Mohammed Cartoon Editor Sees 'Clash of Cultures' Underway

Washington - "Islamic criticism directed against newspapers' decisions to publish cartoons depicting Mohammed stemmed from hypocritical reasoning and anti-democratic attitudes, the editor at the center of the row said on Wednesday.

To suggest that newspaper editors should have anticipated the intense reaction to the cartoons is hypocritical and disingenuous, Flemming Rose, cultural editor of the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, told a forum at Georgetown University.

The same Muslims who raise this point, he said, are working to impose their own set of taboos on societies where those taboos are not traditionally observed.

'For the first time ever in recorded history, Muslims have insisted on applying Islamic law to non-Muslims in non Muslim countries,' Rose said." More...