The Danish government wanted a culture war?
Here is another persepctive on the whole Cartoon crisis thing, from a Dane who believes that the Newspaper who published the cartoons wanted to instigate trouble, and that the government wanted a culture war. I don't buy it, but hey, I've been on Denmark's side this whole time, so I might as well present the counter-argument, no?
posted by The Sandmonkey @ 2/08/2006 01:39:00 AM
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I only saw the part of the article that was free, so I have no opinion to add as such, but I do wanna point out that she base her opinion on interviews with 300 muslim clerics in europe.
Anyway, alwas nice to add another perspective to get both sides of the story.
Why is it so difficult for us to separate between Muslims and Murderers?
Is it because the two words beginns with the letter M? Let me try to explain. Muslim is a person who practise a religion. Murderer is aperson who murder other people. Muslims are good. Murderers are bad. How difficult can it be?
As I understand the satiric cartoons they were critical towards people murdering other people in the name of the wholy profet Muhammed. That is why boms and swords and suecide bombers was shown. If it was only intend to insult Muhammed and Muslim people, then the artist could have displayed Muhammed as a homosexual, whore, lawyer, politician, pedofile or as a Jude or American or communist or something like that.
It is unpolite to insulte people for practising a religion. It is right to critize people who are murdures, especially when people murder innocent people in the name of God or Jesus or Muhammed or Islam. Simple as that.
Obviously theese distinctions was not understood by many and also it is against the religion of islam to depeicture Muhammed but not everywhere, it is not against the law of Denmark. People have the right to demonstrate and speak there mind, but not to burn embassies and threaten to kill people.
Per, Sweden
Denmark is currently fighting a culture war (like all societies are all the time!) - but unlike what the start of the article suggests, it is a culture war between the Danish socialist left and liberalist right.
This has been an ongoing saga since the beginning of the 20th century, with both sides gaining the upper hand occasionally. Right now the current liberalist government has seized on the complete implosion of the socialist opposition to parts of their agenda forward, much to the dismay of the Danish leftwing.
This has resulted in gratitous name-calling from the left, I have personally been called both a warcriminal and fascist recently, with some counter namecalling from the dweebs in the Danish Peoples Party (center-populist, but the really son´t like immigrants).
To cut a long story short, our current culture wars is about Denmark and Danish politics (like the cartoons!).
Bluntly speaking very few Danes gives a toss about race or religion, but we do care about what direction our country is headed in.
/Limegolf
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