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There ARE some muslims in Denmark who are standing up against this bullshit and criticizing the asshole muslim clercis in Denmark who started this entire mess with their lies, and those "good" muslims should get credit, and I woudl go out of my way to patronize their businesses. I don't want to paint all of them with the same broad brush)
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Naser Khader.
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Naser Khader is a Danish muslim, and member of Parliament. Here's an excerpt from one of this statements on the cartoon issue - specifically speaking to demands from countries like Saudi Arabia that Denmark should apologize:
"If anyone should apologise it is Saudi Arabia. Apologise for its open contempt of human rights, its scorn for freedom of religious expression, and its systematic repression of equal rights. For taking away women’s right to vote, for refusing them a passport without the husband’s consent, for crediting their testimony with the validity half that of a man, and for forbidding them something as trivial as driving a car. For the poor and underpaid Philipino Christian guest workers put in jail merely for possessing a personal bible. Apologise for punishment under Sharia. For punishing theft by amputation and alcohol consumption by whipping. For stoning to death for adultery and homosexuality - I could continue.
Saudi Arabia should be ashamed of itself and an apology for offending that country with satirical drawings amounts to falling at the knees of fundamentalism.
My message to Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries that joined the boycott is: You insult my democratic conviction. Say sorry."