Boycott Denmark & Norway

[arabic187]

Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador to Denmark in protest at the Danish government's position on the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed.



"The (Saudi) government has recalled its ambassador in Copenhagen to express its regret and protest the position of the Danish government regarding a matter that has offended Islam and Muslims," a Saudi foreign ministry official said on Thursday.

Ambassador Mohammed al-Hujailan was recalled "for discussions", he said, requesting anonymity.

The cartoonist at the Danish Jyllands-Posten daily received death threats after it published 12 caricatures of the Muslim prophet in September.

The images were reprinted in a Norwegian magazine earlier this month sparking uproar in the Muslim world. Muslims believe that any images of Mohammed are blasphemous.

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen last month refused to agree to a meeting requested by 11 ambassadors of Muslim nations to discuss the controversy.

Rasmussen upheld freedom of expression as a fundamental human right but condemned any action "which tries to demonise certain groups due to their religious or ethnic background".

Arab foreign ministers in December lashed out at Copenhagen, expressing "surprise and indignation" at its reaction, while the International Union of Muslim Scholars threatened to urge a boycott of Danish and Norwegian products.

Boycott

Danish food giant Arla Foods meanwhile said on Thursday it was being targeted by a boycott in Saudi Arabia because of the publication of the objectionable cartoons.

Arla Foods is Europe's second-largest dairy company and the leading Danish exporter to Saudi Arabia, where it sells an estimated two billion kroner ($328 million) worth of products every year.

"More and more supermarkets are taking our products off their shelves and don't want fresh supplies because consumers no longer want to buy our brand," Arla Foods spokesman Louis Honore told AFP.

"The situation is very serious."

Arla Foods sales staff had been summoned by major Saudi customers who were threatening to stop buying Arla butter and cheeses unless the Danish government officially apologised for the cartoons, he said.


Source: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D0F9CAF4-A14D-4976-A017-2ABB3FD45AB9.htm

 

[Minardi]

Rasmussen upheld freedom of expression as a fundamental human right but condemned any action "which tries to demonise certain groups due to their religious or ethnic background".

And thats all he can really do....
80% Of the Danish population agrees with he Prime Minister

I cant see where the connection is:
A Danish newspaper publishes some pictures that upset muslims, and now they want the Prime Minister to Appoligise.... To me it really shows how far away some countries are from Democracy, and how the media is controlled by the governments in those contries.

If so, should the Prime Minister be responsible for every newpaper that posts offending stuff? i dont think so.

I made a thread some weeks ago about the same stuff.
http://www.streethop.com/forum/thread155288.html

 

[Jokerman]

I made a thread some weeks ago about the same stuff.
http://www.streethop.com/forum/thread155288.html

Boycott Minardi! Send death threats, everyone.

 

[Duke]

Stupendous.

 

[arabic187]

Transelation: We've stopped selling Danish products.

There are alot of shops and shopping complex are doing the same in the middle east. I guess the Danish economy is going to get effected.

 

[RFTP]

God damnit this was done already!!!!!

 

[Duke]

Transelation: We've stopped selling Danish products.

There are alot of shops and shopping complex are doing the same in the middle east. I guess the Danish economy is going to get effected.

Hardly.

 

[Glockmatic]

Oh no their economy will take a hit!! (what do they export anyway?)

 

[RFTP]

Oh no their economy will take a hit!! (what do they export anyway?)

immigrants?

 

[arabic187]

Source: english.aljazeera.net

Denmark's prime minister has said his government cannot act against satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed after Libya closed its embassy in Copenhagen amid growing Muslim anger over the dispute.



The newspaper Jyllands-Posten had not intended to insult Muslims when it published the drawings, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister said on Sunday, referring to an editorial on the paper's website in Danish and Arabic.

But while Rasmussen tried to assuage Muslim anger, Libya on Sunday closed its embassy in Denmark in protest at the drawings.

Earlier this week, Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador from Denmark and Saudi religious leaders have urged a boycott of Danish products.

"Because the Danish media had continued to show disrespect to the Prophet Mohammed and because the Danish authorities failed to take any responsible action on that, Libya decided to close its embassy in Copenhagen," the Libyan Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Libya also threatened to take unspecified "economic measures" against Denmark.

Blasphemous

Islam considers images of prophets disrespectful and caricatures of them blasphemous.

Since Jyllands-Posten published the drawings in September, the Danish government has repeatedly defended the right of free speech.

"The government can in no way could influence the media. And the Danish government and the Danish nation as such cannot be held responsible for what is published in independent media," Fogh Rasmussen said.
The newspaper has not apologised for publishing the drawings, which have caused widespread anger among Muslims around the world.

In a demonstration on the West Bank, members of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades threatened Danes in the area and told them to leave immediately, the Danish news agency Ritzau reported on Sunday.

The demonstrators burned the Danish flag and called on the Palestinian authorities to cut diplomatic ties with Denmark, Ritzau said.

"We are sorry the matter has reached these proportions and repeat that we had no intention to offend anyone, and that we as the rest of the Danish society respect freedom of religion," the newspaper's editor-in-chief Carsten Juste said in the editorial.

Karzai satisfied

Fogh Rasmussen was speaking at a joint news conference with Hamid Karzai, the visiting Afghan president, who said he was satisfied with the newspaper's explanation and the Danish government's view.

"Prime Minister Rasmussen explained Denmark's position on that (the drawings), which was very satisfactory to me as a Muslim," Karzai said.
The Danish government has broad "public backing for it stance on the cartoons. An opinion poll showed that 79% of Danes think Fogh Rasmussen should not issue an apology and 62% say the newspaper should not apologise.

Earlier on Sunday, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of Organisation of the Islamic Conference, said in Cairo the international body would "ask the UN general assembly to pass a resolution banning attacks on religious beliefs".

The deputy secretary-general of the Arab League, Ahmed Ben Helli, confirmed that contacts were under way for such a proposal to be made to the UN.

"Consultations are currently taking place at the highest level between Arab countries and the OIC to ask the UN to adopt a binding resolution banning contempt of religious beliefs and providing for sanctions to be imposed on contravening countries or institutions," he said.

Muslim wrath

Muslim wrath has spread rapidly in the Middle East, with Gulf retailers pulling Danish products off their shelves and protesters gathering outside Danish embassies.

Meanwhile, a Qatari cooperative society, Al Meera, has decided to boycott Danish and Norwegian products.

The move follows similar action taken by other Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in protest at the cartoons.

On the other hand, EU trade chief Peter Mandelson met a Saudi minister at a meeting in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos on Sunday and "urged the minister to convey the seriousness of this issue to his government", his spokesman said.

"Any boycott of Danish goods would be seen as a boycott of European goods," said spokesman Peter Power.

Saudi Arabia has denounced the cartoons and has recalled its ambassador from Denmark for consultations.

Danish-based food company Arla said on Friday it would advertise in Saudi newspapers to distance itself from the row after facing a consumer boycott there.

Mette Schouby, a spokeswoman, said: "The advertisements will be published in leading national newspapers."

Saudi Arabia accounts for two-thirds of Arla's sales in the Middle East that total $396 million.

Kuwaiti action

On Saturday, Kuwait's state-supported supermarkets announced a boycott of Danish products, and the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry called in a regional Danish ambassador to protest against the caricatures while hundreds of Kuwaitis protested outside the Danish consulate.

Members of parliament in Bahrain are also calling for a boycott of Danish and Norwegian products.

Danish dairy products were set ablaze on Friday in Bahrain and the anger over the caricatures was also evident in the numerous mobile text messages urging the boycott, according to regional newspapers.

MP Shaikh Mohammed Khalid Mohammed urged people to stop buying Danish and Norwegian products until both countries apologise.

"So what if businesses in Bahrain will be affected, Islam is far more important than anything," he is quoted as saying.

In the emirate of Dubai, a scholar said all Muslim governments should recall their ambassadors from Denmark and boycott its products.

Danish refusal

"Those are provocative cartoons that come from sick-minded and irresponsible people,' said the scholar, Ahmad Abd al-Aziz al-Haddad, quoted in the Gulf News.

Syria on Sunday also joined the chorus of condemnation.

"Syria strongly condemns this insult against the supreme token of the Arab and Islamic nations," the Syrian news agency Sana quoted an unidentified Foreign Ministry official as saying.

The official said the Danish government should punish the offenders.

 

[Duke]

Oh no their economy will take a hit!! (what do they export anyway?)

Food, energy.


It's not like they do much business with the Arab world anyway. And i doubt every Arab will now start looking at food labels to make sure hs butter doesnt come from evil, racist Denmark.

 

[arabic187]

Food, energy.


It's not like they do much business with the Arab world anyway. And i doubt every Arab will now start looking at food labels to make sure hs butter doesnt come from evil, racist Denmark.

If 1.3 Billion Muslims (not only Arabs) Boycotted Norway and Denmark not only by stop buying the products but by stop all business with the 2 countries. That will make a big deffrence.

 

[Glockmatic]

It'd be more produce for India and China i would think, adding 2+ billion customers

 

[TecK NeeX]

The newspaper Jyllands-Posten had not intended to insult Muslims when it published the drawings

Really, i can't believe I'm reading this. the people behind Jyllands would make great blueprints for cloning morons

Fuck Denmark, fuck Norway, the citizens of both countries can suck my big fat brown Middle Eastern dick, calling them nazis, white supremacist racist motherfuckers would be an insult to nazis and supremacists and even known racists. Every danish and norwegian including women and children deserve no less than a bullet in between their eyes, and if they're lucky enough their bodies should be fed to the pigs.










































BREAKING NEWS!

The newspaper Teck NeeX-Posten had not intended to insult the people of Denmark and Norway when he published the post in TB

 

[arabic187]

Really, i can't believe I'm reading this. the people behind Jyllands would make great blueprints for cloning morons

Fuck Denmark, fuck Norway, the citizens of both countries can suck my big fat brown Middle Eastern dick, calling them nazis, white supremacist racist motherfuckers would be an insult to nazis and supremacists and even known racists. Every danish and norwegian including women and children deserve no less than a bullet in between their eyes, and if they're lucky enough their bodies should be fed to the pigs.










































BREAKING NEWS!

The newspaper Teck NeeX-Posten had not intended to insult the people of Denmark and Norway when he published the post in TB

Why are you such an asshole? :fury:

ooppss i forgot it's called freedom of speech. My bad :laugh:

 

[Shahin]

The boycott will hurt everybody but Jyllands-posten. Pretty irrational I think.

 

[RFTP]

Well the danes are a pretty irrational bunch of spieces so that adds up.

 

[Sebastian]

Really, i can't believe I'm reading this. the people behind Jyllands would make great blueprints for cloning morons

Fuck Denmark, fuck Norway, the citizens of both countries can suck my big fat brown Middle Eastern dick, calling them nazis, white supremacist racist motherfuckers would be an insult to nazis and supremacists and even known racists. Every danish and norwegian including women and children deserve no less than a bullet in between their eyes, and if they're lucky enough their bodies should be fed to the pigs.

BREAKING NEWS!

The newspaper Teck NeeX-Posten had not intended to insult the people of Denmark and Norway when he published the post in TB

it would have been better you never came back..

 

[Minardi]

Meanwhile....

Saudi Arabia has pulled thier ambassador out of the country because of the cartoons. (This is normally seen as a war declaration)
Palestinians burning the Danish flag, saying they despise the Danish "monster" (I wonder what kind of stories they have been told )
3 Red Cross workers evakuated from their work because of being Danes.

How intelligent... Some people need to realise we are not livin in the 1450's

Im afraid this will hit the muslim people in my country even more because the tolerence of the Danes here is very low, Sms messages has been sent out in large amounts telling to boycut muslim shops, taxi's, restaurants etc.

 

[Minardi]

If 1.3 Billion Muslims (not only Arabs) Boycotted Norway and Denmark not only by stop buying the products but by stop all business with the 2 countries. That will make a big deffrence.

This wont affect Denmark much, believe me...

There are some debate going on now, about the welfare Denmark spends on some of these muslim countries. They may stop giving money out to the countries boycutting us, so in the long run these countries will suffer more.