GUEST 11 Feb 06 - 03:14 AM

It is nice to know that you believe in the right to peaceful protest. Unfortunately much of the protest being done was far from peaceful, people were killed, criminal damage was done. The protest itself was totally irrational - "Death to Denmark"???? "Death to America"???? "Death to Israel"????.

"....and yes. When you commission twelve cartoons to be published and then others re-publish them, it is provocative and was meant to cause trouble."

Not at all GUEST I'll tell you what was provocative and what was specifically meant to cause trouble. Laban collecting as much "evidence" as he could in Denmark, then organising it into a dossier that fudged the issue as to what had been been published and what had not, that fudged the issue about what had been commissioned and what had not. Then he goes on a whistle-stop tour of the Muslin world to incite and inflame. That dear GUEST is provocation and intent to cause trouble.

Not wishing to state the obvious GUEST:

"you commission twelve cartoons to be published and then others re-publish them"

At the time the Editor who published the cartoons had absolutely no control over what "others" may, or may not do - Correct? Neither, could you say had Laban, but I would bet that Laban had a pretty shrewd idea of the effect his trip and message would have. No riots or protests of the type Laban's activities stirred up elsewhere occurred in Denmark or in Norway. Now if you are stating that the very core of your religious beliefs have been insulted and defiled, you don't wait four months to voice your sense of indignation.