According to the blog Rantings of a Sandmonkey the egyptian newspaper Al Fagr printed the cartoons in October 2005. Read that again – october 2005. (i’ve had no possibilities to fact check his claims yet). Update: Originally reported on freedom for egyptians tuesday.
Put’s the current violence towards countries where the drawings have been printed in perspective.
The world is so much more complex than any one of us can comprehend – and people who reduce it to freedom of expression for the sake of freedom of expression with no thoughts about the consequences of their actions or leadership in bridging divides instead of creating them – and people who reduce it to boycotts and violence towards the countries that happens to have newspapers that have printed them are in the same game. Jyllands-Posten you are the extremists, Extremists in the middle east you are Jyllands-Posten. The rest of us are just paying the price for their extremism.
Link courtesy of my friend Andreas who’s done the wise thing to spend time on reading blogs from western countries and the middle east to try and understand the issues.