# We knew it was coming:$1 mill. bounty on danish cartoonist.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 17, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020 "2006-02-17T22:18:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020/21 "2006-02-18T11:33:03Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > Denmark collected quite a bit of aid for the Pakistani earthquake, I think it was the second or third largest donator nation compared to population - but now the Danish aid workers have been forced to leave Pakistan on danger of their lives. Apparently if you look European people will stop you in the street and ask if you’re Danish. So now the aid for Pakistan is being redirected to Africa. Well all for the good, if they believe they’re better off without Danish aid, I guess there are many more deserving places on Earth. I think if the earthquake was to take place today, disaster organisations would have a very hard time getting Danes to pony up. > > Same thing is also happening in Palestine, where Danish (and Norwegian) aid workers have been forced out. Even volunteres from organisations which are there to report and document alleged Israeli crimes. Here from the news, gotta love irony: > > - duh. Sometimes reality knocks so loudly on the door it’s impossible to ignore it. a somewhat parallel if differently inspired dissonance, the snatching of the four peace volunteers in Iraq (I guess it’s about 5 weeks or more now–they seem really to have been forgotten) in the face of a truly impressive outpouring from the palestinians they had just finished helping on the way to their abduction in Iraq (an “appointment in samarra”?) You’ld think that the “forward-looking terrorist” would have room to modify his target when it turned out actually to be a friend of the oppressed, but oh no, no such luck. ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020/22 "2006-02-18T11:38:29Z")
it is somewhat perplexing from an american perspective that the Danes should come in for this kind of shit–I realize that their gesture of solidarity in WWII with the Jews may not be the precise currency acceptable to angry muslims as proof of a commitment to fight discrimination, but it kind of stands out from, say, the brave French behavior in similar straits… ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020/23 "2006-02-18T12:27:38Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#): > > it is somewhat perplexing from an american perspective that the Danes should come in for this kind of shit–I realize that their gesture of solidarity in WWII with the Jews may not be the precise currency acceptable to angry muslims as proof of a commitment to fight discrimination, but it kind of stands out from, say, the brave French behavior in similar straits… Did I miss the French cartoons? While it might be hilarious to constantly ridicule the French (only it isn’t) they have nothing to do with why the Danes fucked off SOME Muslims. It is perplexing to see the outrage Danes are recieving though, cartoons should be less less convincing then photos. ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020/24 "2006-02-18T12:46:35Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Did I miss the French cartoons? > > While it might be hilarious to constantly ridicule the French (only it isn’t) they have nothing to do with why the Danes fucked off SOME Muslims. > > It is perplexing to see the outrage Danes are recieving though, cartoons should be less less convincing then photos. I was referencing the national Danish wearing of the yellow mogen david thus preventing persecution of jewish Danes vs. vichy and the quiet rendition (a word to conjure with) of the jewish French to the gestapo ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020/25 "2006-02-18T14:33:51Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Did I miss the French cartoons? > > While it might be hilarious to constantly ridicule the French (only it isn’t) they have nothing to do with why the Danes fucked off SOME Muslims. > > It is perplexing to see the outrage Danes are recieving though, cartoons should be less less convincing then photos. Could it be that cartoons are so effective because many Muslims are illterate and can grasp their nature readily? ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020/26 "2006-02-18T15:50:24Z")
[ > [@Maulana Yousef Qureshi](#): > > If the West can place a bounty on Osama bin Laden and Zawahri we can also announce rewards for killing the man who has caused this sacrilege of the holy Prophet. ]([http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/story\_page/0,5936,18187655%5E1702,00.html](http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18187655%255E1702,00.html)) Apparently to some the drawing of cartoons does in fact equal flying planes into buildings. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020/27 "2006-02-18T17:34:53Z")
Can I just say that I want this [Tshirt?](http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?productid=586) ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020/28 "2006-02-18T22:12:05Z")
hehehehehe **lissener** 🙂 [Safer than the Italian one, huh.](http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-02-18T195732Z_01_L18607690_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CARTOONS.xml&archived=False) ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020/29 "2006-02-18T23:16:20Z")
next time there’s an earthquake or tsunami in some muslim country, I won’t contribute a dime. I gave (generously I might add) to the tsunami relief. Maybe if the world acted this way, these idiots would gain a little sense. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020/30 "2006-02-18T23:32:30Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > next time there’s an earthquake or tsunami in some muslim country, I won’t contribute a dime. I gave (generously I might add) to the tsunami relief. Maybe if the world acted this way, these idiots would gain a little sense. :smack: certainly an understandable position, altho’ I really yearn to throw down on Qureshi himself. The trouble with generalized disadvantagement is that it’s generalized. One of the salient characteristics of the regimes under which the moronic venting is taking place is that they are to a greater or lesser degree insulated from the consequences of their policy of inflaming mobs. I’m gonna vote for the unicef bags and the countersnuff (yes, I know, an eye for an eye and soon we’re all blind). At least it would send a message (like if in twenty four hours the snuff qureshi thermometer topped ten million, at least he’d know how pissed we are…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-knew-it-was-coming-1-mill-bounty-on-danish-cartoonist/345020.md?page=1)