Denmark: Book About Muhammed Cartoon Controversy To Go Ahead Despite Threats

From The New York Post and Alliance Defense Fund:


Danish book about Muhammad cartoon controversy to go ahead despite threats

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Last Updated: 9:37 AM, September 29, 2010



Posted: 8:20 AM, September 29, 2010



Comments: 5 More Print A book about the publication of cartoons in Denmark that angered Muslims by showing images of the Prophet Muhammad will be released despite recent terror threats, the publisher said Wednesday.



"The book will come out as planned," said Karsten Blauert, of Jyllands-Posten Editions.



The book, titled "The Tyranny of Silence," is due out Thursday, five years to the day after the cartoons first appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.



Although it will not reprint the drawings separately, its inside pages will feature "a picture of the front page of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper that had the Muhammad cartoons on it," Blauert said.



Asked about the possibility of a strong reaction to its publication, he said, "It's clear that a lot of things are happening, but everything is taking place as planned, and nothing will change that."



The book is by Flemming Rose, who was Jyllands-Posten's cultural editor when on Sept. 30, 2005, the newspaper ran its front-page spread featuring 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.



The drawings caused outrage across the Muslim world and led to violent protests against Denmark and Danish interests in 2006. Rose himself subsequently received numerous death threats.



In an August interview, Rose said he was not trying to be provocative with the new book, stressing that he simply wanted to "tell the story of the 12 drawings and put them into a context of [other] pictures considered offensive." It was important to write the book, he said, because "words should be answered with words. That's all we have in a democracy, and if we give that up, we will be locked in a tyranny of silence."



Norwegian police said Tuesday that an Iraqi Kurd being held in Norway on suspicion of planning bombings admitted that his target was the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.



The Danish intelligence service PET, confirming the Norwegian claim, said Denmark was a "priority terrorist target for Islamic extremists."







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