Denmark should not apologise for Mohammed cartoons Sat Jan 28, 7:56 AM ET COPENHAGEN (AFP) - A majority of Danes feel their government and media should not apologise to Muslims for controversial cartoons in a Danish newspaper depicting Mohammed, a poll has shown. ADVERTISEMENT Twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, published in the daily Jyllands-Posten last September and reprinted in a Norwegian magazine earlier this month, have sparked an uproar in the Muslim world since images of the prophet are considered blasphemous. The Saudi ambassador to Copenhagen was recalled to Riyadh earlier this week over the row, and Kuwait said Saturday it would summon the Danish ambassador over what it called "despicable racism". Danish food giant Arla Foods said meanwhile it was being targeted by a boycott in Saudi Arabia. In a poll for Danish Radio Saturday by the Epinion research institute which questioned 579 people in Denmark, 79 percent said Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen should not apologise on Denmark's behalf, 18 percent said he should and three percent were undecided. Meanwhile, 62 percent said Jyllands-Posten should not apologise, 31 percent said it should and seven percent were undecided. Forty-eight percent said any intervention in the affair by the prime minister would represent unjustified meddling in press freedoms, while 44 percent said he should make greater efforts to explain the Danish point of view. The survey also showed that 58 percent of those questioned believed that Jyllands-Posten was within its rights to publish the caricatures but expressed understanding for Muslims' criticism. The cartoons include portrayal of the Prophet wearing a time-bomb shaped turban and show him as a wild-eyed, knife-wielding bedouin flanked by two women shrouded in black. The Danish media and the prime minister have defended the publication of the cartoons, upholding freedom of expression as a fundamental human right -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
