Ever since the start of 2006 my page copying the Jyllands Posten cartoons has become extremely popular and over the last couple of days it has become even more popular with visitors from all over the world. I decided to put a separate sitemeter on it so that I could see who was visiting it specifically.
This is the report on visits by country of origin from this morning. I'm a bit worried about "Satellte Provider" could that be Osama and co? but on the whole what I find most interesting is that the internet really has allowed the whole world to see these cartoons.
There has also been a lot of commentary on the various posts that link to the cartoons in particular this one and much of it is sensible although this comment isn't. Now I have to admit I can't read the arabic posts (primarily this comment page), so possibly they are insulting, but in the main I think that my Isamic visitors are showing greater maturity and sense than the "liberal" bloggers and commenters do. Although there is clearly an illogical argument going around that says "Muslims were most advanced 1000 years ago and therefore should not be insulted today" This is not a tenable argument. 100 years ago Britain ruled the world, today we are a 2nd rate power and thanks to Mr Bliar and his ZANU labour allies apparently losing the freedoms which we have developed and spread over the last 1000 years. Respect is not something that can be stored like gold, rather like flowers it has to be re-earned every year.
Two key comments that I think sum things up are the following:
STOP FOR A SECOND! Please read!
Why are you boycotting ALL danish products? You should boycot the MAGAZINE who printed these pictures! One magazine is not the same as everyone in denmark! Maiwani even suggested KILLING danish people because SOMEONE drew a picture. So now everyone who lives in denmark is guilty?? That is insanity! You are acting just like americans when french people protested against the war in iraq, americans hated everything from france, and everyone.
********** Why cannot the muslim world realise that one magazine does not represent the whole nation??? ********** Shabal | 29.Jan.06 - 2:02 |
i have just received a fifth email from so calld devout muslims telling me what to boycot dane products and send e-mails to danish foriegn ministry (they have it written in engish for people who can't write in english)
this is way too crazy!!! wakeup muslims
they have the emails in the title of making your prophet victorious!!! how will he be victorious by punishing people who did nothing to him just because a magazine published something, its not the fault of the danes you muslims are acting like children
if they didn't make all of this fuzz probably not so many people around the world would have seen the cartoons frantz | 29.Jan.06 - 11:31 |