 - Last login: 5 days agoOcwo92
- ocwo92 is a 36 year old guy in an open relationship from Aalborg, Denmark.
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- Member since Jul 09, 2005
He's an electrical engineer and sometimes a project manager with a beautiful girlfriend (his sweet e π) and two amply independent children. He likes to live, basically.
Trivia: the nickname was his assigned user name when he came online in 1992.
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Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet | Technology | The Observer
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Feb 17, 8:08am
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•http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/...
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When the right-wing newspaper Jyllands-Posten originally solicited the drawings of the Muslem prophet, Jyllands-Posten explained in an accompanying text that Islam should learn to accept insults against their religion.
While I agree on the newspaper's stance on this matter, it underscores exactly why those images were included in the newspaper; that is, they were clearly intended as an insult against Islam.
Now, that's okay with me. Of course, the newspaper would have come off better in my view had it not rejected drawings of Jesus just one year earlier because the newspaper's editors feared it would anger its Christian readers.
The problem is that Denmark's right-wing government has taken a very hostile attitude against people of Muslem faith as a convenient form of racism: those people that have the "wrong" color conveniently happen to also be Muslem. The hostility that these political parties originally aimed at racial issues in the early 1990es are now masked as hostility against the religion of these very same people. Jyllands-Posten's use of the images thus became a symbolic expression of Denmark's hostility against people of the Middle East. It is quite appropriate that these people became outraged.
However, unlike Jyllands-Posten's motivation for publishing the images, Wikipedia's inclusion of the images serve to document the episode, and that must be defended.
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