“ We deplore these statements and publications and urge Your Excellency ' s government to take all those responsible to task under law of the land in the interest of inter-faith harmony, better integration and Denmark ' s overall relations with the Muslim world.”
This, to me, when considering Denmark’ s censorship law that has been in place since 1849, does not sound like a healthy relationship at all; rather, it sounds like a bully muscling its way in.
Following this, there was a judicial investigation of Jyllens-Posten; it rightly turned to nothing when the magic words that Islam hates and fears“ freedom of speech” were uttered. Flag burnings not just of Denmark but of France, Norway and even Switzerland were fairly commonplace. Protests, rallies and riots were held across the globe in response, resulting in over 200 deaths and massive damage to several Danish embassies across the world, including a big one in London; Christians and churches were also viscously attacked in some of the Muslim-majority regions. Three high-profile national ministers lost their jobs in direct response to this crisis; Roberto Calderoli, Laila Freivalds and a Libyan interior minister. Speaking of ministers: in India, Haji Yaqoob Qureishi, a minister in the Uttar Pradesh state government, announced a cash reward for anyone who beheaded " the Danish cartoonist ", who caricatured Mohammad.
There was an Arab states boycott not just against Denmark but against many European countries, resulting in major losses for some companies. Arla, Denmark’ s biggest exporter to the Middle East, lost a staggering 1.3 million Euros per day during the early stages of the boycott. The BBC reported the end cost to Danish businesses was 134 million Euros.
The cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, was physically attacked repeatedly and was nearly murdered in his home by an axe-wielding madman, who shouted“ we will get our revenge”; but Westergaard managed to lock himself in his panic room, and now lives under police protection. In 2010 three men were arrested for the planned terror attack against the newspaper firm; and, in
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