Arab News: "Shock and Dismay" at the Guardian

This is from another opinion piece about the cartoons in the Arab News. The title is "Republishing Cartoons Is Stupid and Offensive":

By coincidence I was visiting The Guardian’s head office in London on Tuesday and had the chance to sit in on their morning editorial conference where the story-lineup for the next day’s issue was being discussed.

A Canadian journalist who works for the paper brought up the cartoons at the meeting, and suggested quite strongly that The Guardian reprint the cartoons in solidarity with the Danish paper and to support freedom of expression.

I’m happy to report that she received looks of shock and dismay from most at the meeting, who I think rightly believed that reprinting the cartoons would have only added fuel to the fire and unnecessarily offended Muslims for no obvious gain.

The piece is divided into sections discussing different topics. In one section the author, Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, explains why Spielberg's Munich is "Zionist propaganda."

Tags: cartoons, Prophet-cartoons, Denmark, Munich