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To: steve harris who wrote (272230)	2/5/2006 8:34:59 PM
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Danes Unrepentant Over Muhammad Cartoons An editor with the Danish newspaper that ran cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad said the resultant furor was "worth it." Joern Mikkelsen, political editor of the conservative paper Jyllands-Posten, said the still-raging debate over who is or isn't entitled to criticize a religion only served to further legitimize the paper's decision to run the cartoons. The cartoons, first published four months ago in Denmark, included one showing Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a lit fuse. Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the prophet, favorable or otherwise. The republication of the cartoons in a Norwegian publication on January 10 touched off a storm of protest in the Islamic world. Danish products were boycotted in Arab countries and protesters burned the Danish flag. Jyllands-Posten's office in Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city, received bomb threats and its employees were flooded with death threats by phone and mail. But when the German magazine Der Spiegel asked Mikkelsen if publishing the cartoons was worth the controversy, he replied: "Yes, it was worth it." Tage Clausen, a spokesman for the paper, said it did not intend to anger Muslims by running the cartoons. "Instead we wanted to show how deeply entrenched self-censorship has already become." Other Danes who spoke with Der Spiegel in Aarhus supported the publication of the cartoons. "I can't imagine living in a country where I am no longer allowed to voice my free opinion," said Eminie Ehlers. Tonni Soerensen, pointing out that Denmark has welcomed many Muslims, said: "The Muslim reaction was exaggerated in the extreme. When these imams go around telling everybody how bad we are, it's like a stab in the back." And Anne Grethe declared: "If [Muslim immigrants] don't agree with freedom of the press, then they should go back home."