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Showing posts with label Tolerance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tolerance. Show all posts

2/12/2008

Assassination Attempt thwarted

In Denmark people were arrested who allegedly wanted to kill a cartoonist. The cartoons had been a reason for demonstrations in Arabia in the spring of 2006 , where about 100 people were killed.
Source: Welt Online.

It is 160 years since people used to duell in Germany because of personal insults, for example Fürst Bismarck.

In March 1852, so ten years before Bismarck's time as prime minister, it was in the 2nd Prussian Chamber. Bismarck, then MP, and Mr Georg von Hagen Vincke (1811-1875), son of the famous first President of the province of Upper Westphalia, came in a offensive heated verbal exchange. Vincke then sent on the following day Bismarck a claim for guns with four bullets. Bismarck reported in a letter dated 14 April 1852 to his own mother about it.
In this pistol duel Carl acted as a secondary and pleaded for a four balls, a duel with four Jump shot in the circumstances was too hard. As a result, he may have saved Bismarck's lives. After the first shot of the two duelists were unsuccessful, the duel was brought to an end.
Source: Wikipedia

What I will say, the right to freedom of expression is one thing, but there is too a responsibility not to hurt other people's feelings and to respect that each culture has a right to change their views in their own time pace to arrive at certain insensitivity.

We Germans struggled for religious questions somewhat bloody strictly speaking, if you take for example the 'Kulturkampf'. Catholics and Protestants nearly banged in their heads. We Germans needed our own time to a moderate attitude towards religion.

Update:
Quelle: 14.02.08 Danish newspapers print caricature as a sign of solidarity, Iran protests.