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Cartoon Crisis
TIMELINE September 30, 2005: Cartoons
published. October 12, 2005: Hlayhel suggests
the Danish are insulting to Muslims, but sensitive to Jews.
October 14, 2005: Demonstration at City hall Plaza in Copenhagen.
October 19, 2005 Petition from ambassadors in Muslim countries to meet with Prime Minister Rasmussen.
December 3, 2005: First delegation in Cairo representing a coalition of mosques.
End of December: Second delegation, in Beirut.
Late January: Protests and demonstrations in Denmark.
February 2006: Demokratiske Muslimer was formed by Naser Khader.
March 2006: French television crew records the activist imam Akkari potentially threatening Khader.
Prime Minister
Rasmussen
Flemming Rose, (Culture
Editor of Jyllands-Posten)
Naser Khader
Ahmed Abu Laban
Ahmed Akkari
Liberal Democracy Principles
Principle of respectful non identification
Equality between religions Tension between freedom of religion
and Separation of Church and State Leading to illiberal concept of
secularism: Freedom from Religion Recent evolution of laicite in France,
1989, 2004, 2010
European Secularism in a Comparative Perspective
Difference of meanings of Neutrality and Public Space, compared to the US
Is the European and American divide overrated?
Difference with Muslim countries
International Consequences
MAIN POINTS
Religion on the International Agenda
How and why the cartoons crisis became global
TIMELINE January 29, 2006: Clerics from the
Muslim Brotherhood condemn the cartoons.
Early February 2006: Al Qaradawi gives a sermon on Qatar TV, urging Muslims to stage a "day of rage."
February 2006: Wave of international protests. February 5: Lebanese protest,
injuring 50 and killing 1. February 14-18: Pakistani
protest, injuring at least 140 and killing 5.
February 17: Protests in Lybya injure over 50 and kill 11.
February 18-24: Protests in Nigeria kill at least 130 and injure over 450.
February 2006: Qureshi, a cleric from Peshawar, offers a $25,000 bounty for killing "the cartoonist."
Fire burning in the Danish Embassy in Damascus in protest.