Well, Sweden is way up on the anger list right now and i can perfectly understand your point. However, i must point out that theres much more then a few cartoons behind this hateridge, and that extremists have pretty much taken advantage of the whole story for their cause. Right now, i feel that both sides are equally rotten. Denmark is known to have a great deal of racism, even far up at government level, and although they claim its all about freedom of speech, it can just as easily be considered a provocation. Also keep in mind that Denmarks prime minister had an opportunity at an early stage to calm things down, but refused to meet with representatives from a number of muslim nations, hence made things worse. I personally fully respect all beliefs and have some understanding in muslims beeing pissed of because of this. However...theres no justification what so ever in the actions with threats and violence. These action will only fuel the prejudice some people have about muslims, and unfortunatly cast a very dark shadow on the majority of the decent people that live in these countries, and wants peaceful solutions just as much as the rest of us. Media have no interest in shooting the peaceful bunch, thats boring news. In normal order, they focus on the juicy stuff, preferrably something that contains violence, death and mutilation. Im all for freedom of speech, but theres nothing wrong in showing some respect at the same time. And that goes for both sides. Anyway, this is just my humble opinion, i dont expect anyone else to share it. :) Damnit, i just broked my 10 sentence rule...

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