Echoes of the Danish Cartoon Crisis 10 Years Later: Identity, Injury and Intelligibility from Copenhagen to Paris and Texas
The tenth anniversary of the Danish cartoon crisis of 2005-06 invites reflection on its historical significance and contemporary relevance. In the Danish context 10 years ago, the events generated substantial debate about issues such as terrorism, immigration, blasphemy and the place of Islam in Den...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 2016, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-34 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia TK Recent history |
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Charlie Hebdo
B Danish cartoon crisis B Blasphemy B Immigration B Freedom of speech |
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| Summary: | The tenth anniversary of the Danish cartoon crisis of 2005-06 invites reflection on its historical significance and contemporary relevance. In the Danish context 10 years ago, the events generated substantial debate about issues such as terrorism, immigration, blasphemy and the place of Islam in Denmark and in the Danish folk. Furthermore, they raised complex questions about Danish identity in a society that had become significantly more religiously and culturally diverse in the preceding decades. Most of these questions, however, were eclipsed by the polarized public debate about free speech and religious respect. The year 2015 brought many of these questions back to the fore after the murders that January of 12 journalists at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and attacks at a kosher market in Paris, followed in February by shootings at a free speech event in Copenhagen and at a synagogue, and later attacks in May at a Muhammad cartoon contest exhibit in Garland, Texas. Despite their disparate contexts, these violent events have echoes of the original Danish cartoon crisis. This article suggests that the three concepts of identity, injury and intelligibility can together help to add complexity to popular interpretations of the original Danish cartoon crisis and recent related events, and prompt us to think beyond the dualistic categories of free speech and blasphemy. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9311 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2015.1114245 |