10 January 2006 Blog Home : January 2006 : Permalink
Danish Muslim organisations are planning to take the daily Jyllands-Posten to the European Court of Human Rights over controversial cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed.
The decision was announced Monday (9 January) by Kasem Ahmad, leader of Danish Islamic religious body Islamsk Trossamfund, uniting various Muslim organisations, following an announcement that a Danish local attorney general had rejected their case.
This was after, as noted, sanity seemed to breaking out with the Danish government and legal establishment standing firm and the "international community" making sympathetic noises but not exactly springing to action and apparently being willing to accept the Danish prime-minister's duck billed platitudes that "we should not resort to the freedom of speech as a way of increasing social hatred and fragmentation."Hadi Kahn, chairman of the Organization of Pakistani Students in Denmark (OPSA), stressed that the group travelling to the Muslim countries does not represent all Muslims in Denmark.
But while not completely isolated this rare outbreak of sanity on the Muslim side is not the usual reaction with most Muslims doing their best to prove that they really do act like spoiled eight-year old brats:
Most recently the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) called upon its 51 member states to boycott Denmark unless the Danish government apologizes for the cartoons.
Of course quite what the ISESCO does when it isn't getting its knickers in a twist about Danish cartoons is unclear. The Islamic world has had a miserable record with regard to education, science and culture for the last 500 years.