"In Denmark, we have criticism of everything: the Queen, politicians, religion... provoking debate is the job of the newspaper and so also of the cartoonist. Muslims have to accept that." Yes.
"Dutch 'must show' anti-Islam film," from the BBC (thanks to all who sent this in):
The Danish cartoonist behind drawings satirising the Prophet Muhammad has urged a Dutch lawmaker to air an anti-Islam film despite Muslim outrage.Kurt Westergaard said MP Geert Wilders should show his film, despite government warnings that this would damage Dutch interests.
He said that no Danish politician would dare to block the film.
Mr Westergaard's cartoons in a Danish paper triggered riots by Muslims in many countries in 2006.
'Cartoonist's job'
"Wilders must show his film," Mr Westergaard told the Dutch Volkskrant newspaper on Monday.
"In Denmark, we have criticism of everything: the Queen, politicians, religion... provoking debate is the job of the newspaper and so also of the cartoonist. Muslims have to accept that.
"A Danish politician knows that you should not limit freedom of expression," he said....
No, it wasn't the cartoon that triggered outrage and violence.
It was stupid people who blindly follow an outrageously violent god which triggered the cartoon.
It was stupid people who blindly follow an outrageously violent god which triggered the cartoon.
No, no it must be as a Palestinian explained on one internet forum. The Israelis, that is Mossad , plot with the neo-cons drawers on Jyllands Posten to make the Motoons in the sinister conspiracy to trigger muslims roaring the streets burning flags and embassies just so the muslims would get bad press and look stupid.
Oh, yea ... what was I thinkin'.
The Dutch must feel like such kleine kinderen to need a Dane to explain Freedom of Thought and Speech to them.
Spinoza is surely spinning (next to Erasmus and Christiaan Huygens and Van Leeuwenhoek) like a lathe in his grave at how low the Low Countries have sunk.
I hope Denmark airs the movie. Maybe that'll get the Dutch to show it.
Let the games begin..
Good work that man.
We are being manipulated by certain muslims who are playing the media and political game of being offended.
We can all see this. The disingenuous arguments of so called "moderate" muslims is obvious to anyone.
The truth is that the real moderate muslims are being ignored because they don't scream as loud as the "moderate" muslims.
When a real moderate muslim, such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali pokes their head above the parapet, they are deserted by politicians who are so spineless they will not dare give "offense" by supporting someone who could lose them votes.
The Danish cartoonist behind drawings satirising the Prophet Muhammad has urged a Dutch lawmaker to air an anti-Islam film despite Muslim outrage.
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Kurt Westergaard is my hero. This man is 72 years old, not in the best of health, has lost his home and police protection, and is in hiding with his wife in the wake of death threats. Yet here he is, continuing to stand for freedom of speach.
I used his famous "Mohammed with a bomb in his turban" image on a poster I made for Islamo-fascism week last year. This cartoon should be published in every newspaper in the free world as an act of defiance.
Geert Wilders has already won the coveted Jihad Watch Anti-Dhimmi of the year 2006.
Is it too early to nominate Kurt Westergaard for Anti-Dhimmi Internationale for 2008?