show support to Denmark!

Feb 1 13:22 UTC 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons

As some norwegian fellows summarize here:
http://www.advar.org/eng.html
"Our purpose is to make Norwegians buy Danish goods, as an action of
solidarity with Denmark, which is currently being targeted for a boycott
by several Islamic countries.
The reason for the boycott is that the Danish paper Jyllandsposten, in
September 2005 printed drawings depicting the prophet Mohammed,
something most Islamic groups see as blasphemous. The aim of their
boycott is to make the newspaper and the Danish government apologize."

so few crazy right-wing imams got to drive a calomny and disinformation
against Denmark, with boycott of danish goods, the bunch of regular
threads (death to infidels!) and few muslim countries calling back their
ambassadors.

Show support to the poor danes, by making something good to you at the
same time.
Go buy some
--> beers: Carlsberg, Tuborg, Faxe,...
--> Aalborg Jubilaeums akevitt
--> danish butter cookies
--> danish ham, salami and sausages (Tulip, DAK, etc)
--> LEGO boxes for your children
--> cheese: blue or havarti

etc

response 2 of 43:

Feb 1 17:14 UTC 2006

I'll pick up some Danish pastries on the way home.

response 4 of 43:

Feb 1 19:56 UTC 2006

Go denmark !! :D

response 8 of 43:

Feb 1 23:32 UTC 2006

Fer the people of Iran...I got a messidge fer ya...
We hope ta..uh..someday be friends er sumpthin..

Interpretation:
I'm going to punch you.  Its going to hurt. I'm a stupid bully.

response 10 of 43:

Feb 2 02:11 UTC 2006

danish butter cookies are awesome !

response 12 of 43:

Feb 3 18:11 UTC 2006

 Praise Allah, it is nice to have someone else acting like total idiots on
 the world stage, eclipsing our government, if only for a moment..

response 14 of 43:

Feb 4 05:22 UTC 2006

 One claim I've read, though I haven't been able to verify its accuracy,
 is that a Denmark-based Islamic cleric, looking to capitalize on what
 was looking like being a fairly short-lived furor, decided to spice things
 up by adding several cartoons that weren't part of the 12 originally
 published by the Jyllands-Posten.  Of the added cartoons, according to
 the article I read, one depicted the Prophet as a pedophile, one showed
 him with the snout of a pig, and the third showed a muslim figure being
 raped by a dog -- three particularly offensive characterizations to Muslims..
 Of course such cartoons were never published by the Danish newspaper that
 started the furor.  It's likely that parties on both sides are interested
 in seeing the furor continue so we can probably expect more shenanigans.

response 16 of 43:

Feb 4 09:25 UTC 2006

 I think there are some fascinating angles to this story.

 One thing that intrigues me is that the idea that hardcore Muslim clerics
 are fabricating cartoons that defame the Prophet..  in order to prove to
 their followers that Europeans have no respect for Muslims because they
 defame the Prophet.  It seems like a situation with serious backlash
 potential if you ask me -- pretty easy to get caught at that sort of thing
 and highly unforgivable to all parties involved -- but if we're to believe
 the version of events as we know it it would appear that someone thought
 it worth the risk.

 The part that I find *really* interesting, though, is how the reaction to
 something like this works in the Muslim nations of the world and what it
 reveals about the conception of freedom of the press (or lack thereof) in
 other parts of the world.  Governments of primarily Muslim nations are
 lodging serious diplomatic complaints against the Danish government --
 requring that their ambassadors demand an explanation as to why the paper
 was allowed to publish something so awful and why the paper hasn't been
 shut down since.  Most westerners at this point throw up their hands and
 think to themselves:  "What the f*ck?  Why are they asking the Danish
 government why a newspaper published something?  What does the government
 have to do with it?"

 It's inconceivable in North America and in the nations of Western Europe
 that anyone would expect the government to step in and prevent a paper
 from publishing something like this.  But it's equally inconceivable in
 most of the Islamic world that the government would not.  Newspapers in
 throughout most of the countries we're talking about are routinely shut
 down and editors and journalists threatened with imprisonment or violence
 over minor political criticisms.  Something as outrageous as this was to
 public sensibilities in those countries would never even be attempted and
 if it was it would be quickly and severely punished.  It's surprisingly
 hard for either side to see the other sides' point of view because each
 rests firmly on fundamentally different ideas about the notion of the
 role of the press in society..

response 18 of 43:

Feb 4 18:14 UTC 2006

If I am not mistaken, there were originally 9 cartoons, not 12.

response 20 of 43:

Feb 6 18:36 UTC 2006

re #17 islam is the least tolerant religion?  it isn't islam that says if you
don't convert and accept their faith, you are going to hell
./

response 22 of 43:

Feb 6 18:41 UTC 2006

I think it probably does, actually.

response 24 of 43:

Feb 6 18:58 UTC 2006

My measurement of tolerance is based on behavior, not written doctrine.
Most Christian bodies, and individual Christians, no longer condone the
torture of heretics and the like.  There is no non-Muslim equivalent to
Saudi Arabia, a nation where you must declare your religious beliefs to
get a visa and people with the wrong religious beliefs will not be
granted entry.  There is no non-Muslim equivalent of Mecca, a holy city
to which only Muslims are permitted entry by law.  And there are no
recent examples of non-Muslims engaged in widespread violent
demonstrations against random targets because their religious
sensibilities were offended by a newspaper cartoon.