French approve ban on burqas...

So your only defense of the action is on pragmatic grounds? I'll take that as a victory thank you.

 

As usual Henry, you got it mostly wrong.

 

First, I find this caricature above quite on the dot, despite the jews indeed acting out incorrectly. That caricature says what pôlitically correct people want to avoid saying.

 

These Danish caricatures (they're not cartoons) were asked by some rightist and religious medium-circulation chirstian newspaper to illustrate satyrically  an article about religious intolerance. Sure some were limit-provoking, but mainly thought-provoking, and deep down most of them hit it on the button (the truith hurts). The detractors of these drawings  went to court and lost. That's what the Danish courts decided, even in an appeal against the original decision. This would've been the end of the story, because this hadn't even made any noise outside Denmark.  If it wasn't for these fanatics detractors (in other words activists and hatemongers) wanting right beyond tolerable boundaries it is prtecisely these detractors that toured the mis-east to show these caricatures and set the places on fire.

 

 

The provocation part came from Norway , when these drawings were published again in some religious-controlled publications. THIS time, it was on provocation grounds.

 

Remember the Norwegian and Danish embassies were also attacked by mostly arseholes who never even saw these caricatures (>>> there were fanatics controlling the mobs), but somehow and strangely enough, it is mostly Denmark's embassies that burned, despite the pure provocation came from Norway.

 

So if I were the Muslims, instead of burning embassies, I'd have shut my mouth and rather be thought a tolerant fool, than go on a rampage and prove these caricatures right.

 

As far as I am concerned, these activists living in Denmark should've been stripped of their Danish nationality by doing anti-Danish activities (this is close to terrorism) . If you can't accept the justice decisions of your country and go around setting fire against its institutions(embassies are institution of the state), you should at least leave the country and give up its nationality. Nothing stops these extremists to go live in countries that accept these religious precepts.

 

 

These caricatures provoked quite a stink on this forum a few years back. We even lost an Admin ( mu buddy Martin, living in Malaysia), right after that incident, although it was more on security reasons, rather than on moral grounds