"Seraphim" wrote:

As a result of muslims all over the world boycotting anything Dainish, Denmarks president has had to re-classify the country as a third world country.

Was that message not a spoof?

"You" wrote:

"Seraphim" wrote:

As a result of muslims all over the world boycotting anything Dainish, Denmarks president has had to re-classify the country as a third world country.

Was that message not a spoof?

Pick which ever explanation you're comfortable with.

Couldn't care less really... but the latter parts of what was quoted by Ya'qub defo sounded like some attempt at humour...

I wasn't aware he had posted anything on this thread.

Not "on this thread" but on another topic just a few hours before I bumped this one:

"[url=http://www.therevival.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=120167 wrote:

Ya'qub[/url]"]This reminds me of when all the Muslims boycotted Danish produce after the cartoon furore. Considering Denmark's primary exports are bacon, beer and porn I'm not sure how much this effected them. Here's a news story to refresh everyone's memory:

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[size=18]Denmark Claims Third World Status[/size]

The country of Denmark has filed for Third World Status due to the recent boycott of Denmark products by the Muslim world. Although most nations don’t use the first, second, third world classifications anymore, Denmark’s Prime Minister Anders Fug Rastamuffin wishes to bring the label back due to Denmark’s crippled economy.

“Gosh golly, I didn’t know the cartoons would peev the Muslims off this much,” said the Danish Prime Minister, “it was almost as if the entire Muslim world put away all their differences overnight and united in the wake of these cartoons.”

Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper featured several offensive cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) last September which has angered Muslims not only in Denmark, but around the world. In retaliation, Muslims boycotted Danish goods, crippling the Danish economy to show displeasure. Salman Hassan, leader and main organizer of the Danish Boycott Movement, is one of the most vocal Muslims when it came to the massive boycott. “I’ve been boycotting any product that supports Israel so I have experience in stuff like this” he said.

It was Mr.Hassan who compiled the list of Danish companies and distributed the “Don’t support these Danish companies” flyers around the internet and various mosques. Many were quick to point that some companies on his boycott list weren’t even Danish like Kinder, makers of the infamous chocolate egg with a toy inside. “Oh I just put Kinder on because I hate the fact that I keep getting stupid jigsaw puzzles instead of those cool mini-cars…” explained Hassan, age 45.

Mr. Hassan’s son, Kamran (8 ), destroyed his entire Lego collection. “I saw my dad’s boycott list and Lego was there so I did what any Muslim would do… I threw all my Lego pieces into the toilet and flushed them. Take that Denmark!”

Jafar Syed, another berated Muslim over the cartoons, took the boycott one step further. He decided to include American goods in his list as well. “Prophet Isa (AS) has been portrayed very negatively in the American media too … he’s our Prophet as well and I think fair is fair by boycotting American goods as well”. Syed has not bought anything since he announced the American goods boycott. It is reported that he eats grass to sustain himself.

Denmark however cannot sustain itself by eating grass. The country is so poor, that neighbouring countries use Danish people for cheap labour. The entire economy has collapsed since the boycott and thousands of workers are out of work. Jyllands-Posten however, still operates… and still posts crap while excercising their right of freedom of expression.

Are you trying to play word games?

It smy fault for not quoting my source of the news story:

maniacmuslim.com

ok, I apologise for taking it as a spoof.

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[size=18]Danish Muhammad cartoon reprinted[/size]

Danish newspapers have reprinted one of several caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad which sparked violent protests across the Muslim world two years ago.

They say they wanted to show their commitment to freedom of speech after an alleged plot to kill one of the cartoonists behind the drawings.

Three suspects were held in Denmark on Tuesday "to prevent a murder linked to terrorism", officials said.

The cartoons were originally published by Jyllands-Posten in September 2005.

Danish embassies were attacked around the world and dozens died in riots that followed.

[b]'Defiant'[/b]

Jyllands-Posten and many other major newspapers - including Politiken and Berlingske Tidende - reprinted the caricature in their Wednesday editions.

The cartoon depicts Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.

The editors say no-one should feel their life is threatened because of a drawing.

"We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper will always defend," Berlingske Tidende said.

The cartoon was also broadcast on national television, and even newspapers that were originally against the publication of the caricatures are now backing the campaign to defend freedom of speech, the BBC's Thomas Buch-Andersen in Copenhagen says.

One Danish tabloid published all 12 drawings, the Associated Press news agency reported.

[b]'Deeply shaken'[/b]

On Tuesday, the head of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (Pet), Jakob Sharf, said its operatives had carried out pre-dawn raids in the Aarhus region.

The three suspects - two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin - had been detained "after lengthy surveillance", he added.

The Danish citizen will be released pending further investigation, while the Tunisians will be held until they are expelled from the country.

The Pet did not identify the target of the alleged plot, but the online edition of Jyllands-Posten said its cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, was the focus.

The newspaper, based in Aarhus, said Mr Westergaard, 73, and his 66-year-old wife, Gitte, had been under police protection for the past three months.

In a statement on Jyllands-Posten's website, Mr Westergaard said: "Of course I fear for my life when the police intelligence service say that some people have concrete plans to kill me.

[b]"But I have turned fear into anger and resentment."[/b]

The editor of Jyllands-Posten, Carsten Juste, said he and his staff had been "deeply shaken" by the news.

"We'd become more or less used to death threats and bomb threats since the cartoons, but it's the first time that we've heard about actual murder plans - that's new," he said.

[b]Muslim anger[/b]

The BBC's Thomas Buch-Andersen in Copenhagen says the arrests have stunned people in Denmark, where the furore over the cartoons was thought to have passed.

Mr Westergaard was one of 12 artists behind the drawings but he was responsible for what was considered the most controversial of the pictures.

The cartoons were later reprinted by more than 50 newspapers, triggering a wave of protests in parts of the Muslim world.

The demonstrations culminated a year ago with the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in Damascus and Beirut and dozens of deaths in Nigeria, Libya and Pakistan.

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7242258.stm]BBC News[/url]

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[size=18]Danish Muslims in cartoon protest[/size]

Hundreds of Danish Muslims have been demonstrating in Copenhagen against the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad they consider offensive.

The cartoon depicts the Prophet with a bomb in his turban.

All major Danish newspapers decided to republish it after Danish intelligence said it had uncovered a plot to kill one of the cartoonists.

Protestors marched in the capital's streets shouting "God is Great!" and "Freedom of speech is like a plague!".

Many carried the black and white flags of Hizb ut-Tahrir - the radical Islamic party that calls for the creation of a caliphate.

Earlier, at Friday prayers, Danish Muslims from many backgrounds expressed frustration that one of the cartoons they find so offensive could have been printed again.

[b]Weary resignation[/b]

Many said they simply could not understand the motive unless it was hatred for Islam.

But the overwhelming mood was not so much anger but weary resignation; a sense that they have been through this crisis once before and nothing has been learnt.

Some Danish Muslims said they felt the problem was not the Danish people who were, if not well informed about Islam, at least generally liberal.

Instead, they pointed the finger of blame at the Danish media, saying it had stirred controversy instead of trying to help mend community relations.

On Tuesday, Denmark's Security and Intelligence Service said it had uncovered a plot by three Muslims in Denmark to kill one of the cartoonists.

Two of the men, who are not Danish citizens, are due to be expelled to Tunisia rather than put on trial.

Many Danish Muslims criticised this decision, saying it would be better to examine the evidence and punish the men if they were really guilty.

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7247817.stm]BBC News[/url]