# Danish Newspapers Reprint Cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 14, 2008, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575 "2008-02-14T07:02:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575/1 "2008-02-14T07:02:55Z")
Have any Dopers heard anything about the Danish newspapers reprinting the Prophet Muhammad cartoon again??? Is this going to set things off again amongst the world’s Muslims?? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575/2 "2008-02-14T07:15:28Z")
You say “set things off” as though the last time was a spontaneous reaction. It was actually carefully orchestrated and provoked by various Islamic leaders, who could raise an angry mob about such trivialities about Achmed’s Restaurant’s soup of the day choice if they wanted. If more violence occurs, it won’t be because of the cartoons, but whether or not these leaders choose to agitate over them. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575/3 "2008-02-14T09:41:15Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] You say “set things off” as though the last time was a spontaneous reaction. It was actually carefully orchestrated and provoked by various Islamic leaders, who could raise an angry mob about such trivialities about Achmed’s Restaurant’s soup of the day choice if they wanted. If more violence occurs, it won’t be because of the cartoons, but whether or not these leaders choose to agitate over them. [/QUOTE] They were reprinted because arrests were made concerning a terrorist plot against the cartoonist. Heard on the radio that one of the three arrested has been released and two deported. Sounds to me like there wasn’t a plot at all. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575/4 "2008-02-14T16:28:00Z")
I didn’t say “plot”. ---
**Author:** ![Tikster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@Tikster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikster)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575/5 "2008-02-14T17:35:43Z")
[QUOTE=tagos] They were reprinted because arrests were made concerning a terrorist plot against the cartoonist. Heard on the radio that one of the three arrested has been released and two deported. Sounds to me like there wasn’t a plot at all. [/QUOTE] It’s correct: the cartoons were reprinted because the police made arrests for planning to murder the cartoonist. The reprint is a reaction to that. Of course there’s been a violent reaction - and I’m not sure it was the visest course of action - but we cannot sit by and let things get that far out of hand. my $0.02 Tikster ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575/6 "2008-02-14T20:46:02Z")
They should print it every day until the muslims tire of it. ---
**Author:** ![intention](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e95f7d/32.png) [@intention](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/intention)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575/7 "2008-02-14T22:46:16Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] They should print it every day until the muslims tire of it. [/QUOTE] Well, [here’s](http://homepage.mac.com/williseschenbach/.Public/Interview_With_The_Prophet.pdf) my contribution to that process … ---
**Author:** ![Wrylie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wrylie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrylie)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575/8 "2008-02-15T01:30:23Z")
I think it’s great they had the courage not to cave in to superstition. What’s next? Refusing to print photos of women without scarves on their heads? That’s forbidden in some countries, I think. Like Afghanistan under the Taliban. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575/9 "2008-02-15T04:53:03Z")
[QUOTE=Wrylie] I think it’s great they had the courage not to cave in to superstition. What’s next? Refusing to print photos of women without scarves on their heads? That’s forbidden in some countries, I think. Like Afghanistan under the Taliban. [/QUOTE] Watch your footing. That slope you’re on is quite slippery. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-newspapers-reprint-cartoon/437575/10 "2008-02-15T11:26:10Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] I didn’t say “plot”. [/QUOTE] No - the Danish police did.