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Re: Timing is suspect
By:mir
Date: Monday, 6 February 2006, 1:27 pm
In Response To: Re: Timing is suspect (A Dane)

I can tell you that there are people in this country (USA) who are calling on people to support (buy) Danish products here. This outbreak is resulting in some negative press against the Muslim extremists.

I don't know what products are Danish here. But if I find them, I'll buy them.

> I'm not sure. But I'm not too fond of
> translations either - not today when our
> lovely queen was made the object of many
> people's hate after a wrong translation in a
> British newspaper...
> A copy of the Danish text can be found at:
> http://www.aiu.dk/avisnet/show.php?id=812
> By no means! What's so horrible about this
> whole mess is that it is all due to a huge
> lack of understanding - on both sides. The
> newspaper should have known and understood
> that it would hurt a LOT of people's very
> strong feelings and press some buttons that
> are still sore from the Christian crusades a
> thousand years ago. (They still play quite a
> big part in islamic identity.)

> On the other hand, the (extremist) Muslim
> representatives in Denmark and elsewhere
> have no understanding of the way the free
> press works in a democracy. Leaders and
> "the people in the streets" call
> out for our prime minister and our queen to
> do something - apologize, shut down the
> newspaper or (as heard today) execute the
> cartoonists immediately. That is, of course,
> ridiculous.

> I'm sorry - I have no solutions. And my
> feelings about the whole tragedy are really
> mixed at the moment. I am deeply saddened to
> see and hear the anger so many people have
> for my country. Until now, the bad choice of
> the newspaper editors has not only cost a
> whole lot of money and jobs in Denmark
> (boycotts), it has also meant the death of
> at least 4 people. And indirectly perhaps
> many more, because the many, many Danish aid
> volunteers in the Middle and Far East (and
> Africa now, too) have to return to their
> bases to avoid attacks.

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