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Blasphemy Day is celebrated on September 30 to coincide with the anniversary of the 2005 publication of satirical drawings of Muhammad in one of Denmark's newspapers, resulting in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis, Danish: Muhammed-krisen) [1] began after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve editorial cartoons on 30 September 2005 depicting Muhammad, the leader of Islam, in what it said was a response to the debate over criticism of Islam and self-censorship.
Blasphemy was proscribed speech in the U.S. until well into the 20th century. [7] Blasphemy laws were abolished in England and Wales in 2008, and in Ireland in 2020. Scotland repealed its blasphemy laws in 2021. Many other countries have abolished blasphemy laws including Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland, Norway and New Zealand. [9]
The day after that protest, ... While freedom of speech has long been a constitutional right in Sweden and Denmark, the scrapping of blasphemy laws was a more recent development. Sweden abolished ...
[26] [27] In 2012, a survey indicated that 66% of Denmark's population still supported the blasphemy law, which made it illegal to "mock legal religions and faiths in Denmark". [ 6 ] [ 8 ] Before 2017, abolition of the blasphemy clause was proposed several times by members of the parliament, but failed to win a majority vote. [ 28 ]
On New Year’s Day, Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II announced that she would step down as monarch on January 14, 2024. FYI, the royal, 83, has ruled for over five decades. In a surprise video ...
The flying of all flags (including the Danish national flag) by the general public was banned in 1833 (effectively 1834) [26] during the absolute monarchy of Denmark; this ban was later loosened in 1854 [27] to allow foreign ambassadors to fly their own national flags from their residences as well as allowing anyone to fly the Danish civil flag.
If the demands are not met, they will urge an official boycott of Danish goods and the cutting off of oil exports of 159,000 barrels per day (25,300 m 3 /d), in association with other GCC members. Hamas leader Adnan Asfour demands that Denmark punish the twelve artists and Jyllands-Posten. [34]