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Toen de moslims de minister wouden zien zei hij dat ze maar een rechtzaak moesten aanspannen want dat kon binnen hun rechtsysteem. dat deden ze maar toen besliste de verantwoordelijke dat er gene grond was voor de klacht. Dus toen voelden de moslims zich bedrogen.
Een imam nam de tekeningen mee nar het Midden-Oosten:
The group of imams set out for a tour of the Middle East to present their case to many influential religious and political leaders, and to ask for support.[31] The dossier contains such statements as the following:
We urge you [recipient of the letter or dossier] to — on the behalf of thousands of believing Muslims — to give us the opportunity of having a constructive contact with the press and particularly with the relevant decision makers, not briefly, but with a scientific methodology and a planned and long-term programme seeking to make views approach each other and remove misunderstandings between the two parties involved.
Since we do not wish for Muslims to be accused of being backward and narrow, likewise we do not wish for Danes to be accused of ideological arrogance either. When this relationship is back on its track, the result will bring satisfaction, an underpinning of security and the stable relations, and a flourishing Denmark for all that live here.
The faithful in their religion (Muslims) suffer under a number of circumstances, first and foremost the lack of official recognition of the Islamic faith. This has led to a lot of problems, especially the lack of right to build mosques [...]
Even though they [the Danes] belong to the Christian faith, the secularizations have overcome them, and if you say that they are all infidels, then you are not wrong.
We [Muslims] do not need lessons in democracy, but it is actually us, who through our deeds and speeches educate the whole world in democracy.
This [Europe's] dictatorial way of using democracy is completely unacceptable.
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Danish Prime Minister's meeting refusal
Having received petitions from Danish imams, eleven ambassadors from Muslim-majority counties
asked for a meeting with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in 12 October 2005, in order to discuss what they perceived as an "on-going smearing campaign in Danish public circles and media against Islam and Muslims". In a letter the ambassadors mentioned not only the issue of the Muhammad cartoons, but also a recent indictment against Radio Holger,[10] and statements by MP Louise Frevert[11] and the Minister of Culture Brian Mikkelsen.[12] It concluded:
We deplore these statements and publications and urge Your Excellency’s government to take all those responsible to task under law of the land in the interest of inter-faith harmony, better integration and Denmark's overall relations with the Muslim world.[13]
The government answered the ambassadors' request for a meeting with Rasmussen with a letter only: "The freedom of expression has a wide scope and the Danish government has no means of influencing the press. However, Danish legislation prohibits acts or expressions of blasphemous or discriminatory nature.
The offended party may bring such acts or expressions to court, and it is for the courts to decide in individual cases."[14]
The ambassadors maintained that they had never asked for Jyllands-Posten to be prosecuted; possibly, the non-technical phrase of the letter, "to take NN to task under law", meant something like "to hold NN responsible within the limits of the law".[15] Rasmussen replied: "Even a non-judicial intervention against Jyllands-Posten would be impossible within our system".[16]
The Egypt Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aboul Gheit, wrote several letters to the Prime Minister of Denmark and to the United Nations Secretary-General explaining that they did not want the Prime Minister to prosecute Jyllands-Posten; they only wanted "an official Danish statement underlining the need for and the obligation of respecting all religions and desisting from offending their devotees to prevent an escalation which would have serious and far-reaching consequences".[17]
Subsequently, the Egyptian government played a leading role in defusing the issue in the Middle East.[18]
The refusal to meet the ambassadors has been criticized by the opposition, twenty-two Danish ex-ambassadors,[19] and ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen.