The Political Iconography of Muhammad Cartoons: Understanding Cultural Conflict and Political Action
The controversy over the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons that swept the globe at the beginning of 2006 was arguably the second major event after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that brought “Muslims” as a group of political actors to the forefront of international politics. T...
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| Vydáno v: | PS, political science & politics Ročník 40; číslo 2; s. 287 - 291 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York, USA
Cambridge University Press
01.04.2007
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| ISSN: | 1049-0965, 1537-5935 |
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| Shrnutí: | The controversy over the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons
that swept the globe at the beginning of 2006 was arguably the second
major event after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that brought
“Muslims” as a group of political actors to the forefront of
international politics. The crisis was sparked in late September 2005, by
the publication of political cartoons, depicting Islamic prophet Muhammad,
in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. While the original cause
of controversy was limited to a small country in northern Europe,
political actions spread worldwide, ranging from peaceful protests to
diplomatic sanctions to consumer boycotts, and finally to open violence
against anything symbolizing “the West.” The levels of
political action were muddled, and responsibilities as well as the
potential to act were confused. Almost all of the actors involved in the
controversy were left without an appropriate counterpart to address. For
example, the Arab League and Muslim organizations blamed the Danish
government for the publication of the cartoons, and for not taking action
against the independent publisher of Jyllands-Posten. Enraged
Muslim citizens of countries as geographically distant as Lebanon, Sudan,
and Indonesia attacked and ransacked Danish embassies, and threatened
anyone coming from a country belonging to the European Union. The editors
of several newspapers—e.g., in France and Jordan—who had
decided to reprint the cartoons either in an act of journalistic
solidarity with Jyllands-Posten or to inform their Muslim
readership about the cartoons, were fired. And, terrorist group Al Qaeda
put the editor and cartoonists of Jyllands-Posten, as well as all
of Denmark, at the top of its target list. The diplomatic fallout from the
cartoon publication was enormous and has severely shattered relations
between European and Arab countries. Despite the enormity of the event,
the question of how the publication of 12 cartoons in Denmark could lead
to a global crisis that dominated the news and kept diplomats and
politicians on alert for more than three months remains unanswered. |
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| Bibliografie: | istex:9F5A3E0EE1703F52CA9E37B412F0C40DAEBDF949 PII:S104909650707045X ark:/67375/6GQ-TSBPK0CN-5 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 14 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-2 |
| ISSN: | 1049-0965 1537-5935 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S104909650707045X |