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Politics : The Truth About Islam
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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (10372)10/5/2007 6:32:26 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (2) of 20106
 
Muslims never saw Mohammed cartoons
The Copenhagen Post ^ | 10/05/2007

cphpost.dk

A new documentary shows that several of the instigators behind the violent Mohammed cartoon demonstrations never even saw the drawings

In a new documentary film, the violent protests in the Middle East over the infamous Mohammed cartoons in 2005 are proven to have been instigated by Islamic leaders who never actually saw the drawings themselves.

Danish director Karsten Kjær travelled throughout the Middle East to investigate who and what was responsible for the wave of violence released from the cartoons for his documentary ‘Those Damned Drawings’ (‘De Forbandede Tegninger’). He said the primary theme of the film is freedom of expression and its boundaries.

‘I’ve sought to be objective about the crisis’ factual events,’ Kjær told public broadcaster DR. ‘But it is also a very personal film that portrays my travels around the Middle East and my own impression of both the causes and consequences of the conflict brought about by the 12 drawings.

The film suggests the crisis began full-force when the man many consider to be Islam’s most powerful figure, Sheik Yussuf Al-Qaradawi, declared 3 February 2006 as ‘Anger Day’ on his TV programme. A wave of violent protests across the globe unleashing followed in the wake of that transmission.

In the documentary, Kjær shows the Mohammed drawings to Al-Qaradawi, who views them for the first time.

Kjær also shows the cartoons to Ali Bakhsi, the Iranian who spearheaded demonstrations in Tehran that led to the burning of the Danish embassy there. Bakhsi laughingly says the drawings look nothing like Mohammed but rather like an Indian Sikh.

The key figure in the Mohammed cartoon affair, Jyllands-Posten newspaper’s culture editor, Flemming Rose, is also interviewed in the documentary. He explains his thinking at the time when he made the groundbreaking decision to run the drawings in the paper.

The film premiers Sunday evening at 22:05 on DR1.
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