A quote from UN rapporteur Doudou Diéne in a special UN report (not yet officially released):

[...] The Danish government’s first reaction – refusing to take an official position on the nature and publication of the cartoons while referring to Freedom of Speech as well as refusing to meet with the ambassadors from the Muslim countries – is symptomatic not only of the political trivialisation of Islamophobia but also, due to its consequences, of the central role those politically responsible have for the national extent and the international consequences in the shape of demonstrations and expressions of Islamophobia. [...]

The author of this report cannot help wondering to what political and ideological national context the publication of the caricatures belongs, and what the position of the Danish government is. This context is primarily colored by an agreement reached on 8 December 2005 between the government and the Danish People’s Party, an extremist right-wing party, to tighten the conditions for achieving citizenship in a country whose immigration policies are considered among Europe’s most restrictive. [...]

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