An important moment for the freedom of speech in Europe, more specifically Denmark: Danish Court Rejects Cartoons Lawsuit.
The City Court in Aarhus rejected claims by seven Danish Muslim groups who said the 12 drawings printed in Jyllands-Posten were meant to insult the Prophet and make a mockery of Islam.
Islamic law forbids any depiction of the Prophet, even positive ones, to prevent idolatry.
“It cannot be ruled out that the drawings have offended some Muslims’ honor,” the court said. But it added there was no basis to assume that “the purpose of the drawings was to present opinions that can belittle Muslims.”
One example of the response from certain Muslim leaders:
In Syria, where a mob attacked and set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in February, Mohammed Habash, a legislator who heads the Islamic Studies Center in Damascus, said the ruling would “widen the gap between the Western and Islamic world.”
The spokesman for the plaintiffs already said that they will appeal.
Well, I would say to the plaintiffs: welcome to the West where freedom rules. If you don’t like it, if you’re afraid of being ‘hurt’, please go back to whatever place it is you come from.
Now we have settled that, lets move on to the next fase: getting rid of all the ridiculous rules limiting the freedom of speech.
(h/t ‘Interested’)
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