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Interesting - I hadn't known that about Danish humor. It is probably also no accident that the Mohammed cartoons were made in Denmark. The thing is, those wer
by theorique 14y ago
Interesting - I hadn't known that about Danish humor.
It is probably also no accident that the Mohammed cartoons were made in Denmark.
The thing is, those weren't even offensive or derogatory. The rest of the world overreacted and rolled over because of overblown threats from the Islamic world.
- kalkin 14y agoYou don't think an image of Muhammad where he's wearing a bomb for a turban is derogatory? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptions_of_the_Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptions_of_the_Jyllands-Po...
- theorique 14y agoIt's controversial political speech; I wouldn't personally call it derogatory. If I understand correctly, the reaction was to the mere fact of Mohammed being rendered in drawing, not about the content of those drawings.
- abrahamsen 14y agoIt was both. The view on depictions of Mohammed differ within Islam. Insulting Mohammed on the other hand, it pretty much universally condemned.