On 2/4/06, Vishal Son= i <soniv Æ umich.edu> wrote:=

This is off topic= but of potential interest to this group: How people view various countries

http:/= /www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbcpoll06-3.html
I know I know. They only polled about 40,000 or so people so the results are to be taken with a few grains of salt. Nevertheless, thought provoking.

-V

On 2/4/06, Vishal S= oni < soniv Æ umich.edu> wrote:
I found those cartoons to be in extremely poor taste. I agree that from a free speech perspective those newspapers can print anything they want. But exercising this right to offend so gravely someone's sensibilities for nothing more than cheap laughs is abusing the right to free speech.

Burning down embassies is no way to respond either. It's ... infantile. But I worry that this behavior will, once again, be generalized to all Muslims. Just like the people that burnt these emabssies attributed the cartoons to all Danes.

-V

On 2/4/06, John Kapusky < jjk514 Æ gmail.com> wrote:
I don't see the humor, so probably don't get it. Like Seinfeld humor in England, it just doesn't work here. Its a shame that in the world something can get someones ire up some much that they would want to kill another person over it or burn down their embassy... Its just a drawing!

On 2/4/06, M= att Rudary <mrudary Æ umich.edu> wrote:
I completely agre= e with you that newspapers shouldn't be intimidated
into not printing th= is. It's a real shame, though, that the cartoons
aren't terribly clever or funny. This may be the reason that they
ha= ven't been reprinted in US newspapers -- why print something insulting
t= o people without making a point? Further, I don't think US newspapers
have as much to worry about with respect to freedom of the press as
Euro= pean papers do. It's thus more important to the European papers to
asser= t that right.

Matt

Daniel Reeves wrote:
> And by the wa= y, I'm completely serious about this. I think this is a way
> that improvetheworld can literally improve the world.
>
&= gt; Also, please don't be shy about chiming in on this.  Once the= first
> message is sent it's really no more burden for people to del= ete the
> whole thread (as long as you leave the subject line intact).
&g= t;
>
> (PS, I can see from the web logs that lots of you have v= iewed the
> pictures already so don't pretend you're not listening! := )
>
>
> --- \/   FROM Daniel Reeves AT 06.02.04 = 17:03 (Today)   \/ ---
>
>> A Danish newspaper rec= ently published cartoons depicting Mohammed and
>> muslims as terr= orists.  Muslims are up in arms about it.  In fact,
>> they've burnt down the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Syria= , as a
>> start.
>>
>> It's all over the news bu= t no US newspaper has the backbone to print
>> the cartoons. = I guess terrorism works. So this is an opportunity to
>> fight for free speech by helping make sure the agenda of the r= adical
>> religious right backfires.  And so, improvethe= world brings you:
>>
>>   http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/itw/mohammed
>> &= nbsp;  (or google improvetheworld)
>>
>> Oh, an= d since muslims are calling for boycotts of Danish products in
>> = response to those cartoons, you should also buy more Danish stuff.
>> Like Legos.
>>
>> <ducking>,
>&g= t; Danny
>
>

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Regards,

John J. Kapusky=20