Letters of support to the Danish embassy and, of complaint to the police and the BBC
Get writing folks. This issue is far too important to let a minority of violent and intolerant people to dictate what is acceptable in our democratic society. They are the newcomers here - it is they who should accept the ways of the host country, not the other way around. If they do not like 'OUR' freedom of speech they have a choice, they can exercise the freedom of movement guaranteed to them under British law and...sling their hook!
Danish embassy: IONAMB@UM.DK
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Why was this demonstrator not shot when it was seen he was wearing a suicide bombers' harness?
Yours sincerely,
Douglas Tidy
Name and address supplied.
A valid question, Mr Tidy.
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This letter was sent to the BBC...and refused.
Controversy
over the publication of images depicting Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten
has erupted into an international furor. While Muslims worldwide are calling
for a boycott of Denmark and any other nation whose press reprints the
cartoons, Europeans are trying to stand up for Western principles of freedom
of speech and not cave in to self-censorship in the name of multiculturalism
and fear.
While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the
Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances,
hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been
created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim
world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it's
just that no other images of Mohammed have ever been so widely publicized.
This latest protest is nothing more than orchestrated hatred against the west by extremists. The police do nothing , apart from trying to arrest a white man who stopped his van and complained. He was told he had one second to get back in his van or face arrest. Freedom of speech for the extremists but none for the white non-muslim.
Nick Griffin of the BNP was tried for privately saying Islam was a cruel religion - these muslim extemists get off scott free for demanding the death of non-muslims.
Deborah Parker
Newton Abbot
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Hello
I would just like to say that your country has my full support, and that of many of my friends, in your stand on free speech. We have printed all the cartoons in the front of our website www.ActioninEngland.GB.com and we are backing your country all the way.
Stand firm.
Best regards
G
Name and address supplied.
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TO IONAMB@UM.DK
To whom it may concern, I would like to say how much I am with Denmark re this cartoon debacle.
Here in the UK it seems we can parody any religion, even the Monarch but we must wear kid gloves when dealing with the Muslim faith!
Immigrants who don't subscribe to the customs of the host country should be repatriated at the earliest opportunity.
In addition I would add that any immigrant convicted of a crime should be deported, along with their entire family. The Western countries are too tolerant and we are being taken advantage of, it's time the West woke up and realised that we are being taken for granted.
Denmark is one of the most liberal countries in Europe and I detest the way she is being treated by the Islamists.
Perhaps this episode of anti West rhetoric will wake the Europeans up and make us all reconsider our very lax immigration rules and our over generous welfare handouts.
Sincerely
X. XXXX, Surrey, England.
Name and address supplied.
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I am sorry you are having to endure such filthy behaviour from your so called immigrants. You have my sympathy in this matter. But at least we in the west now realise that these Islamic followers are NOT able to settle in the west and that their culture does not work with our culture. How could it? They are 6 hundred years further down the evolutionary ladder.
You have my support and best wishes. I also thank your Newspapers for making it so apparent that Islam and Europe can never co-exist!
Name and address supplied.
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trust and hope that there is has been an outpouring of support for ‘Brave’
Denmark from my fellow countrymen and women, in the form of letter and email
support for your refusal to back down to the Muslim bigots that would
otherwise curb our cherished freedom of speech and expression. Everyone, and I
mean ‘everyone’ that I have had cause to speak with over this issue, is
in full agreement with the newspaper concerned and the stance taken by the
Danish government. Regrettably the actions of the British news media and our
government is, typically, in these dangerous times, left wanting. Viva
Denmark. Woody Birmingham England
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Sir,
You have my most sincere support in your campaign for freedom against the mediaeval muslims whose reaction against the cartoons is so absurdly aggravated.
Douglas Tidy
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And some letters published in the 'Telegraph'
Cartoons'
target was terrorists, not Prophet Mohammed
Sir - Humour is a risky business, and when used as a weapon can turn out to be
double-edged.
In the case of the portrayal of Mohammed wearing a turban which is, or houses, a
bomb, it seems important on both sides of the Muslim-Western divide that the
target of the humour is understood (News, February 3).
It is not Mohammed himself who is being mocked: it is those who use his
teachings as a platform for war. The very people who are threatening to bomb
Western targets and kidnap and misuse citizens of European countries.
The mockery is not even directed at all of Islam. Muslims who have no desire
other than to live in harmony with their neighbours are, surely, not included.
Christopher Macy, Lincoln
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Sir - They say a week is long time in politics: you published a letter (January
31), endorsed by the so-called "Muslim Parliament" and Muslim Forum
defending the right to free speech, even if it meant ridiculing or insulting
someone else's belief.
Within a few days that same Muslim opinion is in uproar because someone decided
to exercise their right to free speech. Does this mean that Muslims believe they
have the right to ridicule other religions, but no one has the right to speak
about theirs?
Paul Wakeman, Wordsley, W Mids
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Sir - While cultural sensitivity in newspaper cartoons is to be encouraged, it
is noteworthy that many of the complaints in relation to Denmark are from
countries which, on a daily basis, publish virulently anti-Semitic images and
pictures in their own national journals.
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Jeremy Brier, Pinner, Middx
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Sir
- Around three years or so ago, when the British and Americans were first in
Afghanistan, there were lots of newsreels showing the Taliban training in
house-to-house fighting.
Their targets were not the American or British flag, but the Christian Cross
painted on boards.
Not once did I hear or read of a Muslim complaining about this, although it
showed that Christians were to be targets for their guns.
Leonard Barnham, Barnoldswick
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Dear Sir Ian,
May i ask you clear up a certain amount confusion i feel i have recently been exposed to.
Re last nights demonstration by what can only be described as a baying mob which
seemed to be chanting obscenities towards the population of this country. Even
so far as chanting that people should be beheaded. A lot of this crowd had their
heads covered obviously to avoid being recognised.
The placards they held had messages of absolute vile hate, calling for the
annihilation and murder of all people with opinions unsatisfactory and contrary
to their own beliefs.
Correct me as i am confused concerning the recent arrest of the young lady who's
only crime was to stand in Whitehall alone and quietly read out the names of
those poor young men and women who's lives a had been lost in Iraq. The elderly
couple who were subjected to hours of interrogation from police officers because
they dare to publicly display literature depicting and alternative to the gay
lifestyle. The 80 year old gentleman who was hauled from his seat and detained
under the terrorism act for daring to call out "rubbish" towards the foreign
secretary. And more recently the man who tried to hold a lone protest in London
and was filmed in a intimidating manner by some of your officers and then
arrested because of what was on his placard. I am not sure of the details but
you would be aware of it. And you would also be aware that he posed absolutely
no threat to any one in Britain or Europe at all. We have been told young lads
wearing their hoods up in Bluewater shopping Mall are likely to be arrested for
obscuring their faces and posing a threat to innocent bystanders, a man in a
trilby being asked to remove it in that bastion of Britishness (a public house),
to comply with in-house security.
I think (and nobody i know, thinks to the contrary) the police and indeed the
government need to urgently review the sense of priority deployed in these
matters and start arresting the type of frightening people who we saw last
night. A real threat to this once peaceful accommodating and never unpleasant
nation, but fast becoming the latter,and not be so content with "easy policing"
to persecute people who are obvious middle class or soft targets.
You as the head of policing in this country have a duty to the whole nation to
make the majority feel comfortable on our streets. As things stand it would
appear to many, many people you have been derelict in your duty. Please make
this a priority and show the public you have no intention of allowing this sort
of spontaneous mob rule ever on our streets again.
I noticed the vigour your officers put into "quelling" the Country Side Alliance
demonstration last year, these extreem draconian measures surely could have been
applied here yesterday. Or may i suggest the target was not a very soft one in
this case, and far too difficult to deal with in the appropriate and expected
manner
Thank you
Paul Edmond
Herts
