Re: Denmak in a sorry state
While you see the difference as being it’s a deragatory portrayal of 2 very diferent men, others don’t. They see it as the difference of one is wearing a bomb-turban and the other is eating babies.
Re: Made in Denmark!
And this from a country that supports homicide bombers that kill innocent in honor of the prophet?
Horrifically misplaced priorities.
Re: Denmak in a sorry state
so why not publish caricatures of both then?
Re: Made in Denmark!
Iran. :k:
Re: Made in Denmark!
Well done Iran for excercsing your rights to shop from whom you want.
Re: Denmak in a sorry state
Norwegians are feeling very sorry for themselves as well, in fact quite angry at their papers.
http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=21642
Problems for Norwegian businesses abroad
The conflict over the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed first published by a Danish newspaper has now resulted in problems for Norwegian firms in Muslim countries. Norwegian companies in Iraq have already lost contracts. Security measures around many Norwegian families in many countries have also been intensified over the last few days due to the conflict. A businessman in Northern Iraq says his firm has had no problems earlier, but that now contracts are being cancelled because he is Norwegian. He also knows of other Norwegian companies which have encountered problems during the last few days. **The businessman is angry and frustrated over the fact that a marginal Norwegian paper can publish a facsimilie of the Danish caricatures, thus creating so many problems through ignorance. **
Re: Denmak in a sorry state
Yes ignorance.
Free speech aint so free anymore, it costs.
Re: Denmak in a sorry state
Reza, thank you for all the news articles. It's good to see Muslim businessmen and countries taking appropriate action.
I like New Zealand's response and others need to follow suit.
Re: Made in Denmark!
Iran is cool.
Re: Denmak in a sorry state
Its good policy to use the glonal Muslim dollar to hurt enemies where it matters. In the pocket. The GDP of the united Muslim world must be what, c. $1 trn? Maybe...
Thats a lot.
Re: Made in Denmark!
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18066748-23109,00.html
Gulf Muslims step up Danish ban
MUSLIMS in the Gulf Arab region intensified their boycott of Danish goods as the uproar over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad raged unabated today. Some moderate clerics and regional trade groups also urged Muslims to use this economic weapon to punish other European nations whose dailies printed the inflammatory caricatures. “I think a boycott is the decent way of responding to the attack. Anything that has to do with money is very effective,” said Ayman Abdulrahman, an Egyptian executive in Dubai. “I might expand my boycott to include other countries who insist on escalating the situation,” he said. Qatar’s Chamber of Commerce said it had halted dealings with Danish or Norwegian delegations, urging Muslim states to do the same. In Bahrain, parliament formed a committee to contact Arab and Islamic governments to enforce the boycott. Supermarket shelves remained devoid of Danish dairy products and Muslim scholars, state-run organisations and text messages rallied people to maintain their stand.
The ban showed signs of harming more Danish firms as Novo Nordisk, the world’s biggest maker of insulin, said pharmacies and hospitals in Saudi Arabia had been avoiding its products. “Some customers ask about what’s Danish and avoid it,” said one pharmacy owner in Riyadh. The controversial drawings, including one which shows the Prophet Mohammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September and were later reprinted in more European newspapers. Thousands of protesters torched the Danish consulate in Beirut yesterday, a day after Syrians set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. Many moderate clerics condemned the attacks and urged Muslims to stick to peaceful protest. “Not a single sachet of a Danish product has left on our shelves,” said the director of a Kuwaiti supermarket. “They have to respect our religion,” said Khalid Abdulrahman, a civil servant who was shopping at the store. Danish-Swedish dairy company Arla Foods said it was losing $US1.8 million ($2.4 million) of sales a day in the Middle East. Its products were removed from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait. Branches of French hypermarket Carrefour in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have also stopped selling Danish goods. “Danish products have been removed from all (UAE) branches of Carrefour,” one official said. “I’ve joined the boycott from the first day … economics affects politics,” said Bahraini trader Ghassan al-Shehabi. Some Muslims, however, said the boycott was not the best way to resolve the crisis. “I think we should seek dialogue, not boycotting products or burning flags in the street which only escalates the problem,” said Suha Krimeed, a Lebanese marketing manager living in Dubai.
Re: Made in Denmark!
toas' toas' toast.
Re: Made in Denmark!
How funny. Iran will cancel contract with France, Germany, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Italy, and every other country that had newspapers that printed the cartoons. I wonder if the Islamic countries will step in and provide Iran with the hard currency it gets, since this wipes out almost all of Iran's major trade partners.
Re: Made in Denmark!
Japan 21.8%, China 9.7%, Italy 6.3%, Taiwan 5.5%, Turkey 5.4%, South Korea 5.4% (2003)
Iran’s major export partners.
Re: Made in Denmark!
Let us not forget major import partners: Germany 10.8%, France 8.5%
Let’s not forget the combination EU countries outside of the ones listed: http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/iran/intro/
I wonder how many Muslim countries will be able to provide the technological and advanced services and hardware Iran gets from France and Germany.
Re: Denmak in a sorry state
More crawling from the Danes.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/060206/2006020617.html
Statement by the Danish foreign minister on prophet cartoon issue
No more talk of the “freedom of speech” and we cannot be held accountable for the actions of the press.
Re: Denmak in a sorry state
Actually he is calling for dialoge and for violence to stop and to you that is crawling?
Mocking religious figures is a right that is not going to go away and a violent response to them will only lead to more cartoons.
Re: Denmak in a sorry state
I agree NZ govt's postion should be supported by muslim countries that in order to show freedom of speech you dont need to support people who go about insulting religious figures
Re: Made in Denmark!
They are boycotting denamrk only for now I think, not much technology in cheese :D
Re: Made in Denmark!
Iran is broke.
They will use this incident as cover for a pecipitous economic downturn that started months ago.
Tehran, Iran, Nov. 12 – Capital flight in Iran over the past fortnight reached its highest recorded level since the 1979 Islamic revolution, prompting financial advisors to the hard-line government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to call for a temporary suspension of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), according to market investors.
The market flight took a dramatic turn for the worse after Ahmadinejad made a speech in Tehran calling for the destruction of Israel and threatening Iran’s Muslim neighbours that developed ties with the Jewish state, an investor close to the government, who wished to remain anonymous, said.
The hard-line president’s remarks were condemned by the international community, and Tehran received a reprimand by the United Nations Security Council.
The capital flight began in earnest in June, after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the new president. Ahmadinejad’s record as a radical Islamist and a former Revolutionary Guards commander, and his reputed remark that “stock exchange speculation is forbidden in Islam” sent jitters through the country’s markets. Nervous investors have been transferring their capital to safe havens such as Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In the past four months, the Tehran Stock Exchange has lost more than 20 percent of its value.
Ahmadinejad’s recent comments, however, spiked capital flight to an all-time high and there are no indications that the markets would calm down any time soon, the source said.
Meanwhile, the Tehran-based daily Rooz reported on Thursday that representatives of the World Bank told the governor of Iran’s Central Bank that the country’s economy was spiralling out of control.
The free-fall of the stock exchange and investors’ exodus have added to the mounting economic problems facing Ahmadinejad’s government. The hard-line President reportedly told a cabinet meeting last month that “if we were permitted to hang two or three persons, the problems with the stock exchange would be solved for ever”.
In another development, a team of financial analysts close to the government wrote in a confidential report that the only feasible solution to Iran’s economic woes at present was to temporarily suspend activities at the Tehran Stock Exchange, according to Ahmad Sabahi, an Iranian financial analyst based in Dubai.
“We have received word that the [Tehran] Stock Exchange might halt trading within the next several weeks”, Sabahi said in a telephone interview.
He said the authorities were not implementing the decision to shut down the TSE immediately, so that investors would not draw a correlation between the suspension and the Iranian president’s recent pronouncements.
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4390
Limite news reports claim that between $200 Billion and $400Billion in equity capital has left the Iran Stock exchange. This is at least four times the amount of Irans annual Oil Revenues. President Whack Job is not inspiring investor confidence. Most Western companies providing support to Irans Oil industry are fleeing, and Irans ability to borrow is rapidly being choked off.
So they cancel projects and trade. They can hardly pay anyway.