Offensive Cartoon

ak_m_f wrote: Colin wrote: candor wrote: I think the boycott is feasible because most (if not all) of the needs of the Muslims (which are currently being satisfied by the Western products) can be satisfied by the Japanese and Korean products. I hope the Japanese or Korean press don't publish anything that Muslims find offensive. Otherwise it could be camel burgers for dinner for the foreseeable future...  ;---) mmmmm camels...

So laughin'

Assalamu Alaikum:

I think that a large part of the outrage is due in part to the fact that this is just the last in a long and never ending series of insults, media misrepresentations, degradations, and attacks against Islam and Muslims. Don't forget, it was only a few months ago that copies of the Quran were being flushed down the toilet. I believe that Muslims as a whole are really tired of it and boycotting is a way to express this.

It may have been one paper that started it all, but numerous papers have since reprinted the caricatures, all under the banner of free speech. But please, see the article below. If the Danish people are truly concerned about the lost jobs, then they should speak up and insist the newspaper give a sincere apology, not just mouth service.

Just yesterday G. W. chastised the Presidents of Iran and Syria for "fueling the protests" yet said nothing about the newspaper that started it all. However, I can guarantee you if it had been an anti-Semetic cartoon something would have been said long ago. There is a serious double standard all around the world, and Islam/Muslim bashing is the last acceptible form of prejudice. If we as Muslims don't stick up for ourselves, who will?

Danish paper rejected Jesus cartoons

Gwladys Fouch� and agencies
Monday February 6, 2006


http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1703501,00. html
Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused a storm of protest throughout the Islamic world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ, it has emerged today.
The Danish daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny.
In April 2003, Danish illustrator Christoffer Zieler submitted a series
of unsolicited cartoons dealing with the resurrection of Christ to
Jyllands-Posten.
Zieler received an email back from the paper's Sunday editor, Jens
Kaiser, which said: "I don't think Jyllands-Posten's readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think that they will provoke an outcry. Therefore, I will not use them."
The illustrator told the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, which saw the
email: "I see the cartoons as an innocent joke, of the type that my Christian grandfather would enjoy."
"I showed them to a few pastors and they thought they were funny."
He said that he felt Jyllands-Posten rated the feelings of its
Christian readers higher than that of its Muslim readers.
But the Jyllands-Posten editor in question, Mr Kaiser, told
MediaGuardian.co.uk that the case was "ridiculous to bring forward now. It has nothing to do with the Muhammad cartoons.
"In the Muhammad drawings case, we asked the illustrators to do it. I
did not ask for these cartoons. That's the difference," he said.
"The illustrator thought his cartoons were funny. I did not think so.
It would offend some readers, not much but some."
The decision smacks of "double-standards", said Ahmed Akkari, spokesman for the Danish-based European Committee for Prophet Honouring, the umbrella group that represents 27 Muslim organisations that are campaigning for a full apology from Jyllands-Posten.
"How can Jyllands-Posten distinguish the two cases? Surely they must
understand," Mr Akkari added.
Meanwhile, the editor of a Malaysian newspaper resigned over the
weekend after printing one of the Muhammad cartoons that have unleashed a storm of protest across the Islamic world.
Malaysia's Sunday Tribune, based in the remote state of Sarawak, on
Borneo island, ran one of the Danish cartoons on Saturday. It is unclear which one of the 12 drawings was reprinted.
Printed on page 12 of the paper, the cartoon illustrated an article
about the lack of impact of the controversy in Malaysia, a country with a majority Muslim population.
The newspaper apologised and expressed "profound regret over the
unauthorised publication", in a front page statement on Sunday.
"Our internal inquiry revealed that the editor on duty, who was
responsible for the same publication, had done it all alone by himself without authority in compliance with the prescribed procedures as required for such news," the statement said.
The editor, who has not been named, regretted his mistake, apologised and tendered his resignation, according to the statement.
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Yes firewall3,

I got the following link that may help.

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-02/09/article01 .shtml

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