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The Mohammed Cartoons Oil conspiracy

Thursday February 09th 2006, 9:12 pm
Filed under: Newspapers

Newspaperindex.com brings you the final truth about the Mohammed Cartoons, and it is all about money, power and yes - oil.

So you thought the Mohammed Cartoons were all about freedom of speech? You are so wrong. Or so at least the newest conspiracy theories from around the Internet indicates. I stress that this is not journalism, I do not believe a word about it, but the story is too good to be untold. Here it is:

Jyllands-Posten, the paper that ordered the drawings of Mohammed, has since 2003 been owned by an organization called JP/Politikens Hus. The CEO here Merete Eldrup is married to the CEO of DONG, Anders Eldrup, a leading danish energy supply company with interests in oilfields in the North sea, gas and electricity throughout Northern Europe. DONG is also working on pipelines in the North sea with companies like Shell and Texaco. Since 1980 DONG has imported oil from Saudi Arabia. Now the thing is that DONG is about to go public, and the IPO is expected in 2007. This raises a couple of questions:
What would be more convenient for DONG at this moment than an international oil crisis or reduced oil supplies from the Gulf?
What would be more convenient for Jyllands-Posten than a story that all newspapers, TV-stations, blogs and magazines would quote?
How could these two things be accomplished at the same time, and who could be the masterminds behind the plan?

Do the math and remember - you saw it first at blog.newspaperindex.com. Another conspiracy that is less far fetched says:

“In January of this year the most important Muslim religious festival took place in Saudi Arabia.

There were a number of stampedes that killed several hundred pilgrims. The Saudi government every year promises to improve security and facilitation of movement to avoid these. Over 251 pilgrims were killed during the 2004 Hajj alone in the same area as the one that killed 350 pilgrims in 2006. These were not unavoidable accidents, they were the results of poor planning by the Saudi government.

This was a huge story in the Muslim world. Even the most objective news stories were suddenly casting Saudi Arabia in a very bad light and they decided to do something about it.

Their plan was to go on a major offensive against the Danish cartoons (that had been published in egytian newspapers months before). The 350 pilgrims were killed on the 12th January and soon after, Saudi newspapers (which are all controlled by the state) began running up to 4 articles per day condemning the Danish cartoons (the Saudi rule might have been helped by their US based PR partner Qorvis Communications that brought you the pro-saudi campaings after 9/11)…. Link to more on this story“

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