You know what bothers me about this situation? One cartoonist in one newspaper in one country drew this. But the shit is going to land all over Scandinavia! It wasn't a Norwegain paper, nor a Swedish, but we get pulled in anyway. (Sweden less than the others, beause we've got such a good name.)
The truth is though that all religions get a smackdown every now and then. For the Muslims it's just more difficult because for the whole start of the millenium, they've gotten more than their fair share.
The news editor apologised for hurting the people, but not for printing it. Because it is his right to print whatever, thanks to the freedom of press. And I support that. And being that it was this individual newspaper that printed it, their suffering should be that they lose a huge part of their demography in readers, of Muslims and other Islamic supporters. I don't see the need to pull entire countries into it. (To be honest I laughed when I saw that they were burning Norwegian flags. I just supposed that they had difficulty seeing the difference between them. Now that I know why Norwegian flags were burned too... -_-')
(To be honest, that link of yours was the first time I finally got to see these pics. Man, where they boring! If you're gonna insult someone, at least be funny when you do it. Yeesh.)
Ohh, and did you read the comments on the link? The second one is rather interesting.
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The truth is though that all religions get a smackdown every now and then. For the Muslims it's just more difficult because for the whole start of the millenium, they've gotten more than their fair share.
The news editor apologised for hurting the people, but not for printing it. Because it is his right to print whatever, thanks to the freedom of press. And I support that. And being that it was this individual newspaper that printed it, their suffering should be that they lose a huge part of their demography in readers, of Muslims and other Islamic supporters. I don't see the need to pull entire countries into it. (To be honest I laughed when I saw that they were burning Norwegian flags. I just supposed that they had difficulty seeing the difference between them. Now that I know why Norwegian flags were burned too... -_-')
(To be honest, that link of yours was the first time I finally got to see these pics. Man, where they boring! If you're gonna insult someone, at least be funny when you do it. Yeesh.)
Ohh, and did you read the comments on the link? The second one is rather interesting.