Fried Danish anyone?
Feb 7th, 2006 by Peter
Things have heated up in the world these days. And guess which country is in the centre of attention?
Since the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten decided to print 12 cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, things have accelerated from a heated debate, to boycott of Danish goods, to demonstrations, to burning of Danish flags, to setting fire on Danish embassies. Many muslims are pretty upset about what they find very insulting pictures and do their best to make it show. Well, actually Denmark is now not the only target of attention as other European newspapers now also have printed the pictures as well. Even though a Danish newspaper started the trouble, it seems that all of Denmark is now blamed.
Now the press flows with death threats against Danes. All from “Behead all Danes to cut the Danes to pieces” and you name it.
Danes in the Middle East have fled from possible problems. Furthermore the Danish Foreign Ministry have now advised many tourists to cancel their vacation in the most dangerous regions.
A lot of rumours are in the mill. Some true, others not. What went wrong, and when so is hard to say, but right now being Danish may not be something you flash at all chances in some countries. At least I am not in the middle of the inferno. I hope the situation will not escalate further, since this has now become a pretty serious global problem.
Just when you think you already have the world on your shoulders, this is what happens….
Scary … Maybe Glistrup will be right after all.
Note to foreign readers: Mogens Glistrup is a former radical Danish politician who insists that islam is pure evil, and that it’s only goal is to take over the world and enslave us all. Glistrup has now twice been confined to prison because of his direct attacks on islam in the media. He is not the most diplomatic person in the world, as you might have guessed ;-)
Ohh… btw: I have a few muslim friends myself, and none of them seem like a potential suicide bomber (even though “MB” could seem to pack 30kg of C4 under his shirt).