Carol, I notice that "..a large number of attacks against Muslims, some resulting in the killings of Muslim immigrants" has by now been downgraded to "I have found at least one person who claims that there was violence against Muslims in Denmark"..

Okay, so could you please supply some details as to which Muslim(s) has/have been attacked when and where? If we're talking about one specific incident, it wouldn't be so hard to come up with some facts, so the rest of us can check it out for ourselves? Was your informant Danish? Muslim? a Muslim Dane?

The D Notice mentioned by Giok is a British concept. We don't have anything like that here. So, there's no way the Danish government could have imposed any prior ban on the cartoons as you seem to think when writing "If they were, they wouldn't have been so reluctant to put a 'D Notice' on those cartoons, would they?".

The Danish government *cannot* impose any kind of D Notice or ban on anything a paper might decide to print. The papers are answerable to the courts, if they print something that's against the law of the land - derogatory, defamatory or what have you. Whoever's offended by what they write may take the matter to court. But the press *never* has to ask ahead whether or not it can print this or that article or - in this case - cartoon. Equally, the Danish government is not in any way resonsible for anything the Danish press prints.

I realize that this can be hard to understand for people living in countries where you don't get one peep out of the press without government say-so, but I rather did think a person living in the USA might understand the concept of "free press".

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