E.U. raises white flag.

...In an interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph, EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said the charter would encourage the media to show "prudence" when covering religion.

"The press will give the Muslim world the message: We are aware of the consequences of exercising the right of free expression," he told the newspaper. "We can and we are ready to self-regulate that right."...

...The code would be drawn up by the European Commission, the EU executive body, and European media outlets, he said. It would not have legal status....

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Way to go, Europe. Way to show some spine. We'll wait for the next "outrage" from the religion of peace, so's to give in on even more of your rights.

 

No. We allready have pictures of Christ in urine jars, and people don't burn buildings down.

Where does your logic originate from ?

 

I hope so, Roger.

 

The Swedish government has moved to shut down the website of a far-right political party's newspaper over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The site's host, Levonline, pulled the plug on the website of the Swedish Democrats' SD-Kuriren newspaper after consulting with the government.

It is believed to be the first time a Western government has intervened to block a publication in the growing row.

Kuriren editor Richard Jomshof said the government was breaking the law.

"We have to do something about it. This is illegal. They can't do this just because we are a small magazine," he told the BBC News website.

The Swedish Democrats are a small anti-immigrant party with no representatives in parliament, but a few local elected officials.

Jomshof said the newspaper had a print run of about 30,000.....

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Looks like surrender, to me.

 

We disagree, Roger. I see a definate cave-in, so's not to offend.

I respect ya, greatly. But disagree.

 

OK, maybe surrender is a strong word.

The Danish editor at the centre of the prophet caricature furore has been sent on indefinite leave after a disagreement with management about whether their newspaper should also print cartoons of the Holocaust.
Flemming Rose, the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten who commissioned the original 12 cartoons last year, has defended the decision of his and other European newspapers to publish as a valid exercise to test the growing tendency for self-censorship when handling Islamic subject matter

But earlier this week he said he would also be open to reprinting cartoons depicting the Holocaust commissioned by an Iranian newspaper. That prompted a public disagreement with editor-in-chief Carsten Juste, who has also come under pressure to resign over the row. "The editorial management and Flemming Rose have agreed that he needed a break from work until further notice," said Tage Clausen, a spokesman for the Jyllands-Posten paper.
Jyllands-Posten has apologised for offending Muslims but has insisted it was right to print the cartoons because of the importance of freedom of speech. Muslims incensed by the images have insisted that Denmark properly apologises to defuse the row. Yesterday, the deputy prime minister, Bendt Bendtsen, said he understood Muslim anger but condemned the violent protests that have broken out in Muslim countries.

The EU has tried to draw the sting of the protesters by calling for a voluntary code of conduct for the media that would avoid further inflaming religious sensibilities. The US has accused Iran and Syria of deliberately stoking up reactions.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoonprotests/story/0,,1706729,00.html#article_continue

 

I don't either. But I see governments shutting down offensive websites as very scary. The key word is voluntary.

 

You are quite correct, sir. Like I said, as often the case, the wording is quite strong.

 

And I respect the way you stay out of the unfruitful discussions, and add sanity to the threads that veer. You set a great example.