Sunday, February 26, 2006

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LAtimes requires regestration. Though the petition seems pointless in that the UN has no teeth, and shouldn't they have taken action against loads of middle eastern countries for just this same thing in the past?
Not to mention that these online petitions amount to nothing.

passerby (ip:217.204.171.199) 26 February 2006 - 23:55 uur

Arjan, did you also read the contributions to the petition? It seems like it is hijaked by some fundamentalists.Just one example (there are plenty) after browsing the list:

the king of denmark needs to clean his *ss so this petition will be of great use to himespecially when the mujahideen armies surround his palace and slay the gay harem this petition, therefore, is extremely important for the world to see and acknowledge, like Theo on the pavement, that europe is dead and not well!

Bartje (ip:68.22.247.105) 26 February 2006 - 17:15 uur

I will, of course, continue to support Denmark by buying blue cheeze (the only Danish products in my neighbourhood--what about Canada as an alternative market?) but I wondered if you'd seen this piece from The London Sunday Times: "We Should Fear Holland's Silence!"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2058502,00.html

After you've read it maybe you could post something about your take from inside the bubble, so to speak? Best regards, f.d. to Ender too!

foreign devil (ip:70.30.12.120) 26 February 2006 - 14:12 uur

I see the usual suspects are still a bit out of focus on the Danish cartoon fiasco. Now that we know that a newspaper in Egypt published the cartons in October 2005 without so much as a cry of protest in the ME, it should be clear that the "protest" that erupted was a nicely orchestrated one on the part of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria -- according to this source: http://egyptiansandmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/02/boycott-egypt.html

If you have done your research carefully, you would also be aware of the growing racism and xenophobia in many European countries, not least of which Denmark (according to the 2005 Human Rights Survey): http://www.civilrights.org/issues/hate/details.cfm?id=32225

In this regard, a radio broadcast that took place in Denmark one month before the appearance of the cartoon might place this question in better perspective:

"There are only two possible reactions if you want to stop this bomb terrorism - either you expel all Muslims from Western Europe so they cannot plant bombs, or you exterminate the fanatical Muslims which would mean killing a substantial part of Muslim immigrants."
(Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4159220.stm)
Add to this the recent genocide of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica and one can perhaps better understand why Muslims in today's Europe, like Jews in the 1930s, are a little worried -- and ready to protest -- when faced with quasi-racist provocations.

Matrixx8 (ip:80.61.62.195) 26 February 2006 - 1:37 uur

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