[Rhodes22-list] Darfur - This Will Keep Slim's People Out of Danger

Steven Alm stevenalm at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 17:25:15 EST 2008


How ironic in the first place that there would ever be a Scandinavian
cartoon controversy.  We really aren't a very laughy people.  The most
happiness you'll find is when the whether changes and your gramdpa's big toe
stops throbbing.

On Jan 14, 2008 6:44 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Any American interests there?  I don't see any, let'm keep fighting!  Brad
>
> (from Fleming Rose's weblog)
>
> Sweden and Norway were ready to deploy 400 soldiers in Darfur to support
> the
> UN peacekeeping forces, but due to the cartoon crisis in 2006 the regime
> in
> Khartoum has refused to accept troops from Scandinavia.
>
>
> "The Opposition from Sudan makes it impossible to keep the promise of a
> Norwegian-Swedish commitment," the ministers of foreign affairs from the
> two
> countries said in a statement.
>
>
> Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir stated in November that he won't accept
> soldiers from Scandinavian countries, where newspapers published cartoons
> of
> the prophet Mohammed.
>
>
> "No one who speaks blasphemeous of the prophet will be allowed to set foot
> on Sudan soil," said President al-Bashir.
>
> The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published cartoons of Mohammed in
> September 2005, and the Norwegian newspaper Magazinet reprinted the
> cartoons
> in January 2006. None of the big Swedish newspapers published the
> cartoons,
> but in the fall of 2007 they reproduced drawings of Mohammed as a dog by
> Swedish artist Lars Vilks that were censored by several Swedish art
> institutions.
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