Brussels Journal publishes those Mohammed cartoons

Radical Muslim groups are turning up the heat in the cartoon war by using mass e-mails and text messages to organise a boycott of Danish goods in Islamic countries.

Nordic blood is up though.  Swedish newspapers are threatening to support their Norwegian and Danish cousins by publishing the cartoons.

You can now see all the cartoons,  this time with English translations,  by scrolling down to the bottom of this Brussels Journal article.

Comments

[oliver]

Carlsberg and bacon never did shift in Saudi, so my sources tell me... I, meanwhile, am staging a Danish procott with the aim to singlehandedly rescue their economy which has been completely decimated by falling Lurpak sales in Pakistan (as an Englishman I have just about forgiven their fly agaric-fuelled raids on Northumberland all those centuries ago...)

[Steve]

Oliver, I think that may have been how my ancestors got here!

[Chris]

Any UK papers reporting on this? I've heard very little.

[Steve]

Chris, I haven't seen much either, that's why I'm keeping up to date with the story here.

[Muppetlord]

Your link to Brussels Journal doesn't work...I had to go to Google and find the cache.

The cartoons are here - http://www.newspaperindex.com/blog/2005/12/10/un-to-investigate-jyllands-posten-racism/

[Steve]

Muppetlord - it's working again now but thanks for the alternative link.

[EU Serf]

The Danish Bacon industry must really be in a terrible state now.

[Sylvester]

Things taking an interesting turn

A group of Danish Muslim leaders is currently touring the Muslim world distributing a report on the cartoons. This report contains a few embellishments:
The report contains 15 pictures instead of 12. The first of the three additional pictures, which are of dismal quality, shows Muhammad as a pedophile deamon [see it here], the second shows the prophet with a pigsnout [here] and the third depicts a praying Muslim being raped by a dog [here].
The source of these additions is unclear:
Akhmad Akkari, spokesman of the 21 Danish Muslim organizations which organized the tour, explained that the three drawings had been added to “give an insight in how hateful the atmosphere in Denmark is towards Muslims.” Akkari claimed he does not know the origin of the three pictures. He said they had been sent anonymously to Danish Muslims. However, when Ekstra Bladet asked if it could talk to these Muslims, Akkari refused to reveal their identity.

http://rwdb.blogspot.com/2006/01/danish-cartoon-controversy-still-rages.html

[bashar dannaoui]

hi there my dear fellow europpean speacilly danish sweden belge falmank i have a drawing of jesus been shuffeld a big cross up his ass please would you publish that for me please contact me at traky1968@yahoo.com.....
and another one of the wholy pop been fucked in his ass in the vatican would you publish??????????????
let me see if indeed you have freedom of press

[oliver]

Hey Basher, guess what? A few years ago the artist Andres Serrano exhibited an image of Jesus in a bottle of urine in New York.

There were protests, sure. But no-one died, no-ones head was hacked off in the street, there were no mass boycotts, breast-beating, effigy burning blah... Blasphemy is unarguably treated in a far more moderate way in the Christian world and the West.

But go ahead, have your joke. Is very good my friend!

[bashar]

oliver you see how it hirt when i tacle the religion issue or make my jokes it did hirt you my friend i am against violence i did not said kill but publish....the way these newspaper act bring one thing called radicales where neither me or you can stop or the irish were no radical killing british i did not saw the reaccion like i am seeing from the europpean comunity against so called muslim terorist why because they are whitich blond eyroppean type they have the right why you do not call them barbberian i garanty you some europpen help the ira and their cuase remember also they killed inocent people let me you and me see with both eyes...let me tell you i hate what i am saying but believe i will publish these pictures if i get the oportunity it is matter of principal i want to show now what will be the reacciion of the europpean people let me see how many mosque will be buern like what did happens in holland...

[Dave]

bashar you obviously don't know much about Europe.
Not many here believe in Christianty anymore, and Jesus 'is' ridiculed often, very very few people complain when it happens, and there are certainly no threats.

Btw you also don't know much about Islam either because Jesus is also considered a prophet by the Qu'ran.

If you succeed in publishing these photos, no one would care..

[Krishna109]

Dave: Good point-- Europeans have deserted religion in large numbers. Nowadays, in order to insult most Europeans-- you would have to publish cartoons that are an insult to Atheism! Lol :-)

(You would have to mock the things that atheists consider sacred!)

[Krishna109]

P.S: I think its also true what you said about a Moslem publishing a cartoon that insults Jesus. Wouldn't it be haram for a Muslim to insult someone his religion considers to be a prophet?

(Of course they could always try to insult a Hindu or Buddhist holy person, as Islam doesn't consider these two to be legitimate religions).

[mohamed omar]

before seeing the whole pictures i mean the 15 pictures i was about to write a message that my heart had no deal with it only my mind but what i saw is not" a test of whether Muslim fundamentalists had begun affecting the freedom of expression in Denmark " it's a clear insult to our religion , it has nothing to do with politics because if it was than they could've illustrated politicians the way they wanted but they chose to put our prophet muhammed in their cartoons .
i think it's an act of cowardness, saying that it was some sort of a test to know if muslims have the power in denmark to affect the freedom of speech , well dont face muslims in denmark, face the entire islamic nation .
i call this stupidity .

[Dave]

I'm not saying I agree with what they have done, I am not aware of all the surrounding circumstances.
But does an insult justify death threats?

[john doe]

I think it is shameful to see Denmark have no respect for Islam in the name of freedom. It shows how their heads are full with hatered. I feel sorry about that. Don't let you destroy your civilization with your hands

[oliver]

Jesus Christ (peace be upon him)... If the level of argument against these bloody Danish cartoons is as lame and downright wack as it is here - even allowing for these posts having possibly suffered in translation - then it's a complete walkover for the forces of free speech and Carlsberg. Rock on you Danes.

[c nesrallah]

the cartoons were NOT random depictions of Muhammed being raped or fkd up the ass, they were depictions done during a pathetic era of human un-civilization when suicide bombings and beheadings in the name of the very same Muhammed are commonplace -- and that questioned how the teachings of a religious man could somehow be used to do something so heinous and barbaric as to KILL?! an important question, yes or no? a simple answer that i've heard from time to time -- actually, the only answer -- is that moslems have a right to defend their faith from the westerners who seek to destroy it. what a pathetic excuse for killing because who believes that Islam is so fragile? in fact, i think it's the fastest growing religion in the world. and how do you prove that this individual you randomly kill has, in fact, sought to destroy Islam? do you put them on trial first? do you collect evidence, get the facts, testimonials, etc? how do you explain killing AID workers? or a british women who married an Iraqi? you can't connect them to Israeli and US bombs killing innocent moslems. for to do so, is to ignore that there are US and Israeli citizens who are fighthing their very own governments in an attempt to bring peace and justice to all. Moderate moslems need to denounce suicide bombers and join forces with western peace activists. at the least, refrain from painting every westerner with an evil brush. crying death to westerners sounds woefully ignorant of the fact that most western countries are friends of Islam. In fact, what would Palestinians do when all of the westerners are dead and gone? there is legitimate concern that the election of Hamas will mean an end to WESTERN aid. this is because not ONE dollar of the 1 billion dollars that the Palestinians receive every year, comes from an arabic country -- it ALL comes from western countries. perhaps islamist groups could use their intelligence and resources to answer the very important question of how some fundamentalist extremists have managed to co-opt and twist the peaceful teachings of Muhammed and also do some fundraising for their poorest brothers and sisters, instead of pathetically accusing others of insulting Islam. the cartoonists have asked a question. the extermists have insulted Islam.

[Mads EEH]

First of all i want to cealrify thet there originally was 12 drawings, and not 15. the three extra has nothing to do with the danish newspaper. secondly, ity was a stupid foolish provocating act. Like a small child testing the consquences of yelling fuck in churce. Thridrly LOOK at the drawings the real ones with your OWN eyes. Many of them even ridicule the whole concept and stats that its a PR stunt. They are NOT to be taken seriously. And fourthly the danish Newspaper has apologised.

IM a dane. IM NOT itolrente, I have muslim freinds. No one can rightfully accuse me of being responsible for those drawings.

And remember its drawings. People would have been burned in the middleage for drawing Jesus in that way, but look around, this isn´t the middle ages. you can piss on a cross for all i care, and still live to tell the tale. oyu might get a fine, but not a whol religion condemming you.
be reasonable

[amira]

I am a Muslim myself, but I must admit that I was not in the least bothered by these cartoons, ‎simply because I am sure prophet Mohammed himself would not care about something ‎trivial like that! He was insulted and mistreated during his lifetime so often and still he ‎never acted aggressively or offended. You know what he did to anyone insulting him or ‎Islam? He prayed for them, he prayed that God may show them the right path. He was a ‎forgiving man with a beautiful soul. And he definitely would not support boycotting ‎Danish products or mistreating Danish people simply because he would never support ‎harming anyone, neither innocent nor evil. Therefore, I am urging my fellow Muslims to ‎try to imitate his beautiful, compassionate, peace loving behavior. Try to show the rest of ‎the world that our Prophet and all of us Muslims are too noble and too pure to care about ‎some silly cartoon in some unknown newspaper! ‎

[A dane]

I'm as danish as can be. Blond, blue eyes and roots back to the viking kings (no kidding), and I'm NOT a racist! Neither is 99% of the danish population. I have a lot of muslim friends, GOOD friends, and they can't recognize the stories about denmark having a "hateful atmosphere towards muslims" either. Most muslims are in fact speaking out against people as Akhmad Akkari at the moment in Denmark, including danish muslim politicians!

Please remember that Jyllands Posten NEVER printet the three very degrading pictures (which must some from some racists - I have never seen such pictures here in denmark), but only the twelve satirical pictures, and that was not as a question about if the muslim counrties could act out against free speech, but rather a test to see if speech is actually as free as we want it to be. It's actually kind of lucky that the whole world now gets to see how "free" it is - embargos or not! The pictures themselves were never EVER ment to be racist og degrading toward muslims, but just to see what 12 different comic-artists would do with the taboo-ridden assignment; "draw mohammed"!

(Btw. thanks for the Buy Danish campaigns you guys!)

Denmark has a looong tradition of making satirical comics (and in general making fun of) EVERYTHING! Political leaders, religion and religious figures and not at least our selves and our belives, so it's not a valid argument to dare Jyllands Posten to print satiric cartoons of Jesus or atheists - It's already been done over and over again! You would know that if you knew anything about denmark, it's culture and it's people!

I don't know what the danish muslim religious "leaders" thought that it would bring, when they went on tour with the 12 pictures, a lot of misinformation and 3 aditional very degrading pictures, but if anything this has cooled the air against native danes and the islamic here in denmark, sadly enough! It is ofcourse sad, that so many people has been offended by something, when they don't even know the danish culture and the reason for it being printed, but I really hope that the danish government and Jyllands Posten don't give in and excuse for the pictures. Just note that they were not ment to be taken as serious as they have been! They were ment for denmark and the danish people, who knows and understand what a DANISH satirical cartoon is all about. They were NOT ment to be printed in a newspaper in the islamic region to make fun of their religion!

[A dane]

P.S. Amira, beautifully said!

[amira]

I think Muslims and non Muslims should stop accusing each other of killing innocent ‎people, since human beings, no matter what religion or what nationality they belong to, ‎have been killing each other since the day of their creation. History has shown us so ‎many horrible and morbid examples, that one would hate all human beings, if one were ‎not a human being himself/herself! And we don't have to take wars or persecutions or ‎religious fanaticism as an example, we don't have to mention Nagasaki and Hiroshima, ‎Auschwitz or the apartheid in South Africa, Burundi, Sudan, the IRA or the Basque ‎separatists, the Palestinians or the Chechnyans to prove the evilness of the human soul. ‎Just look around the corner, you will find sons killing their mothers, husbands killing ‎their wives, school children killing each other... the stories are endless! This proves that ‎evil has been always there, not ignited by religion or beliefs, but by the wickedness of the ‎human soul. And unfortunately, I don't see an end to harming each other. We will always ‎be doing that, in the name of God, of religion, of oil, of freedom, of greed, of ‎frustration....‎

[Realist]

Mad men cannot be allowed to run the asylum!
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_7.html#harriss
Quoting from the above link:
"While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. It has also obliged us to lie to ourselves — repeatedly and at the highest levels — about the compatibility between religious faith and scientific rationality."

Let's roll...