To the Daily:
I would like to clarify one of my comments reported in James Bologna's otherwise excellent article about Monday night's panel on the Danish cartoon controversy ("Panelists address cartoon controversy, media responsibility," Mar. 14, 2006).
I never stated that Jyllands Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons, had supported Nazi actions during World War II.
A small, provincial newspaper at the time, it did praise Mussolini when he came to power in the 1920s and defended Kristallnacht - the infamous Nazi attacks on Jewish synagogues and shops - in 1938, definitely showing some fascist sympathies. But that was before the war and the German invasion of Denmark.
In recent years, the newspaper has had an anti-immigrant agenda and is viewed by many as supportive of the right-wing, anti-immigrant Danish Peoples Party.
Neil MillerEnglish Lecturer, Tufts University
