Mick Hartley

Muslims demonstrate in Copenhagen against the reprinting of the Muhammed cartoons:

All major Danish newspapers decided to republish it after Danish intelligence said it had uncovered a plot to kill one of the cartoonists.

Protestors marched in the capital’s streets shouting “God is Great!” and “Freedom of speech is like a plague!”.

Many carried the black and white flags of Hizb ut-Tahrir – the radical Islamic party that calls for the creation of a caliphate.

Earlier, at Friday prayers, Danish Muslims from many backgrounds expressed frustration that one of the cartoons they find so offensive could have been printed again.

Many said they simply could not understand the motive unless it was hatred for Islam.

But the overwhelming mood was not so much anger but weary resignation; a sense that they have been through this crisis once before and nothing has been learnt.

Nothing has been learnt. Ain’t that the truth.