Via Reuters
Denmark urged its citizens on Tuesday to leave Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, as Islamic outrage over a cartoon controversy continued to rage across Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia.
"The Foreign Ministry is advising Danes not to travel to Indonesia and Danes already in Indonesia to leave the country," Ambassador Niels Erik Andersen told Reuters.
"The security situation is at a level where the Foreign Ministry advises against being here."
Andersen said Danish flags and pictures of the Danish prime minister had been burned in three Indonesian cities, adding:
"Some of the information I have provided to the Foreign Ministry is about threats we have received in the embassy, the threats that have been published against Danes and the activities going on in terms of demonstrations in front of our consulate."
All over cartoons published last September. Maybe it just takes that long for Muslims to be able to read and understand them. Probably takes awhile to get all those Danish flags, too. And people who do not mind possibly lighting themselves on fire. You know that has to happen if this continues.
Depicting the Prophet is prohibited by Islam but moderate Muslims, while condemning the cartoons, have expressed fear about radicals hijacking the affair.
The furor has developed into a clash between press freedom and religious respect. Some academics say it is also a clash between Islam and the West.
Then the academics, while looking at other people’s shoes, said "They’re friggin’ cartoons!"
