Tratto dall'ottimo sito http://euro-holocaust.splinder.com/ (leggere e diffondere!):
Censura contro vignette!
Di recente, in Danimarca, il caso delle pressioni durissime, da parte degli islamici, per censurare vignette, non necessariamente offensive o critiche, recanti solo l'immagine di Maometto. Le pressioni hanno avuto varie forme, tentando anche di costringere all'intervento il primo ministro danese Anders Fogh Rasmussen, il quale ha però negato tale disponibilità, riconoscendo la libertà d'espressione come di un pilastro del vivere civile danese.
Il tutto è nato dopo il tentativo di illustrare un libro sulla vita del profeta islamico: nessun illustratore vi volle partecipare, sottomettendosi al divieto islamico di dipingere il volto maomettano. Allora il quotidiano Jyllands-Posten invitò alcune decine di illustratori a realizzare qualche ritratto di Maometto. Parteciparono solo in 12! E da ciò, comunque, scattarono le proteste islamiste e i tentativi di censura:
http://www.cphpost.dk/get/91490.html
Imam demands apology for 'humiliating' Mohammed cartoons
A Muslim cleric in Århus is demanding that daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten apologise for publishing cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammed
Daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten is facing accusations that it deliberately provoked and insulted Muslims by publishing twelve cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammed.
The newspaper urged cartoonists to send in drawings of the prophet, after an author complained that nobody dared to illustrate his book on Mohammed. The author claimed that illustrators feared that extremist Muslims would find it sacrilegious to break the Islamic ban on depicting Mohammed.
Twelve illustrators heeded the newspaper’s call and sent in cartoons of the prophet, which were published in the newspaper one week ago.
Daily newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad said one Muslim, at least, had taken offence.
‘This type of democracy is worthless for Muslims,’ Imam Raed Hlayhel wrote in a statement. ‘Muslims will never accept this kind of humiliation. The article has insulted every Muslim in the world. We demand an apology!’
Jyllands-Posten described the cartoons as a stance against ‘religious democracy and for the right to expression’.
Hlayhel, however, said the newspaper had abused democracy with the single intention of humiliating Muslims.
Lars Refn, one of the cartoonists who participated in the newspaper’s call to arms, said he actually agreed with Hlayhel. Therefore, his cartoon did not feature the prophet Mohammed, but a normal Danish schoolboy named Mohammed, who had written a Persian text on his schoolroom’s blackboard.
‘On the blackboard it says in Persian with Arabic letters that ‘Jyllands-Posten’s journalists are a bunch of reactionary provocateurs’,’ Refn said. ‘Of course we shouldn’t let ourselves be censored by a few extremist Muslims, but Jyllands-Posten’s only goal is to vent the fires as soon as they get the opportunity. There’s nothing constructive in that.’
Flemming Rose, cultural editor at the newspaper, denied that the purpose had been to provoke Muslims. It was simply a reaction to the rising number of situations where artists and writers censured themselves out of fear of radical Islamists, he said.
‘Religious feelings cannot demand special treatment in a secular society,’ he added. ‘In a democracy one must from time to time accept criticism or becoming a laughingstock.’
It is not the first time Hlayhel has created headlines in Denmark. One year ago, he became the target of criticism from Muslims and non-Muslims alike, when he said in a sermon during Friday prayer, that Danish women’s behaviour and dress invited rape.
Si noti sia il "collaborazionista" Lars Refn, sia l'imam Raed Hlayhel (ossia, colui che un anno fa affermò che il modo di vestirsi e comportarsi delle donne danesi era un invito allo stupro).
Come detto, il primo ministro Rasmussen ha rifiutato di accettare le richieste islamiste (da parte, addirittura, di alcuni ambasciatori!), nonostante l'intervento delle opposizioni (e chi ne dubitava?):
http://denmark.dk/
25 October 2005
The prime minister will not meet with Muslim ambassadors in Denmark
Eleven Muslim ambassadors in Denmark looking to meet with Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to discuss what they call a 'smear campaign' in the media against Islam and Muslims have had their request denied.
The prime minister had otherwise been encouraged by the opposition to meet with the group as a way to increase understanding in an increasingly controversial public debate.
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Rasmussen reiterated his message that individuals who felt offended by the tone of the public debate should bring their grievances to the courts.
'As prime minister, I have no power whatsoever to limit the press - nor do I want such a power,' he said. 'It is a basic principle of our democracy that a prime minister cannot control the press.'