Danish Affairs

ABU DHABI. 27-year old Danish filmmaker Anders Boetter describes himself as an atheist. Despite his openly declared religious disbelief he travels to Abu Dhabi tomorrow - on a trip financed by Arab petro-dollars to receive a nomination for an Islamic culture prize.

The danish atheist´s achievement consists of creating the danish Facebook group ‘Undskyld Muhammed’ (’Sorry Mohammad’) which attracted 8.600 members - and attention from some Middle East cultural committee. The “Sorry Mohammad” group expresses sympathy towards the Islamic reactions to the Danish Mohammad drawings.

Assassination plans has been discovered against one of the drawers, Kurt Westergaard. And other cartoonists have also received death threats.

Ironic it may seem that an enlightened human being is being nominated for an Islamic culture prize. Even more ironic it is that Anders Boetter isn´t aware of the fact that he is just another useful idiot being manipulated and used by enemies of the Western world.

By the way - the antagonistic Facebook group ‘Ingen undskyldninger, til Muhammed’ (’No apologizing to Mohammad’) has got 11.000 members.

Nyhedsavisen [in danish]

Anders Boetter on MySpace