I am a christian and have seen much much much more caricatures about Jesus and other Christian figures. To me, they are just normal and never enrage me. Why are the Muslims enraged by those cartoons, most of which are just purely for fun?

The difference between the pulishing of cartoons and the Muslim reaction is: The Muslim countries and peoples demand apology and future sensorship, which are irrational. They require the Christendom and other non-Islam culture to follow THEIR Islamic rules. The Muslims can demonstrate, boycott personally, burn and trample danish flags, but they can not force us to be obliged to their WAY OF LIVING in their own land and culture.

Besides, the displaying of those cartoons are freedom of expression and cause no direct harm to the ones that despise them. Why don't the Muslim retaliate by mocking our historical, religious and political figures? We are very tolerant to accept this. But intentional national boycott will violate international trade rule, and the eviction and attacks of Danes and Scandinavians, and their properties, are a serious violation of other's personal freedom and security. Such reaction are NO LONGER freedom of expression.

Now can you see the difference?

Your governments will apologize. you now why? because you worship nothing but money.
Money is the only holy thing for you.
Can you see the deference between you and me?
I believe in god and you believe in money.
Tschus

well the owner of france soir is muslim and antidemocratic he is against free expresion

What the hell does Heloise mean by an inferior way of life?

He or she needs to consider the gifts that the Islamic world has given the human experience.

Chess (Haron Al-Rashid give a board to Charlemange) Al-Jebra, streetlights, tooth-brush, the mall and many other contributions that are too many to list.

It should be noted that alot of what is going on in the middle east today was created by meddlesome europeans during the aftermath of world war I. Despotic, corrupt, backward thinking regimes have been encourage and supported, by the west, to encourage the theft of fossil fuels.

Der Spigel got it wrong in more ways than one.

"One group of Danish Muslims, led by a young imam named Ahmed Akkari, grew so frustrated by the inability of Muslims to get their message across in Denmark that they compiled a dossier of racist and culturally insensitive images circulating in the country and took them on an road show in the Arab World to raise awareness of the discrimination they faced.'

The only reason imam named Ahmed Akkari went on a road show was to purposely incite the Muslim world.

"There is currently a climate (in Denmark) that is contributing to an increase in racism,"

Muslims are not a race. It is a religion made up of many different races.

"To Muslim leaders in Denmark like Akkari and fellow imam Abu Laban, the images provided evidence of an Islamophobia that they believe permeates Danish society."

There is that word again..."Islamophobia". A phobia is a irrational fear. This is a made up word intended to dismiss unpleasant discussion about the Islamic faith. A person who is irrational cannot have anything of value to say now can he?

When Muslims are blowing up people, beheading people and threatening people around the world I would say it is entirely RATIONAL to be fearful.

A more realistic word(s) would be anti-Muslim.

The whole article is dhimmified.

What is dhimmi?

"Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, "protected people," are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, are part of the law that global jihadists are laboring to impose everywhere, ultimately on the entire human race.

The dhimmi attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today."

From: http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/

Educate yourself.

A short comment from a Dane to the article in Der Spiegel.
I think the most frustrating thing for Abu Laban and Ahmed Akkari is that they as Imams do not have any authority in the Danish society as such.
Today is has been revealed that Abu Laban when interviewed by Danish TV claims he wants the boycott to end but when interviewed by Arab TV praises the boycott…

Thanks for all your support.

Dan, you are obviously an asshole, at best or a racists at most.

Western people ring their hands, asking the mundane question: "why do they hate us?"Well, its not because of our freedoms. Its because the West never misses an opportunity to denigrate the Islamic way of life.

You need to get your shit striaght. There are churches and synagogues in many Islamic countries. Why single out Saudi Arabia? In many countries, where Muslims are the majority, muslims, jews and christians live in abstract harmony. As a matter of fact, it is a muslim family that has held the key to the gates of the Holy sepulcher church in Al-Quds

I only heard about this whole "cartoon story" today, thanks to this great web-site.
As an Israeli, living next to Muslim Arabs in this small country of ours, this is probably the most predicted outcome of publishing such caricatures.
If this comes surprising to Europeans, it can only be an evidence for the lack of knowledge and true insight regarding Islamic faith.
For me, there's no difference between Muslims living in Palestine, Denmark, Malaysia, Britain, Yemen or elsewhere, since Islam as a religion is less "religious", i.e. mostly faith-oriented like the modern forms of Judaism and Christianity, but rather a "portable hate baggage" for everything that has to do even remotely with western notions and values such as freedom, democracy, social progress, individuality, equality, etc.
Violent codes and terms are interwoven within Islamic teachings and even the Canonized sacred "Quran". This violence is towards Muslim infidels, women in general, and mainly towards what is called "Dar-El-Harb" - the non-Muslim world.
further more, the main narrative is telling the story of a future universal war against "Dar-El-Harb" that after it a world dominion of Islam rises, and during which all Muslims are obliged to kill every human being who won't willingly convert into Islam.
Naturally, for the Muslim mind this goes way beyond caricatures, this is "Islam in action" - organized hatred and violent acts against the "western infidels", these "pigs" that will eventually find, with Allah's guidance and blessings, their death by Muslim-hands as promised in the holly Quran.
Mind you, the above might not be considered as slander or racist remarks, but simply the most basic observation on traditional Muslim teachings.
Of course, every Muslim is bound by Allah to strongly deny and contradict all of the above (the Quran gives permission and even recommends lying freely to any non-Muslim for all causes).