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Whether a butterfly's wing beat can cause a tornado is still a central debate of chaos theory. But it is now proven that drawings first published more than four months ago in Denmark have seeded outrage among Muslims from Gaza to Jakarta and embittered believers making their lives in Europe. An editor's decision--call it feisty or cavalier--to ask Danish cartoonists to depict the Prophet Muhammad has provoked a volcanic reaction, from a Muslim boycott of Danish goods to the torching of two European embassies in Damascus to death threats and lawsuits against newspapers, and even...
...Death to Denmark? The whole affair seems to offer proof not only of chaos theory but also of Emily Post's dictum that you ought not to talk about religion--or to be prepared for anything if you do. To Muslims, the drawings were blasphemy, a violation of a cultural protocol not to portray the Prophet. The range of reactions to the cartoon's publication among Muslims and non-Muslims alike served as a reminder of the gaping divide that still exists between the West and much of the Islamic world. In a show of solidarity for their journalistic brethren...
Indeed, in the past five years, our productivity hit 3.5%, surpassing those magic years. Our only rivals at the top of the productivity list are the postage-stamp Scandinavians (Finland, Denmark and Sweden), while the lumbering giants we so fear, China and India, rank 49th and 50th...
FLEMMING ROSE Culture editor of Denmark's Jyllands-Posten, who commissioned the drawings...
...symbols in schools. But when asked about the threats directed at Europeans in the Gaza strip as the result of the cartoons, he said, "He who sows the wind reaps a tempest." Meanwhile, Western governments were left with no options much better than to straddle the dilemma the way Denmark did: by regretting the hurt caused by something they didn't do, while pointing out that they have no means or desire to punish journalists who did. But the dispute seems to have acquired a life of its own. Nestle, for example, took out ads in the Middle East early...