Op Blog: Muhammed was a violent figure

By Poul Højlund, March 16, 2006

It is noticeable that the Crown’s Prosecutor in his ruling states that Muhammad was indeed a violent person, spreading his message by the sword. We all knew that, - and now it’s official: Muhammad operates through violence.

New outbursts of violent Muslim reactions are expected in the days to come as the ruling of the Danish Crown’s Prosecutor becomes known.

The government yesterday with short notice summoned all foreign ambassadors in Denmark to a briefing on the ruling of the Crown’s Prosecutor, explaining once again the sealed doors between the government and the legal system.

Likewise all Danish ambassadors were instructed to explain to their hosting countries the legal background for the rejection of the Muslim legal complaint on the cartoons. The Foreign Ministry even issued a new warning for travellers to Muslim countries at their official homepage.

The ruling terminates the legal possibilities for the Muslim plaintiffs, and even if they succeed in taking the whole matter to the European Court on Human Rights, no charges can never be pressed against JyllandsPosten; the decision from the Crown’s Prosecutor is definitive: nothing illegal has taken place.

In other words: No Danish law was ever violated in this case, only Islamic laws that have no bearing in Denmark. On the contrary the whole matter clearly demonstrates that the Muslim world – not only the extremists – actively tried and continues trying to influence the Danish legal system and the Danish daily life in all aspects.

The amount of misinformation and lies distributed by the media throughout the world on Denmark and the treatment of minority groups is unbelievable, and it will take years to establish a more realistic picture of this country again.

The Muslim world and its media bear a heavy responsibility for the campaign, as does the Danish Muslim minority of which a major part still thinks that the Danish government should apologize, thereby clearly demonstrating that despite living in Denmark for decades, educated and in all aspects taken care off, they still haven’t captured the basics of the democratic system here.

The Cartoon War points to the tense and incurable differences between the Islamic world and the democratic world, all summed up in the view on Free Speech and man-given laws as a contrast to the laws derived from an Arab book of the eighth century.