DeclinetoState
03-19-2008, 08:21 PM
The religion of peace threatens to kill again.
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Derrick Butler for The New York Times
Pakistanis burning a mock coffin representing Denmark during a protest in Karachi this month.
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/michael_kimmelman/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
</NYT_BYLINE>Published: March 20, 2008
<!--NYT_INLINE_IMAGE_POSITION1 --><NYT_TEXT>AARHUS, Denmark (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/denmark/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) — “I think this is safe house No. 5,” Kurt Westergaard said the other day, and it was clear that he genuinely had lost track.
Last month the Danish police arrested two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan descent on charges of plotting to kill Mr. Westergaard, one of the 12 cartoonists whose pictures of Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten sparked protests, some of them violent, by Muslims around the world in 2006 and put bounties on the heads of Mr. Westergaard and his editor, Flemming Rose. Mr. Westergaard (he drew Muhammad with a bomb in his turban) has been in hiding ever since.
Americans, for whom the presidential election seems to have become a delirious, unending sport, preoccupying their attention, turn out not to be the only ones who preferred to forget about the cartoons. So had many Danes and fellow Europeans. They were shocked by the arrests.
In the days shortly after, 17 Danish newspapers, having declined to publish the offending cartoons two years ago, declared solidarity with Mr. Westergaard and printed them.
NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/books/20cartoon.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin)
And then the sh*t hit the fan—again.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/20/arts/cartoon-600.jpg
Derrick Butler for The New York Times
Pakistanis burning a mock coffin representing Denmark during a protest in Karachi this month.
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/michael_kimmelman/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
</NYT_BYLINE>Published: March 20, 2008
<!--NYT_INLINE_IMAGE_POSITION1 --><NYT_TEXT>AARHUS, Denmark (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/denmark/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) — “I think this is safe house No. 5,” Kurt Westergaard said the other day, and it was clear that he genuinely had lost track.
Last month the Danish police arrested two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan descent on charges of plotting to kill Mr. Westergaard, one of the 12 cartoonists whose pictures of Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten sparked protests, some of them violent, by Muslims around the world in 2006 and put bounties on the heads of Mr. Westergaard and his editor, Flemming Rose. Mr. Westergaard (he drew Muhammad with a bomb in his turban) has been in hiding ever since.
Americans, for whom the presidential election seems to have become a delirious, unending sport, preoccupying their attention, turn out not to be the only ones who preferred to forget about the cartoons. So had many Danes and fellow Europeans. They were shocked by the arrests.
In the days shortly after, 17 Danish newspapers, having declined to publish the offending cartoons two years ago, declared solidarity with Mr. Westergaard and printed them.
NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/books/20cartoon.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin)
And then the sh*t hit the fan—again.