This is just unreal. Apparently, a commission of Danish Muslims toured the Middle East (specially Egypt), seeking support for their outrage against the cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
What has now been revealed is that
this commission ADDED 3 FALSE CARTOONS, extremely offensive, that the Jyllands-Posten never published (and I doubt would ever published, due to their pornographic nature). So, in order to add fuel to the fire, they had to add three extremely offensive cartoons THAT WERE NEVER PART OF THE 12 CARTOONS PUBLISHED by Jyllands-Posten.
Here's the report from Spiegel:
Alienated Danish Muslims Sought Help from Arabshttp://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,398624,00.html....
Quist says the dossier they shared in Egypt may have been far more damaging than the Jyllands-Posten episode -- and it may have further exacerbated misgivings between Denmark and the Arab world. In addition to the now notorious caricatures published by the newspaper which have now spread like wildfire in the blogosphere,
it also included patently offensive anti-Muslim images that had been sent to the group by other Muslims living in Denmark. The origins or authenticity of the images haven't been confirmed, but their content was nevertheless damaging. Quist says the dossier included three obscene caricatures -- one showed Muhammad as a pedophile, another as a pig and the last depicted a praying Muslim being raped by a dog.
Here you have the links to the extremely offensive FALSE cartoons that sparked the outrage (NOTE: may not be office-safe):
ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger40.jpg
ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger38.jpg
ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger39.jpg
Seems to me that, in order to incite this furore over some Western country offending their religious sensitivities, they had to LIE by adding a bunch of FALSE cartoons that were never published by the Jyllands-Posten.
Just a few questions, off the top of my head:
- Why they did that? Why the felt the need to incite this rage?
- Did they really want to start an out of control outrage?
- Why NOW? The cartoons were published in SEPTEMBER 2005? Why this timing?