Another day . . . . .
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/as...sts/index.html
New Zealand and Australia papers publish the caricatures.
London Police under pressure to arrest protesters who displayed placards demanding violence.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/eu...sts/index.html
Interesting subject of the day - Denmark apparently has a law against blasphemy and the Danish foreign minister was apparently trying to sell it to Muslim nations as a good point about his country . . . . . . should such a law even be on the books in a country that claims to be religiously tolerant?
"The Danish government urges all leaders, political and religious, in the countries concerned to call on their populations to remain calm and refrain from violence," Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said in Copenhagen.
"We all have a responsibility to avoid that the situation escalates any further and to contain the violent protests and to return to dialogue."
Despite his government's repeated efforts in the past, Moeller seemed to struggle to get across the message to Muslims that his government, like most Western nations, does not control what is published.
"We do not print the papers -- the government does not print the papers," he said. "There's freedom of expression."
He repeatedly explained that Denmark has a law against blasphemy, and it is up to the courts -- not the Danish government -- to decide whether a newspaper is guilty of blasphemy.
Cowperson