Islamophobia in Europe

Intended Insults: Unintended Consequences

By Khalid Baig

On 31 January, Carsten Juste, editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, published an open letter to Muslims saying he was sorry that Muslims took offence from the cartoons (which his cultural editor had commissioned for the express purpose of causing offence). In that caricature of an apology he did not admit that the paper had done anything wrong. Rather he blamed the Muslims' poor understanding of the Danish culture for their getting so upset. Then he wondered, as did many media pundits, why Muslims were not buying his apology.

He also said in a separate comment that had he known the extent of Muslim anger, he would not have published those cartoons. Since then the same cartoons have been reproduced by one newspaper after another in Europe. How could these "especially commissioned works of art" be reproduced by other papers? Only if Jyllands-Posten, the original copyright holder, gave them permission to do so. That it should continue to let others reprint these despicable cartoons, while claiming that it had expressed its regret, is only fitting in a drama that continues to reveal the depths of hypocrisy in which Europe is mired today. Read on...

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well my opinion in this matter is that there is nothing unintentional regarding the cartoon. there is no1 in this world who can take anything against his religion. and Alhamdulillah we muslims are very cautious in this matter. and what i think is that they intentionally intented to hurt the muslims ummah. and show that muslims are really terrorists and extremists.

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I did not expect of Mr. President (ours one) to be so straightforward as to proclaim that "the publisher doesn't know what is going on around the world. And if he calls himself an educated person, he's fooling himself".

He has identified the mentality of the publisher rightly. I think the publisher was a psyhco. (Musharraf to bara hi psychologist nikla )

Heheh!

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