Reply #28: Consider this article by Daniel Pipes

[Clara T]

Again this is not a secret plot between Denmark and the US, at least not in my opinion, but is a confluence of interests between like-minded in both countries as happens between many factions from other nations.

These cartoons were done for a purpose though it wasn't necessarily to be clearly understood that such a firestorm would result. That is really a matter of timing and certain geo-political climates. It's never possible to predict outcomes but you can certainly keep agitating to increase the likelihood of getting the desired result.

And again understand the connection between Flemming Rose and Daniel Pipes. It's not like Rose even ran the cartoons by Pipes and said ...... it's more a matter of evryday affairs.

You'll see in this thread an article by Flemming Rose re: Daniel Pipes. Pipes by the way is an ardent Bush supporter and definitely an ideologue to put it kindly.

Cartoons and Islamic Imperialism

By DANIEL PIPES
February 7, 2006

The key issue at stake in the battle over the 12 Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad is this: Will the West stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech, or will Muslims impose their way of life on the West? Ultimately, there is no compromise: Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

More specifically, will Westerners accede to a double standard by which Muslims are free to insult Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism, while Muhammad, Islam, and Muslims enjoy immunity from insults? Muslims routinely publish cartoons far more offensive than the Danish ones. Are they entitled to dish it out while being insulated from similar indignities?

Germany's Die Welt newspaper hinted at this issue in an editorial: "The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they were less hypocritical. When Syrian television showed drama documentaries in prime-time depicting rabbis as cannibals, the imams were quiet." Nor, by the way, have imams protested the stomping on the Christian cross embedded in the Danish flag.

The deeper issue here, however, is not Muslim hypocrisy but Islamic supremacism. The Danish editor who published the cartoons, Flemming Rose, explained that if Muslims insist "that I, as a non-Muslim, should submit to their taboos ... they're asking for my submission." Precisely. Robert Spencer rightly called on the free world to stand "resolutely with Denmark." The informative Brussels Journal asserts, "We are all Danes now."

http://www.nysun.com/article/27151