Help Denmark - Support Freedom of Speech

(shouldn't be here, I know, Sorry, but we need your help)

http://www.supportdenmark.com

Earlier last year, a childrens book was being written. However, it was impossible to get anyone to draw Muhammed, the Islamic Prophet, of fear of being "hunted down" by islamic extremists (since its against their religion to depicture Muhammed). Because of this, the (independent) newspaper Jylands-Posten got 12 people gathered, that were willing to draw Muhammed, in light of the matter (the pictures can be seen here: http://www.quickrob.com/political/muhammed_cartoons.html).
There was an uproar in the islamic societies.
A few months ago, a nordish newspaper re-printed the same pictures.
About a month or so ago, a couple of danish Mulla's decided to go around the world, suggesting that all muslims around the world should boycot any and all danish products.
You can read more on the matter here:
http://denmark.dk/portal/page?_pageid=374,880218&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
http://195.224.230.11/english/?id=15591
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=18986_The_Cartoon_Jihad#comments

Short in short:
Countries are now demanding that the newspaper, the goverment, and the danish Queen all apologize for printing the pictures. They (the (extremist) muslims) also want us to legislate further that we cannot print pictures of Muhammed, and they want the goverment to close down the newspaper, and as such directly cutting away freedom of speech and press (all have denied apologizing for printing the pictures, they have though said they were sorry people were so offended, but that they did nothing wrong). The danish flag has been set on fire. Threats have been made. Images of bombs over danish tourist attractions have been posted on the web. However, we stand firm. Over 80% of the danish population feel that no one should be apologizing for anything, especially not having freedom of speech, and we will not back down on that.

Arla, a danish diery company, is loosing up to 10 million kr. a day right now, and need to fire 100's of workers.

So what I want from you? Buy any danish products if you can.
If not, then go here: http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/21097.html and voice your oppinion.

And please, if you have a blog, a website, visit any forums. Post this. Feel free to copy/paste this as it is.
Please just get this out. Get it on the web more.




Some usefull links:
A banner: http://www.ridingsun.com/files/BuyDanishGif2.GIF
Where you can buy danish products: http://www.danishfood.net/

I hope you'll help us out in some form or another.

I've been drinking as much Bear Beer as I can find, but I'm only one man!

What goes around comes around. All of the special interest groups that have been clamoring for political correctness and the stamping out of hate speech probably never figured upon the pendulum continuing to swing. Now the religious groups don't want to be offended, either. Unfortunately, the cat is already out of the bag. Now everybody is going to be 'offended'.

FWIW, we recently bought a dining table made in Denmark. It is brillinantly designed, and extremely well built. We think it's the best table we have ever had, even counting our parents. So, cheers for Danish furniture products!

personally I reserve the right to take the piss out of ANY deity, god or folk-lorish being - whatever the damn religion.

This whole thing is stupid, makes muslims look stupid and feeds the fires of hatred.

Geez, if they dont like cartoons why the hell are people in the MIDDLE DAMN EAST reading DANISH DAMN CARTOONS???


(edit) alot of damns 'cos I've had a bad day heh.

Kind regards

Dave Rich

Sure Dave, once again we seem to be sharing the same problems.

Over 80% of the danish population feel that no one should be apologizing for anything, especially not having freedom of speech, and we will not back down on that.

That's fine: don't. I wish thousands of papers all around the world would publish those pictures to once an for all mark that freedom of speech is a greater value than fundamentalistic bigotry of any colour.

Arla, a danish diery company, is loosing up to 10 million kr. a day right now

So that's the price of freedom of speech? You want us to express political passions for a Danish dairy company?!

Administrators, please remove this topic. This is not a forum for political appeals, and certainly not for dairy business.


wb

This behaviour by religious extremists is deplorable, but please let's have some consistency.

These Muslims are in my view over-reacting by behaving in the way they are. But are they that much different from the Christian Ayaztollahs who are trying to get the movie Bareback Mountain banned, for example, especially when there is nothing even in Bareback Mountain that can reasonably be said to be mocking their religion?

So yes, I agree with Zeplin, but I wouldn't single out just one religion for criticism in this regard.