Denmark: Newspaper apologizes for offending Muslims

by Esther
Islam in Europe
February 26, 2010

http://www.legal-project.org/661/denmark-newspaper-apologizes-for-offending-muslims

Excerpt:

Politiken say this apology will not prevent them from publishing the cartoons in the future. If so, is there really a difference between this current apology and Jyllands-Posten's apology for offending Muslims?

Still, it's hard to see why Politiken felt the need to apologize now for something they did in 2008, particularly when they claim they're apologizing but don't intend to change their behavior by it.

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As the first newspaper to do so, the Politiken newspaper has reached a settlement with descendants of the Prophet Mohammed in connection with the affront its re-print of drawings of the Prophet Mohammed in 2008 may have caused Muslims.

The settlement was reached between Politiken and eight organisations representing 94,923 of the Prophet Mohammed's descendants in a move Politiken's Editor-in-Chief Tøger Seidenfaden says shows that dialogue is the way forward.

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