Posted on 09/27/2017 5:44:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Denmark’s integration minister, Inger Støjberg, took to Facebook on Tuesday to praise the Mohammed cartoons that a dozen years ago plunged her country into its most severe international crisis ever.
Støjberg shared a screenshot of her iPad background displaying cartoonist Kurt Westergaard’s drawing of the prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. She did so in response to the decision by Skovgaard Museum in Viborg to not display the 12 caricatures of Mohammed published by Jyllands-Posten newspaper as part of an exhibition on blasphemy.
The integration minister said that the drawings, particularly the one by Westergaard that has led to attempts on his life, “helped to define Denmark as the free society that we are”.
“They show that we are a free country where opinions are challenged and where you can say whatever you’d like and criticize whomever you’d like,” Støjberg wrote in her Facebook post.
“I personally have Kurt Westergaard’s famous drawing as the background photo on my iPad. I have it because I love Denmark. I simply love the principle of freedom that the generations that came before us have created and that our country is built upon,” she continued. …
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*That* was 12 years ago? I’m getting old.
10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . . 7. . ..
The 12 cartoons were a radical imam islamist lie (fakenews).
At least one was a photo from a hog calling conttest unrelated to islam.
Are you suggesting that the media would lie to us?
Show the cartoons.
Incurring the wrath of those-who’s-names-we-dare-not-mention.
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