{"id":64,"date":"2006-02-07T17:59:26","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T22:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-02-07T17:59:26","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T22:59:26","slug":"the-muslim-cartoon-war-twisted-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/02\/07\/the-muslim-cartoon-war-twisted-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"The &ldquo;Muslim Cartoon War&rdquo; &ndash; Twisted thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<b>Twisted # 1<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA Danish newspaper publishes a cartoon which, among other things, portrays Muhammed with a bomb in his turban, hinting that Muslims are prone to violence.<br \/>\nMuslims duly set fire to \/ threaten \/ bomb the newspaper&rsquo;s headquarters as well as any other Danish building that they happen to be close to.\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n<b>Twisted # 2<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDanish newspaper exercises its right to free speech by publishing cartoons.<br \/>\nMuslims in Denmark and other European countries excercise <b>their<\/b> right to free speech by protesting against the newspaper&rsquo;s right to free speech.\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n<b>Twisted # 3<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMuslims immigrate to Europe, presumably because they choose to do so, presumably because they expect a better here.<br \/>\nThey then protest against the very foundations that make this society better than what they left.\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\nDo these people think at all?<br \/>\nAnd what I really wonder is, how many of them know that they are protesting against cartoons &ndash; how many are out there just because their neighbour is? And how many have actually seen the thing they are protesting against?<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/face-of-muhammed.blogspot.com\/\">The cartoons are available here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twisted # 1 A Danish newspaper publishes a cartoon which, among other things, portrays Muhammed with a bomb in his turban, hinting that Muslims are prone to violence. Muslims duly set fire to \/ threaten \/ bomb the newspaper&rsquo;s headquarters as well as any other Danish building that they happen to be close to. Twisted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}