2006年..

..THE YEAR OF TOLERANCE(?)

Last year in September the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten published 12 caricatures about the Islam, or better what the cartoonists are thinking when they be asked about their opinion about the Islam.

Now, since several days nearly the entire Muslim world is exploding. Yesterday in Jakarta Muslim ‚activists‘ stormed the Danish embassy and demanded the "slaughter of the ambassador". The day before thousands of activists in Yeman demonstrated against Denmark and other Scandinavian countries. In the territories of the Palestinian ‚Authorithy‘ armed groups stormed offices of the EU and European organizations and declared European employees as "legitime targets". Also before y’day a German volonteer was kidnapped in Nablus(and shortly later released, because the kidnappers found out that he was not a Dane..).

Since decades every day especially Arab newspapers are full with caricatures against the Jews, the New Christian(no chr.!^^) Crusaders or the bad influence of the Western life style and ‚democracy‘. Even cartoonists in the West are following this way(for example the Brazilian Latuf),

http://intifada.or.kr/tree/

but not even in Tel Aviv someone is caring about it... nobody is threaten in Europe to burn down Arab embassies or to hurt Muslims as "legitime targets"(and also no Israeli was/is targeting the S. Korean publishers of this 'cartoons' by Latuf..).

It seems that the struggle of free speech against religious dictatorship(well, call it "The Clash of the Civilisations"..) is just beginning. BTW: If the "new fighters against self-censorship" would also fight against their self-censorship in the case of the war in Iraq, or about Guantanamo, or secret torture prisons... then the 'democracy' would win a lot! But, actually, I don't believe, not really...

If you have any idea about it, critic(even against my text) or note, just write a memo!!

Well, here some of the caricatures in Jyllands Posten: