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For Danish Firms, Boycott in Mideast a 'Nightmare'
A Palestinian child holds the Koran at a Gaza City protest against the Muhammad cartoons. A West Bank merchant said the boycott has also involved the young: "Little children come to the store and ask if this is a Danish product."
(By Ahmed Jadallah -- Reuters)
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"Maybe the government acted too late -- we all did," Pedersen said. "We were all very surprised about how quickly this situation developed. I can't fault the government's efforts now. But Denmark cannot do this alone, and it will not only be Denmark that suffers."
Pedersen said the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which first published the Muhammad cartoons, "should have been more careful."
"Everyone has the right to freedom of speech, but you can't cry 'Fire! Fire!' in a cinema," he said. "But it's always easier to see these things after they have happened."
Pedersen said he is pessimistic that his company's Middle Eastern market, which it has been building for 25 years, will fully recover.
"I don't think it will ever be the same again," he said. "The consumers won't forget."
Special correspondents Alexandra Topping in London and Sufian Taha in Beit Hanina contributed to this report.
