The Islamists’ Bogus Blasphemous Cartoons (Large images here, here, and here)

I just received a tip from a reader in Denmark with more info about the lying delegation of Danish imams who fabricated anti-Muslim artwork and pinned it on the Jyllands-Posten in December to stoke the jihadists. (See Scott Johnson’s round-up at Power Line.)

In addition to the fake drawings and photos and the other lies included in the Danish imams’ propaganda pamphlet posted over at The Counterterrorism Blog, my reader reports that Danish radio has enumerated additional falsehoods.

The imams reportedly spread lies that the Jyllands-Posten had 120 cartoons, not 12, and that the paper was owned by the government. (There are no state-run newspapers in Denmark.) In addition, the imams reportedly claimed that the Danish government would censor the Koran, burn the Koran, and that Danes were planning to make a blasphemous movie about Mohammed. (Brussels Journal and Jyllands-Posten had initial reports on these lies. See here and here.)

The full Danish radio report is here.

It’s in Danish and I’m looking for someone who has the time to do a full English translation. Thanks. (Update: Translation below. in extended entry. Thanks to my Danish readers.)

Meanwhile Dennis at Neander News follows up on how the Danish press is putting the heat on the Danish imams. Here’s the cover of Ekstrabladet, which confronted Danish lying imam Ahmed Akkari about the fake pigsnout photo:

Power Line points to another truth-evading interview with Akkari by the CBC.

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I linked to Paul Belien’s post on The Cartoon Hoax yesterday, but it’s definitely worth revisiting and quoting at length until the rest of the mainstream media catch up (if ever):

When the Danish press discovered the three false so-called Danish cartoons, the imams refused to say where they had got them. They claimed, however, that the false cartoons were genuinely Danish and had been added to “give an insight in how hateful the atmosphere in Denmark is towards Muslims.”

The Brussels Journal has always doubted whether the cartoons added by the imams were genuine. Whenever we mentioned them we explicitly wondered whether they were not “of the imam’s own making.” Certain Western mainstream media, however, such as the Australian network SBS and the British BBC authoritatively declared that the pigsnout was one of Jyllands-Posten’s cartoons.

Yesterday an American blogger discovered where the “pigsnout Muhammad” comes from. It has no relation to Muhammad whatsoever, it is not even a cartoon, but a fax image of a photo of a French clown performing at a pig festival.

Denmark is being punished at the instigation of radical imams because twelve cartoonists have depicted Muhammad. However, these imams created their own three Muhammad images. They have even presented a French clown as being Muhammad. Because the twelve JP cartoonists are not Muslims, the Muslim blasphemy laws do not apply to them. But these laws do apply to the imams. Consequently, these imams deserve death. They – and no-one else – depicted the prophet as a pig – the highest imaginable insult in Islam.

…Western papers and blogs that published the twelve cartoons were right to do so. If they had not published, no-one would have been able to ascertain that the pigsnout was not among them. If they had not published, the cheating, blasphemous imams would have got away with their lies. The public is served by information, never harmed by it. Let this be a lesson to the cowards of The Guardian, SBS, the BBC and the British and American mainstream media, who “out of respect” for Islam would have allowed blasphemous imams to get away with their gross insult of the prophet, with slander and libel, and with the violent acts which they instigated.

Belien also holds the BBC accountable for its negligence on the matter here. More on the BBC admission of failure from Mark in Mexico.

Secretary of State Condi Rice targets Iran and Syria.

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Bogus cartoon background:

Origins of a fake Muhammad cartoon
The lies of the Danish imams
Lorenzo Vidino/Counterterrorism Blog
Paul Belien
Neander News
Gateway Pundit (note especiallly transcript of Fox News Channel’s Jonathan Hunt’s interview with Abu Laban here and Danish imams’ terror ties here.)
Instapundit
American Thinker

Excellent, link-rich overview of the Cartoon Genesis chronology from Cinnanon Stillwell at SFGate.com.

The story of one feather, five hens and twelve drawings

Misunderstandings, misinterpretations and lies abound when you read about the country of Denmark in foreign media these days. In fact, something suggests that the well-known feather has become – at least – five hens. Or, as it were, that twelve drawings have become 120. We’ll get back to that.

There are undoubtedly several real reasons for all the muslims of the world to rage against Jyllands-Posten. And maybe even that, as a consequence, they burn little pieces of Denmark to the ground and subject its citizens to death threats.

But part of the image of Denmark, that has made furious Arabians burn the Dannebrog and boycott Arla, also consists of misinterpretations and misunderstandings. DR Nyheder Online (Danish State Broadcast Service News Online, has been trawling the web and come upon some of them. A larger collection can be viewed at the homepage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where more of the many questions are answered.

Cosiness-loving, flat and cute

Some of the below errors and misunderstandings can be attributed to the filtering through SMS’s, e-mails, weblogs and news articles, that sometimes tends to distort facts and twist angles. Others have apparently been deliberately planted. The key point is that they combine to give a distorted picture of Denmark.

1. There are 120 drawings of the Prophet Muhammed.
On 3 January several media – Including DR Nyheder Online – reported that a researcher at the Dansk Ægyptisk Dialoginstitut (Danish-Egyptian Institute for Dialogue) by the name of Hanna Ziadeh during a one hour interview on Egyptian television had had to explain several misunderstandings in the matter about the Muhammed drawings in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Among other things, Ziadeh could invalidate the assertion that there were 120 drawings, and instead avow that there were 12 of them.

2. Jyllands-Posten is owned by the ruling party, an extremist right wing party.
On 12 January Berlingske Tidende (Danish newspaper based in Copenhagen) was able to document that an Islamic delegation had told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram that Jyllands-Posten is owned by the ruling party, and that that party is on the extreme right wing.

3. In the 12 drawings Muhammed is shown as Father Christmas, as a woman and with a pig’s snout.
During the interview with Al-Ahram the touring Danish imams also made it clear that Muhammed had been depicted as Father Christmas and in a female shape. According to Hanna Ziadeh from Dansk-Ægyptisk Dialogcenter, the imams have also shown a drawing in which the Prophet was portrayed with a pig’s snout. The twelve drawings in Jyllands-Posten do not show Muhammed as either Father Christmas, shaped like a woman or with a pig’s snout. In Weekendavisen (Danish weekly newspaper) there have been drawings of the Prophet portrayed as an abstract painting, as Father Christmas and as a woman. The imams have later – on Danish television – explained that some of the materials they showed in Egypt had been forwarded to them in Denmark. See the link above.

My addition: Today on DR TV1 the Weekendavisen drawings were explained. It’s like the paintings by Magritte reversed: Ceci n’est pas une pipe. Well, it’s not a pipe, it’s a painting of a pipe. The article in Weekendavisen, which included a pictures of a chair and a bearded lady from the 1890’s were meant as satire. None of the pictures could possibly be mistaken for Muhammed or a picture of Muhammed. It was blatantly obvious to anyone with an inkling of humour, but they made it all the way to Egypt on account of religious fervour!

4. Danes burn the Koran in the streets of Copenhagen.
In early February several media were reporting about SMS campaigns within rightist groups in Denmark encouraging people to burn the Koran in the Copenhagen Town Hall Square. According to the Danish MP Nasser Khader (Radical Left Party, actually a center-to-right wing party with pro-immigration views, himself a muslim immigrant with no love for the Islamists) who was a guest on P1 Formiddag (late morning radio show) on 7 February, this made imam Mahmoud Fouad al-Barazi state weepingly on Al-Jazeera “On Saturday the Danes will burn the Koran”. According to Khader, the imam says nothing about the fact that the SMS campaign is directed at a narrow, right wing and neo-nazi target group, not at a wide circle of Danes. An article in Jyllands-Posten on 31 January confirms this.

5. Danish authorities are contemplating to delete verses in the Koran.
On 12 January Berlingske Tidende reports that part of the touring imams’ materials stated, that Denmark would publish a censored edition of the Koran.

6. The Danish government plans to make a film about Muhammed
According to Berlingske Tidende on 13 January, editor Mahmoud Bakri of the newspaper Al Usbu (the Week) reports that the delegation of Danish imams have claimed that the Danish government plans to fund a new, critical film about in particular the Prophet Muhammed after the Dutch film “Submission” that was critical to Islam.

7 In a book, Queen Margrethe has encouraged opposition to Islam.
Based on a wrong translation of the word “modspil” (”sparring”) – which in the British newspaper “The Daily Telegraph” became “opposition” (in Danish “modstand”), the Danish Queen was made to appear xenophobic in a review of a book about her written by the jounalist Annelise Bistrup. The queen says the following with reference to what she calls the “frightening” aspect of Islam – the “totalitarian” aspect:
“The important thing is for us (the Danes, edit.) to give Islam some sparring”.

8. The Prime Minister refused to meet with ambassadors because it was a matter of freedom of expression.
On its homepage, the Arabian television network Al-Jazeera writes that eleven Arabian ambassadors have been rejected by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen when they wanted to meet with him to register their protest against the insults to Islam. The rejection was explained with the argument that the government could not intervene in a matter that had to do with the freedom of expression. The Prime Minister explained the matter with these words in an interview given to TV2 Nyhederne (News on TV2) on 30 January: “They had written a letter that the government should take action against Jyllands-Posten. But that’s where we have to say: We cannot do that in a democracy like the Danish, with freedom of expression and of the press. I therefore wrote a polite letter to the ambassadors, exactly to prevent an escalation of the matter”.

9. Muslim children are being indoctrinated in Danish kindergardens.
According to Jyllands-Posten, imam Mahmoud Fouad al-Barazi last summer told an Egyptian newspaper that muslim children in Denmark are being indoctrinated in kindergarden. The imam believes that this – in conjunction with other social measures – is designed to “rob the islamic congregations of their religion and their identity”. The claims about indoctrination were repeated on Al-Jazeera in January.

10. Nørrebro (a part of Copenhagen) consists of 80 per cent muslims.
On 6 February the British daily the Times ran an interview with a citizen of Nørrebro. In the article the newspaper says that 80 per cent of the inhabitants of Nørrebro are muslims. According to the statistical office of Copenhagen, on 1 January 2004 Ydre (Outer) Nørrebro had just over 30 per cent immigrants and their descendants. The figure for Indre (Inner, closer to the town centre) Nørrebro was 25 per cent. Whether or not the immigrants in question are muslims cannot be told from this analysis, just like there is no mention of Danish converts. But neither can make the number of muslims in Nørrebro reach 80 per cent.

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