The "Sorry Mohammed" Contest

Calling all Infidels, let's fall all over ourselves to find out who can say "sorry" in the most appropriate way.

"Mohammed, I'm so sorry that I dropped you in a jar of urine."

Some pussy named Anders Boetter (is that pronouned "beater" by any chance?) has initiated a new campaign on Facebook to offer up the apology of all apologies in the wake of the re-emergence of the dread drawings of blasphemy:

The controversy in Denmark over the reprinting of one of the 12 cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad this week has triggered an unusual dialogue on social networking group Facebook, writes the BBC's religious affairs correspondent Frances Harrison.

The row began with Tuesday's arrests of three Muslims in Denmark said by the intelligence services to be plotting to kill one of the cartoonists.

All the major Danish newspapers next day rallied round their colleague, reprinting his drawing of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban as a sign of solidarity.

"Mohammed, I'm so sorry I could shit."

But now young Danish student Anders Boetter says he has decided to start a Facebook site called Sorry Muhammad to apologise to Muslims on behalf of ordinary Danes and also give them a voice in the controversy over the row.

Anders says that in the last two years since the first printing of the cartoons, the media has built up a debate which is very black-and-white.

"Either you were for the Muhammad drawings or you were against it, but I believe there are many Danes who do not feel that way - they're somewhere in between and I am one of them," he explains.

"I am myself an atheist, but I do respect any kind of religion," he says, adding that the cartoons therefore do not offend him but he understands that it "hurts the feelings of Muslims a lot".

During the first cartoon crisis in 2006, Anders says he e-mailed his Muslim friends around the world to apologise.

When all the major newspapers reprinted the cartoon on Wednesday he felt there needed to be a reaction from what he calls "everyday Danish citizens".

"What does hurt my feelings is when a Danish newspaper publishes these very mocking cartoons of Muhammad.

"For me this is not a matter of a drawing but the mocking of one of our minority groups in Denmark and that's a big problem. That is why I apologise for being a Dane coming from Denmark," Anders explains.

In the first 24 hours, more than 1,000 people joined the Sorry Muhammad network.

Anders' goal is to collect 10,000 members in 14 days - which would be a significant feat since the total number of Danes on Facebook is 300,000 so far.

He calls the response "shockingly fast" but admits that he has also received some hostile e-mails.

One says: "If you have no brains at all, move to Iran you stupid ****," while another reads: "I hope you know what it's like to have someone plotting to kill you."

"Mo, I'm so sorry I wiped my ass with your holy book. It is soft as Charmin though."

"Perhaps you can expect this when you start mingling with national feelings," Anders says calmly.