Rushy Rashid
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Rushy Rashid Rashid
As a Danish citizen of Pakistani descent, a onetime television anchor, and now a prominent author married to a Dane, Rushy Rashid has led what could be depicted as a high-profile life. She said nothing forced her to define her attitude to fellow Muslims quite so much as Denmark's bitter dispute with much of the Islamic world over a newspaper's decision to print unflattering cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Her sentiments reflected the nuances of immigrant societies across Europe, where the cartoons have produced raw anger among some and more complex feelings among others. At the same time, she felt pulled to the argument of those who published the cartoons, that this was an issue of Denmark's vaunted freedom of expression, which has been possibly the most entrenched in Europe.