Uma equipa dinamarquesa à qual falta colorido

Le Danemark concourt avec une équipe nordique banale et bien organisée, sans plus. L'Allemagne, en revanche, montre une nouvelle génération fantastique de joueurs, pleine de talent. Et les deux équipes reflètent la situation politique de leurs pays respectifs. Car même si certains d'entre nous peuvent éprouver une certaine sympathie pour la lutte des Danois contre l'expertocratie, il est indéniable que le Danemark a connu une vague de xénophobie déplaisante au cours des années 2000. Une grande partie de la société danoise a en effet la conviction provinciale et mesquine que les Arabes et les musulmans sont tout simplement incapables de s'intégrer. Une attitude aussi défensive que fataliste. [...]

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Jornal dinamarquês Politiken pede desculpa pela publicação dos cartoons

Danish newspaper enters deal with organisations and offers apology for offending them with images of the Prophet Mohammed Politiken newspaper, one of 11 Danish newspapers that reprinted the Mohammed cartoons, has issued an apology to eight Muslim organisations for offending...

Opposition leaders Helle-Thorning Schmidt of the Social Democrats and Villy Søvndal of the Socialist People’s Party called the move ‘outrageous’ and said deals should not be done involving freedom of speech.

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Após a controvérsia dos cartoons dinamarqueses

On February 5, 2006, at the height of the tension following the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, Muslim protesters torched Denmark's embassies in Beirut and Damascus. While many in the West looked on with bewilderment, protests spread across the Muslim world, and stores in Muslim areas removed Danish products from their shelves. Even as the cartoon crisis captured headlines around the world, most people outside Denmark remain unfamiliar with the forces propelling it. Like the Salman Rushdie affair before it and the furor over Pope Benedict XVI's remarks at Regensburg University after it, the cartoon controversy had less to do with genuine outrage over the depiction of Islam's prophet and more to do with the ambitions, first, of a small group of radical imams and, later, of jousting Middle Eastern powers. Now that the dust has settled, what is the legacy of the crisis, not only for Denmark but also for the Western world? [...]

Ver artigo no The Middle East Quarterly