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Podcast about the effects of the cartoon conflict in your own country. Podcasts in the  native language, translation thereunder.

Switzerland
I’m Anita from Switzerland. In my country the medias informed about the whole cartoon conflict and there was a public discussion about. Later the company “Nestlé” took profit out of the boycott of Danish products in the Arabic world. They made publicity for Swiss products in Saudi-Arabia with the following statement on posters: “We are Swiss, not Danish!”

Macedonia
I`m Saschko from Macedonia.I learned about the cartoons from TV news. There wasn`t any significant reaction to it, nor it were published in any of other daily news papers.It was just a news from the world.

Sweden
My name is Magnus. I am from Sweden. I can say that it was very sensitive situation for the Swedish politicians, media and public couse we got very good relations with Denmark. In the other hand we don`t wan`t to get in the conflict with Muslims. So politicians handed it very diplomatic. There was no newspaper that republished all of the cartoons, but there was one major newspaper that republished a few of them to inform their readers what they were writing about.

Germany
I’m Jona from Germany. In Germany there was on one hand a big discussion about where the borders of freedom of press are in the field of religion and on the other hand there was a fear of the Moslems who live in Germany that they would be accused because of the story.

Poland
I´m Anna from Poland. There was only one newspaper in Poland that reprinted the cartoons. It was “…”. All the media were discussing about it but without reprinting them. There was some protests in front of the embassy of Denmark afterwards.

Spain
I am Alejandro. In Spain we had realized that it has been a lot of controversy in almost every European country. But in my country it was not so controversial. There were a lot of opinions and information in the media.

Russia
My name is Kirill, I am from Russia and I will tell you about the controversial about the cartoons in my country. There were many discussions about them in mass media but the most important was that in one town in Russia a newspaper was closed for three days. It was closed because one of the cartoons was reprinted. After three days it was reopened with a new name but the same content.

Austria
I am Teresa from Austria. In Austria there were not many reactions on the cartoon issue. They were republished in newspapers but there were not as many protests as all over the world.

Hungary
I am Robert. In Hungary the topic was subject of intellectual discussions but is hasn’t become a topic of public debate. No harsh opinions have been born. I see the main reasons for that that there is no considerable Muslim minority in Hungary and therefore the issue wasn’t so important.

Armenia
I am Anna from Armenia. I will tell you about the cartoon conflict. In Armenia there wasn’t a big discussion about them because two of our neighbour countries are Muslim (Turkey and Uzbekistan) and we had a conflict with them. We have one more neighbour which is a Muslim country (Iran) and we don’t want to have a conflict with them. People in Armenia said that it is not freedom if someone laughs at your religion.

France
I am Emmanuel from France. The main event in our country on the caroon controversy was the cover of weekly magazine which has drawn the prophet Mohammed hiding his face with his hands and saying that it is not easy to be loved by silly people. So this provocation caused a lot of reactions among the Muslim community. They attacked in process that newspaper which is taken as a symbol of freedom and liberty in our country.

Moldova
I am Viorica from Moldova. In my country this case was not presented in the mass media to a large extent. Why? Maybe because we don’t have a big number of Muslims living in Moldova or maybe it can be because mass media from Moldova had more important issues or maybe it was connected to freedom of speech in our country.



Grzegorz Miecznikowski (Poland), Philip Geisler (Germany), Anita Kupper (Switzerland)