So Where Does One Get a Danish Flag in the Gaza Strip?
Quick recap - back in September of '05, a newspaper in Denmark published some cartoons that were less than flattering to Islam. Much of the Arab world has been working itself into a lather ever since. Arab nations have recalled ambassadors and launched boycotts. And, of course, protestors in Arab countries have burned the Danish flag:
I can't really tell because of all the fiery cultural intolerance going on there, but Reuters assures us (pic #4) that these are Shia clerics in Baghdad burning the Danish flag.
My question is, where did they get the damn flag? It's not like there's Rand McNally stores that carry them out there. Did they somehow get it from the Danish embassy? Get it FedExed in?
And, even if Baghdad does happen to have a big "We Lov Denmark Stuf!" boutique, how hard must it have been to find and burn Danish flags in the Gaza Strip, as this report notes?
And even if they have one there, where did Gaza's Islamic Jihad get the presumably Danish poster that they're destroying here?
I remember that, some years ago, someone asked the reasonable question: "where do Palestinians get the American flags that they burn in their 'spontaneous demonstrations'"? An unpleasant theory was involved: that American media crews would supply the flags, in order to have something to photograph and videotape. This would be a great question for some enterprising blogger or reporter to track down: how exactly do you get Danish stuff in the Middle East?
1 Comments:
In Gaza, I think that it is like it is most European cities where you have vendors selling cheap knock offs. “My friend. My Friend. You want a flag to burn in protest. Your picture in many American paper. British flag only 2 American dollar, or Mexican flag for 30 cents.” They look like the real thing, but don’t meet regulation standards. For instance, the blue on the French flag might be 2 inches too short. It is the difference between Prada and Prado.
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