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Originally Posted by Locobot
I have respect for Condoleeza Rice for coming out and condemning middle-east leaders who are using this controversy to incite hatred and violence.
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Which is strange, seeing as that is what the cartoons themselves have done.
There are a number of other issues here that need to be considered:
1. Why were there no protests when the cartoons were originally published in September 2005? Why did things only heat up once the cartoons were republished in January 2006? Why were they republished?
2. Why did the same newspaper refuse to publish cartoons satirising Jesus in 2003? What happened to 'freedom of speech' then?
3. Why has the editor of Jyllands-Posten who originally published the cartoons been ordered on a 'leave of absence' after saying he would publish the Iranian cartoons satirising the Holocaust?