It\u00c2\u2019s easy to condemn the vandalism, the hatred and the violence. I am sure everyone here joins in this condemnation.<\/p>\n\n
But there\u00c2\u2019s still the uncomfortable fact that many European opinion-makers are reveling in provocation \u00c2\u2013 not only reprinting the cartoons but piling on new offense.<\/p>\n\n
In France the right-wing tab France-Soir already ran the pics. Now Charlie-Hebdo<\/em> [no website], a leftist satirical weekly with roots in the May 1968 student rebellion, runs the Danish portfolio and its own, new, cover illustration that you can see here<\/a>. Titled \u00c2\u201cMohammed overtaken by fundamentalists,\u00c2\u201d it shows the usual dark-and-swarthy Prophet with his head in his hands, exclaiming (using the rude word cons<\/em>): \u00c2\u201cIt\u00c2\u2019s hard being worshipped by idiots!\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n\n Meanwhile the editor of Jyllands-Posten<\/em> has decided that not content with offending Muslims, he also wants to offend Jews; and announces, in a particularly tasteful comparison, that accusing him of provocation is like accusing a woman of causing her own rape:<\/p>\n\n It\u00c2\u2019s still all about freedom of speech, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u00c2\u2019s easy to condemn the vandalism, the hatred and the violence. I am sure everyone here joins in this condemnation. But there\u00c2\u2019s still the uncomfortable fact that many European opinion-makers are reveling in provocation \u00c2\u2013 not only reprinting the cartoons … Continue reading The Danish paper responsible for the original caricatures of the prophet Muhammad is set to stoke the row further by running cartoons satirising the Holocaust.\n
\nFlemming Rose, the culture editor of Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, said today he was trying to get in touch with the Iranian paper, Hamshari, which plans to run an international competition seeking cartoons about the Holocaust.\n
\n“My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with the Iranian newspaper, and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them,” Mr Rose told CNN. \u00c2\u2026\n
\nMr Rose said he did not regret publishing the pictures.\n
\n“I think it is like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a short skirt at a discotheque [on] Friday night,” he said.\n
\n“If you’re wearing a short skirt that does not necessarily mean you invite everybody to have sex with you. If you make a cartoon, make fun of religion, make fun of religious figures, that does not imply that you humiliate or denigrate or marginalise a religion.”[Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n