Reply #5: what I know of the Danish monarchy has a very different record [View All]

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the former King had the courage to wear in public the infamous yellow Jewish star and openly defy the Nazis during WWII

My post above states that racistic tendencies can be found in any European country. But they are primarily based on race, not religion. Of course religion can be used to express racism (specially after the resurgence of fundamentalism), but demeaning expression about "arabs" are not primarily religious, because Europe is mostly secular (to a level that most Americans don't understand, even among liberals). One third of the Muslims are Indonesians and it has never bothered anybody, except Christian fundies.

Denmark is no exception. The people that started the cartoon rioting could have been using any European country's cartoons. They probably chose the Danish for a question of timing that has to do with the pressure on Iran.