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The response of Danish newspapers to the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, perceived by Muslims as anti-Islamic.
Arab ambassadors to Denmark delivered a letter of protest to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen condemning 12 drawings of the Prophet Muhammad published few days ago by a Danish daily.
Iceland lies in the northern Atlantic Ocean and has a population of approximately 300,000, including 389 Muslims, mostly Arabs and Africans.
The Danish daily Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad, provoking the anger of Muslims all over the world.
Politiken interviewed Drs. Hulsman immediately after the assassination of Theo van Gogh about militant Islam and how to address these militants. ”Calling the militant Muslims representative of Islam is like calling the neo-nazis representative of Christianity,” Cornelis Hulsman said. Militants...
The Danish Ministry of Education approved the teaching of the Holy Qur'an in Danish high schools. According the Danish news agency, the ministry's decision will be applied starting from the next school year. Students will study the Holy Qur'an besides Christianity.
Conditions of Muslims abroad and religious offenses still represent a serious problem seeking a solution to restore the true image of Islam. This issue is raised in reports of Egyptian embassies in Copenhagen and Paris and sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Anna Lindh Foundation, the Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for dialogue between civilizations, ,” was inaugurated in Alexandria. Simultaneously in Cairo, the Danish - Egyptian Dialogue Institute was established.
The Denmark Queen, Margrethe II, said that Islam is representing a menace, locally and internationally, because of extremist Muslims, as she described, and asked its government not to show tolerance towards them. A similar statement was mentioned in her autobiography.
Though the West has been discriminating against Islam for years, history provides for Western efforts to understand Islam, believing in the driving force of its spiritual power that is not-existent in the West. Thus, the fear of Islam emanates from fear that Muslims could regain their old hegemony...

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