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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (181164)	2/5/2006 3:30:56 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"Your rights under freedom of the press do not include the right not to be offended." Unfortunately you insist on an absolute right to freedom of speech. Such a right does not exist neither in Denmark nor in the US. "You already said that newspaper is not mainstream media so how does that apply?" Here is what I wrote: "Look to recent US history for examples of such actions, Time and Newsweek, have recently(in the past 10-15 years) apologized for similar publications. Back in the 60's cartoons depicting Blacks in a negative light were common, they don't exist in the main stream media today. By the way leading US and English political figures have deplored the publication of these cartoons." "What happened to the marketplace of ideas? In it, ideas such as those espoused by the KKK, the neoNazis, and the anti-Moslims are thrown out as absurd and not representational of the "enemy" they portray." Portraying Mohammed with a bomb in his turban with a burning fuse has little to do with the market place of ideas. More important is to understand why the editor (Rose) allowed the cartoons to be printed. His reason was to help integrate muslims into the Danish society by showing muslims that everything can be satirized. One doesn't help integrate anyone by satirizing their prophet.