Danish Imams!

On October 19th, 2005, ambassadors from Islamic countries demanded a meeting with the Danish Prime Minister, wanting his government to prosecute the newspaper that published the cartoons of Mohammad. The PM gave them the brush-off, reminding them that his government could not interfere with the right to free speech.

It was then that a group of conservative Danish imams, Islamisk Trossamfund, took matters into its own hands, setting about on a tour of Saudi Arabia and Egypt with the inflammatory cartoons, plus three other mysteriously unattributed drawings. From somewhere unknown Islamisk Trossamfund obtained drawings “showing Muhammad with the face of a pig; a dog sodomising a praying Muslim; and Muhammad as a paedophile.” The creator of the Danish cartoons complains, “This was pure disinformation. We never published them.”

But the devious campaign of the Islamisk Trossamfund imams succeeded. The easily led Arab street erupted in rioting and protests, burning European embassies, and calling for death to all who disrespect Islam. Last week, Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador from Denmark and Libya shut its embassy.

According to “Guardian Unlimited”, the journalists at Jyllands-Posten, where the cartoons were originally published were asked about regrets for their actions. “We apologised for hurting the feelings of a lot of Muslims in this. But we don’t apologise for printing the cartoons.”

Michelle Malkin is on the story with “The Lies of the Danish Imams.”