- - - - - - - - - -So, on Danish television yesterday [September 24th], Kurt Westergaard, the artist responsible for the most famous of the Mohammed cartoons, the ‘turban bomb’, met with Kasem Said Ahmad, who is currently the foreman of the Islamic Faith Society. The meeting was billed as an attempt at ‘dialogue’ (a word that has been very popular of late) but failed in this when Kasem Said Ahmad, failing to receive an apology from Kurt Westergaard, stood up and walked out.
Kasem Said Ahmad is quoted at JP as explaining, “I became angry and walked away. We were never even close to each other and nothing I had expected came from the meeting. I had thought he would apologise having regretted what he did”.
The meeting took place at the artist’s home and it is the first time Kurt Westergaard has stood forward on television to explain his drawing. If it were me, I’d be more than slightly concerned that Kasem Said Ahmad knew where I lived. The man is an uncompromising extremist and I am not surprised his only reason for wanting ‘dialogue’ was to get an apology.
So it seems pretty definite now that the cartoonist is not in hiding; that’s good to know.
6 comments:
Dialoguing with those who wish no dialogue.
As the Pope so wisely pointed out, reason is not part of the equation. It's the Islamist way or the highway.
The islamist version of "dialogue" consists of Westerners apologising to Muslims.
Forget it.
Vi kan ikke give os bare en millimeter. Vi kan ikke gå på kompromis med ytringsfriheden. Ytringsfriheden er den mest værdifulde frihedsrettighed, vi har, for uden den er ingen af de andre frihedsrettigheder noget værd.
We can not give one millimeter. We can not compromise our right of free expression, it is the most valuable right, we have, for without that, none of our other rights are worth anything.
These words were quoted by :- Statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen a couple of days ago, My translation is is not a literal word for word translation, but I am certain I have captured the essence of his meaning. I ask a question, why is it that a cartoonist, and the Prime Minister of a Politically and economically insignificant country, have the moral backbone to stand up and raise a metaphorical middle finger, in public, in the direction of Islam, while the wests, so called moral and political leaders shake with fear.
We need brave artists, brave journalists, and brave politicians and leaders. It goes without saying we need some real brains that can understand and accept Islam for what it is, not for what most infidels pretend it is when it is not.
Kurt Westergaard would do it again - Interview / discussion with cartoonist Kurt Westergaard & Islamist Kasem Ahmad - September 24 2006 - English translation
The latest interview: February 2 2008
Murder plot to kill Muhammed cartoon artist Kurt Westergaard - DR February 2, 2008 - English translation of complete transscript of TV interview
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