Egyptian newspaper, Al Fager (as pronounced in Egyptian Arabic) has published the controversial Danish Mohammed Cartoons five month ago on Oct 17, 2005. Any ideas why it might have taken the Muslim community so long to react?
The Freedom For Egyptians Blog publishes scans from that newspaper, adding to the theory that the recent violence might be a conspiracy to juice up the anti-western feelings in the Arabic region. Since the journalists of that newspaper who published the story are both Muslim, it seems plausible that the hate has been stimulated ‘on the right time’. That makes it even worse.
Keeping in mind that the cartoons were published in “the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, while Muslims were worshipping in this holy month, not a single protest was called in Cairo against Denmark or the newspaper.”
Read about this on the FFE blog.
To illustrate the history of cartoons and the ‘humor’ behind them,
Tom Gross listed up cartoons from the Arab world, while retecool, a Dutch weblog on his way trying to earn a Fatwah, has baptized it’s ‘photofuck friday’ to line up cartoons about the Arabs.
Tip : Katsuyuki
Vilas Pendse
July 22, 2006 at 8:39 pm
If you read the article in El Fagr which accompanied the pictures, you would have realized the article was strongly, strongly condemning the “cartoons”, unlike the european nations which openly and mockingly reproduced the photos.
Coolz0r
July 22, 2006 at 8:44 pm
I agree, but the point is the cartoons already reached the Arab countries months before the riots began, which would indicate the cartoons were used months later to stir up anti-western feelings, on purpose. For the record, I think the cartoons are weak and untastful.