The cartoons that shook the world / Jytte Klausen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klausen, Jytte.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Caricatures and cartoons.

Muḥammad.

Morgenavisen jyllands-posten.

Caricatures and cartoons--Political aspects--Denmark.

Caricatures and cartoons.

Muslims--Denmark--Politics and government--21st century.

Muslims.

Protest movements--Denmark--History--21st century.

Protest movements.

Caricatures and cartoons--Political aspects--Islamic countries.

Christianity and other religions--Islam--Case studies.

Christianity and other religions.

Blasphemy (Islam)--Case studies.

Blasphemy (Islam).

Denmark--Relations--Islamic countries.

Denmark.

Islamic countries--Relations--Denmark.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Five months later, thousands of Muslims inundated the newspaper with outpourings of anger and grief by phone, email, and fax; from Asia to Europe Muslims took to the streets in protest. This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the conflict that aroused impassioned debates around the world on freedom of expression, blasphemy, and the nature of modern Islam. Jytte Klausen interviewed politicians in the Middle East, Muslim leaders in Europe, the Danish editors and cartoonists, and the Danish imam who started the controversy. Following the winding trail of protests across the world, she deconstructs the arguments and motives that drove the escalation of the increasingly globalized conflict. She concludes that the Muslim reaction to the cartoons was not-as was commonly assumed-a spontaneous emotional reaction arising out of the clash of Western and Islamic civilizations. Rather it was orchestrated, first by those with vested interests in elections in Denmark and Egypt, and later by Islamic extremists seeking to destabilize governments in Pakistan, Lebanon, Libya, and Nigeria. Klausen shows how the cartoon crisis was, therefore, ultimately a political conflict rather than a colossal cultural misunderstanding.

Contents:

The editors and the cartoonists

The path to a showdown

The diplomatic protest against the cartoons

Muslims' "day of rage"

Seeking the third way

Muslim iconoclasm and Christian blasphemy

Danish intolerance and foreign relations

The freedom agenda rebound

Chronology.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-219) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300155068

0300155069

OCLC:

811405715