Disgusting.
AFAIK the Syrians didn't provide any security even though they had been asked by the governments involved as they feared attacks. It is an attack by proxy.
Part of teh debate here is whether it was responsible to have printed those cartoons and were they drawn deliberaetly to cause offence.
Well there are different levels. Maybe the journalist/cartoonist went too far in causing offence. I personally think not considering the cartoons I have seen about the Pope, Christ and Jews in the Arab press.
But as the Danish ambassador was saying on BBC24 (I think it was him) because of teh mistake of a single journalist why should other Danes have to suffere eg the ones who lost their jobs due to a boycott of Danish firms, those who might have been hurt in the riots etc..
As written on the BBC site IIRC one muslim top guy said what makes people more prejudiced against Mulsims, seeing cartoons like that or the riots people see on the TV.
Sure get offended, that is your right. Yes you can demonstrate, but peacefully, not burning flags and threatening to job peoples heads off.
Maybe in the west we don't have so much "respect" for religion as maybe 20 or 30 years ago but we have always taken the mickey out of it from a long way back. Part of cultural development in my opinion.
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