iran and Lebanon.
Danish products were boycotted by many Muslim consumers and
protesters were killed in Libya and Afghanistan.
In Egypt, one observer said there was no guarantee that violence
would not break out, and suggested Europe might be a possible stage.
"I'm against any violent reaction, but how can you control or expect
to control the 15-20 million Muslims living in Europe," said Fahmi
Howeidy, an Egyptian writer.
The decision by the Danish papers to reprint Westergaard's cartoon
came in response to Tuesday's news that intelligence police had
arrested two Tunisians and a Danish citizen of Moroccan origin for
plotting to kill Westergaard.
The Danish suspect was released Tuesday after questioning.
source:
<http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=306450>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=306450
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