Copenhagen - Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered the Muslim world by publishing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad last year, has won a Danish critical journalism award for its initiative, the jury said.
Denmark's largest daily was honoured with the Victor Prize for "having opened everyone's eyes by showing how easy it is to introduce cracks in freedom of expression and how so-called political correctness is infiltrating what we believe to be inalienable rights," Hans Engell, the editor of tabloid Ekstra Bladet which awards the prize, said during a prize ceremony in Copenhagen late on Thursday.
Michelle Malkin also links the story and reports of Pakistanis burning effigys of George Bush in the course of protesting against the cartoons and life imitating art. This, despite the fact, that the US had nothing to do with the publication.
Once again, we're seeing cartoons being used simply as an excuse to riot and demonstrate against non Muslims.
Rioting in Nigeria continues, as seven more people were killed. The Nigerian riots were touched off after Muslims began torching Christian churches and killing Christians. Christians in the country responded by going after Muslims. More than 150 people have been killed in the country so far, with 900+ injured, and there's no sign of that abating any time soon.
In Kontagora, machete-wielding Muslim mobs killed nine people and torched four Christian churches, said a Nigerian Red Cross official. They also looted shops owned by minority Christians, police said.
In Enugu, Christian youths armed with machetes and clubs attacked Muslims, beating one motorcycle taxi driver to death and burning a mosque. A stray bullet also killed an 8-year-old Christian girl and rioters blocked off the area with burning barricades. James Obi, a market trader who was part of the mob in Enugu, said they killed the taxi driver, known locally as an Okada, after a rumour that a Muslim policeman killed a Christian boy. “We got angry and we killed one of them on Okada. His corpse has been set ablaze,” he said.
In Potiskum, Muslim youths burned shops, churches and houses belonging to minority Christians early on Friday. Police said 65 rioters were arrested. Federal Police spokesman Haz Iwendi said the violence broke out late on Thursday in Kontagora. “There were skirmishes in Kontagora. It started last night and continued this morning. Eleven deaths were recorded. Nine churches were burnt and vehicles were destroyed,” he said. “Twenty-six suspects have been arrested,” he said, adding, “the place is now calm.”
Meanwhile, Indonesian police said that police had arrested 27 members of a Muslim hard-line group after they threatened to expel foreigners from Indonesia who supported drawings of the Prophet Muhammad...
UPDATE:
Mark My Words makes a list. Before the cartoons, there was a moviemaker. Before the moviemaker (Theo Van Gogh), there was books (Salman Rushdie). And will the next be a Muslim singer who is considered the Muslim Madonna?
Posted to the following [and updated regularly]: Stuck on Stupid and Voteswagon. And Argghhh!, Stop the ACLU, and Wizbang's Carnival of Trackbacks. Blue Star Chronicles and Laurence Simon both think Muslims need a time out.
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