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...which juxtaposed documentary footage of husbands beating their Islamic wives in the name of Allah and the same women praying, their bodies covered in verses from the Koran. In Islam, any visual portrayal of the prophet is blasphemous and last year, it seemed that the Dutch were too afraid of reprisals from Muslim fundamentalists for author Kåre Bluitgen to find an illustrator for his children’s book about Muhammad. A major Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten responded by publishing twelve “blasphemous” cartoons last September to “test whether fear...
...Dutch illustrators are not the only ones who feel intimidated by Islamic fundamentalists. Pressured by extremists, the EU and related organizations hesitated to speak out, waiting until they had practically no choice but to intervene...
...images per se were not the problem; many newspapers satirize religion and Muslim newspapers have published provocative anti-Christian articles and cartoons. Nor did Jyllands-Posten deliberately incite Muslim violence; the newspaper is aimed at the Dutch public, not Muslims in particular. It is ludicrous to suggest that the newspaper should have issued a warning to Muslim readers...
...following disclosures that he had served briefly in the Hitler Youth. Italy prohibits publicly insulting religion - but whether the law protects Islam hasn't been tested. To many Muslims in Europe, that's a particular rub. Laws touted as evenhanded appear to tilt in favor of the home team. Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, before he was murdered by a radical Islamist in Amsterdam, was a poster boy for unconditional free speech. He said Muslims had sex with goats and that a Jewish writer with whom he disagreed had erotic dreams about Nazi death-camp doctor Josef Mengele...
...just his way." Plus, Hedrick wanted to relish his gold. "I've never been one to go home and go to bed at 10:00 when I do something well," he says. Chad Hedrick, with three days to recover from a busy night? Davis or not, the Dutch should watch...