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### Viewing cable 06COPENHAGEN1327, CARTOON ANNIVERSARY: DANISH PAPER DECIDES AGAINST

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06COPENHAGEN1327 | 2006-09-29 08:08 | 2010-12-27 21:09 | SECRET//NOFORN | Embassy Copenhagen

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    S E C R E T COPENHAGEN 001327

    SIPDIS

    NOFORN
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/27/2016
    TAGS: PREL PHUM PTER DA
    SUBJECT: CARTOON ANNIVERSARY: DANISH PAPER DECIDES AGAINST
    REPRINTING MOHAMMED DRAWINGS

    Classified By: Ambassador James P. Cain, reasons 1.4b,d

    ¶1. (S/NF) Summary: To mark the one-year anniversary this
    weekend of its publication of Mohammed cartoons, the Danish
    daily "Jyllands-Posten" weighed, but ultimately decided
    against reprinting the caricatures, at least so soon after
    the controversy stirred by the Pope's speech. Our discreet
    discussions with the paper and with senior Danish government
    officials underscore both how close we came to another
    potential crisis and how much the defense of free speech and
    domestic political calculations remain paramount for the
    government and for many Danes. End summary.

    Another Cartoon Crisis Averted
    ------------------------------

    ¶2. (S/NF) Post's public affairs counselor learned from a
    "Jyllands-Posten" journalist (strictly protect) last week
    that the paper was considering several options to commemorate
    the cartoons' first anniversary September 30, including
    re-publishing the original cartoons or running new ones on
    the subject. The paper,s fiery cultural editor, Flemming
    Rose, had recently resumed his job, after several months in
    the U.S., and was reportedly pushing for re-publication. The
    Ambassador called Prime Minister Rasmussen's national
    security advisor, Bo Lidegaard, to ask if this was true and
    to find out how the government was going to handle the issue.
    If we believed the paper was going to re-publish the
    cartoons, the Ambassador stressed, we would need to notify
    our government and help prepare our embassies around the
    world for possible reaction. Lidegaard was clearly surprised
    by the question, stunned that the paper would consider such
    provocation.

    ¶3. (S/NF) In a subsequent conversation with the Ambassador
    September 26, Lidegaard confirmed that "Jyllands-Posten" was
    weighing a second run of the cartoons but indicated that the
    government did not want to get directly involved in the
    matter. So sensitive was the issue, Lidegaard told the
    Ambassador confidentially, that the prime minister's office
    had made a conscious decision not to alert the foreign
    ministry or the intelligence services. (RAO's sounding of a
    senior intelligence official days earlier suggested that the
    service was not paying any attention to the looming
    anniversary.) Furthermore, Lidegaard explicitly warned
    against any attempt by us to openly influence the paper's
    decision, which, if made public, the prime minister would
    have to condemn, he said. Lidegaard agreed, however, that no
    harm would come from a straightforward query from us to
    "Jyllands-Posten" about their plans.

    ¶4. (S/NF) With that, the Ambassador telephoned
    "Jyllands-Posten" editor-in-chief Carsten Juste, and asked
    straight out about his paper's intentions for commemorating
    the anniversary. Juste told the Ambassador that he and his
    team had been considering re-publication, but concluded that
    such a move would be unwise, especially so soon after the
    controversy caused by the Pope's Regensburg remarks. The
    Ambassador welcomed this news, noting that none of us wanted
    a repeat of the crisis earlier this year. Lidegaard was
    demonstrably relieved when the Ambassador reported this
    exchange a short time later.

    How Could It Happen Again?
    --------------------------

    ¶5. (C) For all the shock of the cartoon crisis and Denmark's
    heightened sensitivity to the Islamic world's concerns and
    the challenges of better integrating its own 200,000-strong
    Muslim population, there are still a lot of Danes who welcome
    confrontation with those they consider extremists and oppose
    any sign of retreat on core values such as free speech. The
    anti-immigration Danish People's Party, which votes with the
    government coalition, may be the most vocal on the subject
    (as well as the party that gained the most politically from
    the crisis). There are also many within the governing
    Liberal and Conservative parties who remain highly motivated
    in defense of free speech and Western culture. More broadly,
    Danes are conflicted, if not divided, recognizing the
    challenges posed by radical Islam to traditional Danish
    values but holding fast to their image of themselves as
    committed to tolerance and multiculturalism.

    ¶6. (C) In the wake of the cartoon crisis, free speech has
    become, more than ever before, a "third rail" issue in Danish
    politics. Even the government's principal rivals cannot
    bring themselves to fault the prime minister for more than
    tactical missteps in his handling of the crisis, while
    Rasmussen himself remains convinced that a firm,
    no-concessions approach in defense of free speech is the

    winning course. A poll published September 28 shows that a
    year later, despite the worldwide violence attributed to
    their publication, 46.7 percent of Danes support the original
    decision to publish the cartoons. A popular book published
    earlier this month, "Islamists and Naivists," written by two
    prominent Danish commentators, sees the cartoon crisis as
    part of the overall threat to Western values from Islamic
    radicalism. PM Rasmussen continues to view the cartoon issue
    first and foremost as a domestic political issue, certainly
    more aware of the international implications but no more
    inclined to put them before the reaction at home.

    ¶7. (C/NF) When, then, the newspaper that ignited Denmark's
    worst foreign policy crisis in sixty years essentially
    threatened to do it all over again, the prime minister
    apparently concluded that the potential costs of being seen
    to intervene against free speech outweighed even the risk of
    another uproar. The Danish government might not have been
    able to dissuade the paper's editors in any case; one could
    also argue that another such provocation is inevitable. It
    seems clear from this episode, though, that Rasmussen's first
    priority was to stay on the right side of the free speech
    issue and avoid any suggestion of concession.

    Comment
    -------

    ¶8. (C/NF) Comment: This episode illustrates that the Danes
    have drawn mixed lessons from their experience in the cartoon
    crisis. These lessons have positive and negative
    implications for the U.S. On the good side, the Danes have
    stepped up engagement in promotion of democracy and reform
    abroad, especially in the Middle East. They now recognize
    the need to improve integration and outreach to the country's
    immigrant communities. Since the cartoon crisis, they have
    extended troop mandates in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the
    negative side, though, this popular center-right government
    has hardened its views on the absolute primacy of free
    speech. The prime minister appeared willing to let
    Jyllands-Posten dictate the timing of the next Islam vs. West
    confrontation without question or open discussion within the
    government. While this particularly vulnerable moment of the
    cartoon anniversary may pass without violence, our
    discussions this past week remind us that the Danish front in
    what they see as a clash of civilizations could reopen at any
    time.

    CAIN

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