This is great. A group of 27 Danish Muslim organizations have filed a defamation lawsuit against Jyllands Posten over the Muhammed cartoons.

The lawsuit was filed Wednesday, two weeks after Denmark’s top prosecutor declined to press criminal charges, saying the drawings that sparked a firestorm in the Muslim world did not violate laws against racism or blasphemy.

Michael Christiani Havemann, a lawyer representing the Muslim groups, said lawsuit sought $16,100 in damages from Jyllands-Posten Editor in Chief Carsten Juste and Culture Editor Flemming Rose, who supervised the cartoon project.

“We’re seeking judgment for both the text and the drawings which were gratuitously defamatory and injurious,” Havemann said.

If Muslim groups are genuinly concerned about the reputation of Islam following the publication of the cartoons, we should expect to see prosecutions in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere.

(via The Melon Farmers)

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