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1
Q

What do Paul Marshall and Nina Shea argue are crimes in most Western Countries?

A

Discrimination and incitement to violence against Muslims and others

2
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What do Paul Marshall and Nina Shea also argue about speech crimes?

A

Speech crimes must be something wider

3
Q

When were the Danish Cartoons released?

A

2005 - 2006

4
Q

What did the cartoons depict?

A

twelve caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad

5
Q

Were they allowed to be reprinted?

A

No

6
Q

What were the most controversial of the issues?

A

The image of a Prophet Muhammad carrying a lit hom on his head decorated with the Islamic face, his face was very stereotypical villain looking with heavy dark eyebrows and whiskers

7
Q

Who censored the images in 2009?

A

Yale University Press

8
Q

Where were they republished?

A

Egypt, Morocco and Indonesia

9
Q

When did the issue arise?

A

After the Danish writer Kare Bluitgen complained about being unable to find an illustrator for his book

10
Q

Why was it hard for him to find an illustrator?

A

No one dared to break the Islamic tradition of banning the portrayal of Muhammad’s image

11
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What were the cartoonists asked to do?

A

Draw the prophet as they saw him

12
Q

What were they aiming to reject?

A

They did this in an act of free speech in order to reject the pressures put on them by Muslim groups

13
Q

What happened as a result of the cartoons?

A

Demonstrations were made

14
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What demonstrations were made?

A

Riots, violence and boycotts with some 200 people dying

15
Q

What did Egyptian demonstrators do?

A

They invoked the name of Osama Bin Laden and burned the Danish flag publicly

16
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why did they do this?

A

In order to show their hatred for their cartoons

17
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What did Jan Lund say about the issue?

A

He said there was little discussion

18
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What did Jan Lund argue their intention was?

A

“Their intention was to provoke a debate about the extent to which we self censor in our coverage of Muslim issues’

19
Q

What can mockery of Islam lead to?

A

It can cause a strong impact on communities

20
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What does Foreign Secretary Jack Straw argue?

A

There may be freedom of speech by that does not give people the right to be disrespectful

21
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What were the republications of the cartoons like?

A

They were unnecessary as it was disrespectful and wrong