Danish paper rejected Jesus cartoons

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Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused a storm of protest throughout the Islamic** world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ**, it has emerged today.
***The Danish daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny.
**In April 2003, Danish illustrator Christoffer Zieler submitted a series of unsolicited cartoons dealing with the resurrection of Christ to Jyllands-Posten.
Zieler received an email back from the paper’s Sunday editor, Jens Kaiser, which said: “I don’t think Jyllands-Posten’s readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think that they will provoke an outcry. Therefore, I will not use them.”
The illustrator told the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, which saw the email: “I see the cartoons as an innocent joke, of the type that my Christian grandfather would enjoy.”
“I showed them to a few pastors and they thought they were funny.”
**He said that he felt Jyllands-Posten rated the feelings of its Christian readers higher than that of its Muslim readers.
*religionnewsblog.com/13527
 
Just thought it was interesting that they thought it appropriate or funny to publish cartoons about Muhammad but not Jesus Christ. Nothing more or less:D

“The Danish daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny”

“He said that he felt Jyllands-Posten rated the feelings of its Christian readers higher than that of its Muslim readers.”

"Zieler received an email back from the paper’s Sunday editor, Jens Kaiser, which said: “I don’t think Jyllands-Posten’s readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think that they will provoke an outcry. Therefore, I will not use them.”
 
In April 2003, Danish illustrator Christoffer Zieler submitted a series of unsolicited cartoons dealing with the resurrection of Christ to Jyllands-Posten.

Why should this newspaper run UNSOLICITED artwork? The editor of the newspaper gets to choose what to print–it’s called freedom of the press. If you’re trying to point out bias in this Danish newspaper, what can you say about the deeply offensive anti-Semitic and anti-Christian cartoons that are constantly being printed in newspapers from middle-eastern countries?

I have seen all the 12 cartoons and only a few I find that are actually critical of Islamist radicals.
 
If I was a publisher, I wouldn’t print cartoons that weren’t funny either…it could be as simple as that without jumping to conclusions.
 
How is a direct quote ‘jumping to conclusions’? The guy didn’t say ‘we don’t accept unsolicited work.’ He didn’t say ‘your cartoons are rubbish.’ He said ‘As a matter of fact, I think that they will provoke an outcry. Therefore, I will not use them.’ They are his words!

Mike
 
Interesting, but it is a privately owned newspaper business. They can print or not print as they will. Who knows what they were thinking when making their choices? I don’t pretend to be able to read their minds; however, perhaps they should use the same scrutiny on all religious material in the future? Not censorship, just thoughtful consideration of others’ feelings? 😉

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Karin:
Just thought it was interesting that they thought it appropriate or funny to publish cartoons about Muhammad but not Jesus Christ. Nothing more or less
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It is interesting and I doun’t doubt for a moment that there is indeed a bias revealed by this story.

That said, I suspect that if a paper did publish cartoons mocking Christ, the Christian response would not include deadly riots and burning down embassy buildings.

Nohome
 
Karin said:
Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused a storm of protest throughout the Islamic** world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ**, it has emerged today.
***The Danish daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny.
***In April 2003, Danish illustrator Christoffer Zieler submitted a series of unsolicited cartoons dealing with the resurrection of Christ to Jyllands-Posten.
Zieler received an email back from the paper’s Sunday editor, Jens Kaiser, which said: “I don’t think Jyllands-Posten’s readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think that they will provoke an outcry. Therefore, I will not use them.”
The illustrator told the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, which saw the email: “I see the cartoons as an innocent joke, of the type that my Christian grandfather would enjoy.”
“I showed them to a few pastors and they thought they were funny.”
**He said that he felt Jyllands-Posten rated the feelings of its Christian readers higher than that of its Muslim readers.
**religionnewsblog.com/13527
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I’m glad they didn’t run them because two wrongs would not have made a right.
 
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Well, it’s exactly the opposite here in the US of A. On the same day the NY Times said, in print, that they wouldn’t print the cartoons, they had a picture of Mary that some “artist” had done where she is surrounded by pornographic images and dung. And they called it “art”.

The difference is, I haven’t noticed any deadly riots over this…

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Rand
 
Jyllands-Posten is another neo-conservative/zionist rag pumping up their ‘clash of civilizations’ & uniform new-order religion.

Please don’t encourage them.
 
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