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Iranian leaders, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, call the controversy over the Mohammed cartoons "a blessing from God". Amir Taheri says the whole shebang was a carefully planned and coordinated set-up. He's got the story here.
Some Danes are now saying the same thing.
The Danish media and Government have accused a group of Danish imams of stoking up the "cartoon wars" by touring the Middle East with a dossier to seek international support for their protest.
See also this piece entitled "A carefully orchestrated outrage".
This version of events gains credibility from the fact that an Egyptian newspaper re-produced several of the allegedly blasphemous, offensive, and insulting cartoons back in October, but no one said a discouraging word. Now watch the video! Today's New York Times connects some of the dots, but it still doesn't have the whole story.
The group put together a 43-page dossier, including the offending cartoons and three more shocking images that had been sent to Danish Muslims who had spoken out against the Jyllands-Posten cartoons.
Mr. Akkari denied that the three other offending images had contributed to the violent reaction, saying the images, received in the mail by Muslims who had complained about the cartoons, were included to show the response that Muslims got when they spoke out in Denmark.
Yeah, right! Didn't the Times used to undertake investigative journalism? Nowadays, it seems to have trouble just keeping up with yesterday's news.
Taheri reference via The Free West.
Egyptian newspapers via little green footballs.
Video reference via Michelle Malkin.
[...] Norwegians more skeptical of Islam By StatGuy Angus-Reid Consultants, one of Canada's leading public opinion research firms, reports on a poll indicating that, because of the Cartoon Jihad, Norwegians are taking a more skeptical view of Islam. Has the uproar over the cartoons changed your opinion on Islam as a religion? [...]
[...] Now you tell us! Where were those guys during the anti-cartoon demonstrations last February? Where were they when other, more radical, European imams were demanding, and receiving, apologies from European governments for standing idly by while their independent newspapers exercised their "human right" of "free speech"? [...]
[...] He gave a presentation to the Ottawa Press Club on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day. The title was “Cartoon Wars” and the subject was the Danish Mohammed cartoons that occasioned riots across the Muslim world and protest marches and death threats across Europe. The Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists has posted the entire presentation—including numerous political cartoons from around the world—at its website. [...]
[...] When it comes to the intimidation and riots overseas, however, it's a whole 'nother story. The Danish imams who took the cartoons to the Middle East inflamed the situation by circulating fabricated cartoons and gained the support of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in their fraud. [...]
[...] Peter MacKay on Canada?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s new approach to foreign policy By StatGuy Peter MacKay got off to a shaky start as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. His anemic reaction to the Mohammed Cartoon Jihad—basically, “Let’s all calm down, respect each other, and just get along nicely”—seemed to parrot the typical line taken by the do-nothing foreign policy establishment. Since then, however, he’s improved steadily, I think, and in the Lebanon conflict, he’s beginning to shine. [...]
[...] Denmark emerged as a front line in Islamist attempts to refashion Western public mores as a result of the Cartoon Jihad, launched over Mohammed cartoons originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. [...]
82 Kurt Westergaards at risk from terrorists…
Kurt Westergaard, the man who drew the cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, has been the subject of death plots since his work was first published over two years ago. The recent re-publication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons has sparked…