Danish Islamists Appeal to UN

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Islamist front groups in Denmark, having failed to get the Danish government to punish Jyllands-Posten newspaper for publishing the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy, are now calling out the big guns—the United Nations Human Rights Commission: Danish Muslims sue over Muhammad cartoons. (Hat tip: Allah.)

Danish Muslim groups are to report Denmark to the UN Commissioner on Human Rights for failing to prosecute the newspaper that first published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

The 27 Muslim groups also plan�to sue the newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, for defamation in a Danish court, according to their�lawyer, Michael Christiani Havemann.

“Denmark is obliged through the UN to secure the civil rights of its citizens,” Havemann said by telephone. “The national prosecutor won’t pursue the case and, therefore, acts as a barrier to justice to the complainants.”

Henning Fode, Denmark’s director of public prosecutions, announced on Wednesday that he would not charge Jyllands-Posten, ruling that the drawings it published last September did not violate Denmark’s laws against blasphemy and racist speech.

Mr Fode said that the cartoons could be considered an affront to the Prophet, but did not break Danish law. The prosecutor’s decision prompted the Foreign Ministry to upgrade its travel warnings for Danes traveling in Muslim countries from Algeria to Malaysia

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