This article is from:
Foundation for Defence of Democracies
By 2005 FDD Academic Fellow, J. Peter Pham & Michael I. Krauss Tech Central Station
March 27, 2006
While most media accounts of the "cartoon jihad" focused on the publication of the cartoons, and on the ensuing violent reaction by some Muslims -- who were depicted by the much of the press as victims! -- few reporters have ventured to describe the increasingly hostile climate that Muslim extremists had succeeded in creating in Denmark before the publication. In fact, an examination of Jyllands-Posten's own pages reveals why its editors likely decided to publish the cartoons in the first place -- as well as why the obscurantist rioters were so confident that they would prevail.
In late 2004 -- a University of Copenhagen professor of Moroccan Jewish descent -- was kidnapped in broad daylight and brutally beaten by three Muslim youths for the "crime" of having read from the Quran during a lecture. A few months later, a Danish publisher used anonymous translators for an essay collection critical of Islam for fear that any named assistant would suffer a similar fate. And in an incident immediately preceding Jyllands-Posten's decision to run the cartoons as a test of self-censorship, Danish artists refused to illustrate a children's book about Muhammad. [....]
It is time for Canadians to become aware, then to act in the interest of freedom and democracy. Do not miss what is on the
Western Standard website (see link just below) concerning
freedom of speech and how it is
being curtailed in Canada -- using taxpayers' money, it seems.
Related -- on that website:
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/research_topics/research_topics_list.htm?topic=7575
War on Terrorism
Also, in the last few days,
George Jonas in the National Post wrote an excellent article on
Canarabia.
Again, I have no more time but these articles are important and well worth the time.
