Dubai Consumer Mirror: This Danish thing again..

Sunday, February 05, 2006

This Danish thing again..

I have written 3 posts on this whole Danish cartoons mess, but left them saved as drafts and never published them - don't know why. Today, however, i think this issue has taken a whole new dimension in underlining the huge gap between the muslim and the western worlds.

I received an email today with this screen shot from by Al Jazeerah news channel quoting the Le Monde newspaper.

"Jyske Bank in Denmark is anticipating that if the boycott goes on for a whole year, 11000 jobs will be lost in Denmark along with EU 1 billion in financial losses."

A whole year?

6 Comments:

crikey.

By CG, at February 5, 2006 at 10:48 PM
I want my LURPAK!

By *, at February 6, 2006 at 2:05 AM
If the ban lasts a year, we won't have any Danish products to buy at the end of it - they'll all be out of business.

I'm despairing at the stupidity shown by the east and the west at the moment over this issue.

The west's handling of the issue is deplorable and the east's reaction is over the top.

By nzm, at February 6, 2006 at 9:28 AM
And sadly, the violent and extreme reaction is only serving to strengthen the negative view of Muslims and Islam throughout the West.

It's only going to get worse.

By Anonymous, at February 6, 2006 at 8:04 PM
mood - I call it stupidity because nothing is fixing the situation, it's just inflaming it.

I don't see the sense in western papers continuing to publish the tasteless cartoons and promote the idiot cartoonist, and I don't see the sense in people burning down embassies.

And now an Iranian newspaper has started a Holocaust Cartoon Competition in retaliation to the Danish cartoons. (see page 4 of today's 7 Days)

That's what I call stupidity - and senseless too. Why start to drag other religions and countries into it - for the hell of it?

And up until now (and somebody correct me if I've missed something), I haven't seen/heard/read anything from any country's leader that would make me believe that these people are capable of finding their way out of a paper bag, let alone ruling their countries.

The GCC leaders should have issued a joint protest condemning the cartoons, and giving reasons why images of the Prophet (PBUH) are considered sacrilegious to the Islam faith.

Instead we have riotous crowds encouraged by clerics who are running around fuelling the flames with, I believe, a mix of the published cartoons and some caricatures of the Prophet that weren't even published by the papers - and weren't even drawn by the Dane.

The ban on Danish products and a GCC condemnation would have been enough. Orderly protests in the streets would have been a civilised response.

The Danish export economy would have suffered greatly, (and still will), and we wouldn't have the western world once again seeing Muslims rioting and protesting in the streets, and giving credence to every westerner who thinks that all Muslims are terrorists and that Islam approves of the way in which they are behaving.

That's why what is happening is stupid.

That's my Freedom Speech - or my 0.02 fils - whichever way you look at it!

:-)

By nzm, at February 7, 2006 at 9:13 PM
Sorry - not off my soapbox yet!

As a result of the Danish embassy burning and the Danish flag burnings in Beirut, Lebanon has apologised to Denmark.

Because of a few uncontrollable people, a country that was not in the wrong has had to apologise to the country in which it all started.

I only hope that somewhere along the line, that Denmark will have the grace to do the same, but I think that the reaction from the East has been too extreme for them to entertain that notion now.

And I do hope that I'm proven to be wrong here.

By nzm, at February 7, 2006 at 9:28 PM