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Harper's this month has a discussion by Art Spiegelman

by Ziks511 May 9, 2006 9:47PM PDT

of Maus fame of the Jyllands Post anti-Mohammed cartoons. Missed in all the furore previously aired on this subject is the fact that the Jyllands Post is a nasty anti-immigrant daily newspaper with a long history of provocation. The cartoons with a couple of exceptions are tame, one of them actually mocks the Jyllands Post in Farsi. I enjoyed it quite a lot.

It also includes a history of editorial cartooning and the fact that in order to create the frenzy in Afghanistan and Pakistan the Muslim extremists responsible for stirring things up had to add 3 really rank cartoons of their own because there just wasn't enough controversy in the original group.

Rob

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Interesting from Wikipedia

by Evie May 9, 2006 9:53PM PDT

Jyllands-Posten has been criticised by a number of organisations for having an anti-minority and anti-migrant agenda. In 2002 the Danish Council of the Press, criticised the newspaper for breaching its regulations on race while reporting on three Somalis charged with a crime.[9]. The relevant regulation was: "Any mention of family relations, occupation, race, nationality, faith or relationship to an organisation ought to be avoided, unless this has a direct relevance to the case,"

Great free speech they have there!

The 2004 report on Denmark by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), an organisation of NGOs funded partly by the European Commission, concluded that the Danish media devoted an excessive proportion of their time to the problems posed by immigrants, and most often Islamic immigrants, while often ignoring the problems that these immigrants face.

At last they are covering it! Seems PC is far worse over there