Danish Cartoons Flashcards
What do Paul Marshall and Nina Shea argue are crimes in most Western Countries?
Discrimination and incitement to violence against Muslims and others
What do Paul Marshall and Nina Shea also argue about speech crimes?
Speech crimes must be something wider
When were the Danish Cartoons released?
2005 - 2006
What did the cartoons depict?
twelve caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad
Were they allowed to be reprinted?
No
What were the most controversial of the issues?
The image of a Prophet Muhammad carrying a lit hom on his head decorated with the Islamic face, his face was very stereotypical villain looking with heavy dark eyebrows and whiskers
Who censored the images in 2009?
Yale University Press
Where were they republished?
Egypt, Morocco and Indonesia
When did the issue arise?
After the Danish writer Kare Bluitgen complained about being unable to find an illustrator for his book
Why was it hard for him to find an illustrator?
No one dared to break the Islamic tradition of banning the portrayal of Muhammad’s image
What were the cartoonists asked to do?
Draw the prophet as they saw him
What were they aiming to reject?
They did this in an act of free speech in order to reject the pressures put on them by Muslim groups
What happened as a result of the cartoons?
Demonstrations were made
What demonstrations were made?
Riots, violence and boycotts with some 200 people dying
What did Egyptian demonstrators do?
They invoked the name of Osama Bin Laden and burned the Danish flag publicly
