Cartoon Jihad, Round Two?
Charles Johnson
Wed Oct 4, 2006 at 9:20 am PDT • Views: 202
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The rage over the Mohammad cartoons has started to build up again after several Arabic media channels have discovered that Norwegian TV station, TV2, showed the offending cartoons.
Some Muslims in the middle east reacted with disgust when they learned that TV2 showed the cartoons in TV documentary, “Document 2”. Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya have several articles on Doc 2 and Magazinet editor Vebjørn K. Selbekk’s new book on their homepages, writes Nettavisen.
And it didn’t take long before people started reacting. Readers from around the globe were outraged when they learned that the TV station showed the cartoons of the prophet Mohammad.
According to Nettavisen, several Arabic media channels have a detailed description of the TV program and the response from Norwegian politicians. They also report that Selbekk didn’t apologize because he was wrong in printing the cartoons, but because of death threats and strong pressure from the Norwegian government to do so.
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