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Newspaperindex - the blog | Newspapers of the world, media, free speech and update on the newspaper catalogue Newspaper Index » UN to Investigate Jyllands-Posten ‘Racism’
I go over to The Brussels Journal to read the news that for some reason or the other doesn't find it's way into Reuters or the BBC very often. Yes I do find the everyday clash of cultures and of religions fascinating. In this case over at The Brussels Journal I was reading a bit about a huge fight concerning some cartoons. Yes indeed, the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten last September published 12 cartoons which are political commentary about the state of Islam at this time. They published those cartoons when it was whispered and And by the way it took some time to actually find any copies of these 'controversal' cartoons on the web anywhere. The cartoons are here at The Brussels Journal and here at Newspaperindex.com . You won't find them at BBC, Reuters or any of the corporate world news outlets. The controversy is the fact that they were published. The fear of fundamentalist nutjobs doing what islamic fundamentalist nutjobs often do -namely the killing of non combatants in the cowardly fashion to which they have become accustomed is enough to stop the news cold. At issue is freedom of the press, freedom of expression and the right to disagree. If you happen to hold the controversal idea that Islam is in the hands of bloodthirsty savage fascist types bent on imposing their view of Islam on the rest of the world then my god you are dreadfully controversal. Despite the fact that this is the case, you will be labelled a rascist because I guess only rascists object to having their values stepped on by this iteration of Islam as a barbaric fascist religion. It's a battle, it's a fight and many of those on the receiving end of this battle don't even acknowledge that it's going on.
I go over to The Brussels Journal to read the news that for some reason or the other doesn't find it's way into Reuters or the BBC very often. Yes I do find the everyday clash of cultures and of religions fascinating. In this case over at The Brussels Journal I was reading a bit about a huge fight concerning some cartoons. Yes indeed, the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten last September published 12 cartoons which are political commentary about the state of Islam at this time. They published those cartoons when it was whispered and And by the way it took some time to actually find any copies of these 'controversal' cartoons on the web anywhere. The cartoons are here at The Brussels Journal and here at Newspaperindex.com . You won't find them at BBC, Reuters or any of the corporate world news outlets. The controversy is the fact that they were published. The fear of fundamentalist nutjobs doing what islamic fundamentalist nutjobs often do -namely the killing of non combatants in the cowardly fashion to which they have become accustomed is enough to stop the news cold. At issue is freedom of the press, freedom of expression and the right to disagree. If you happen to hold the controversal idea that Islam is in the hands of bloodthirsty savage fascist types bent on imposing their view of Islam on the rest of the world then my god you are dreadfully controversal. Despite the fact that this is the case, you will be labelled a rascist because I guess only rascists object to having their values stepped on by this iteration of Islam as a barbaric fascist religion. It's a battle, it's a fight and many of those on the receiving end of this battle don't even acknowledge that it's going on.
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