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Danish Cartoon Crisis

Government E-1182 Jocelyne Cesari. Danish Cartoon Crisis. Cartoon Crisis. Flemming Rose, (Culture Editor of Jyllands-Posten ). TIMELINE September 30, 2005: Cartoons published. October 12, 2005: Hlayhel suggests the Danish are insulting to Muslims, but sensitive to Jews.

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Danish Cartoon Crisis

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  1. Government E-1182 JocelyneCesari Danish Cartoon Crisis

  2. Cartoon Crisis Flemming Rose, (Culture Editor of Jyllands-Posten) TIMELINE • September 30, 2005: Cartoons published. • October 12, 2005: Hlayhel suggests the Danish are insulting to Muslims, but sensitive to Jews. • October 14, 2005: Demonstration at City hall Plaza in Copenhagen. • October 19, 2005 Petition from ambassadors in Muslim countries to meet with Prime Minister Rasmussen. • December 3, 2005: First delegation in Cairo representing a coalition of mosques. • End of December: Second delegation, in Beirut. • Late January: Protests and demonstrations in Denmark. • February 2006: DemokratiskeMuslimer was formed by NaserKhader. • March 2006: French television crew records the activist imam Akkari potentially threatening Khader. NaserKhader Prime Minister Rasmussen Ahmed Akkari Ahmed Abu Laban

  3. Liberal Democracy Principles • Principle of respectful non identification • Equality between religions • Tension between freedom of religion and Separation of Church and State • Leading to illiberal concept of secularism: Freedom from Religion • Recent evolution of laicite in France, 1989, 2004, 2010

  4. European Secularism in a Comparative Perspective • Difference of meanings of Neutrality and Public Space, compared to the US • Is the European and American divide overrated? • Difference with Muslim countries

  5. International Consequences MAIN POINTS TIMELINE January 29, 2006: Clerics from the Muslim Brotherhood condemn the cartoons. Early February 2006: Al Qaradawi gives a sermon on Qatar TV, urging Muslims to stage a "day of rage." February 2006: Wave of international protests. February 5: Lebanese protest, injuring 50 and killing 1. February 14-18: Pakistani protest, injuring at least 140 and killing 5. February 17: Protests in Lybya injure over 50 and kill 11. February 18-24: Protests in Nigeria kill at least 130 and injure over 450. February 2006: Qureshi, a cleric from Peshawar, offers a $25,000 bounty for killing "the cartoonist." • Religion on the International Agenda • How and why the cartoons crisis became global Fire burning in the Danish Embassy in Damascus in protest.

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