Appeasing or Submission


An EU speech code to avoid "offending" Muslims

Not even sure what to say about this.

Plans for a European press charter committing the media to "prudence" when reporting on Islam and other religions, were unveiled yesterday.

Franco Frattini, the European Union commissioner for justice, freedom and security, revealed the idea for a code of conduct in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. Mr Frattini, a former Italian foreign minister, said the EU faced the "very real problem" of trying to reconcile "two fundamental freedoms, the freedom of expression and the freedom of religion".

Millions of European Muslims felt "humiliated" by the publication of cartoons of Mohammed, he added, calling on journalists and media chiefs to accept that "the exercising of a right is always the assumption of a responsibility". He appealed to European media to agree to "self-regulate".

Accepting such self-regulation would send an important political message to the Muslim world, Mr Frattini said.

The only message this is going to send is that the EU won't stand up for it's own principles. It invites escalation. Gods, have they forgotten their own history? You can't pay the Danegeld, it only leads to further atrocities.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - February 10, 2006 at 08:07 AM  Tag


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