A Norwegian paper was the first to reproduce the offending cartoons—after, it has to be said, they'd been shown to offend. I think the Saudi boycott (of Lurpak and... well, definitely Lurpak) was already in place.
This conflation of newspaper with country is intriguing. Nigerian MPs have "passed a resolution ordering the Kano state government to call off negotiations with Denmark over a hydroelectric plant worth some $25m and to cancel the purchase of 72 buses from the country worth some $57m" (BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4689314.stm)). It all serves as a useful reminder of the kind of countries most of these people live in that they automatically assume that if something has appeared in a newspaper, it must have been sanctioned by the Government. On that basis, the louder they shout for the resignation and/or extermination of the Danish premier, the more you have to feel sorry for them.
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Date: 2006-02-07 07:45 pm (UTC)This conflation of newspaper with country is intriguing. Nigerian MPs have "passed a resolution ordering the Kano state government to call off negotiations with Denmark over a hydroelectric plant worth some $25m and to cancel the purchase of 72 buses from the country worth some $57m" (BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4689314.stm)). It all serves as a useful reminder of the kind of countries most of these people live in that they automatically assume that if something has appeared in a newspaper, it must have been sanctioned by the Government. On that basis, the louder they shout for the resignation and/or extermination of the Danish premier, the more you have to feel sorry for them.