One Danish Imam behind the entire Danish cartoon jihad accepted “one-third” of the blame of the violent protests that were started after a contingent of Danish Imams traveled to the Middle East and took their cause to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a conference attended by the leaders of two nations where most of the violent protests have occured.

Ahmad Akkari, a 28-year-old Lebanese immigrant to Denmark, told The Associated Press his network was willing to accept one-third of the responsibility for the firestorm, if the government and the Danish paper that first published the drawings shared the rest.

“Let’s say we bear one-third of the responsibility. Could the other two parts not take their responsibility?” Akkari said in an interview at a mosque in northern Copenhagen.

He said the group, claiming to represent 27 Danish Muslim organizations, traveled to the Middle East because the Danish government would not listen to its concerns that the drawings were offensive.

“It wasn’t our intention, going to Cairo and Lebanon, to have these worldwide demonstrations,” Akkari said. “We wanted these two countries and their representatives to come with a voice to talk to Denmark, to help us in our case.”

The “two” nations in question are Lebanon, Egypt and Syria. An Egyptian newspaper actually published the cartoons months ago yet there were no burning embassies. Even though the group of Danish Imams went to Syria around the same time, it took further months before the story gained enough traction for some Muslims in Syria to run around and start throwing fire.

If that doesn’t suggest a planned event, I don’t know what does. I take that back. There was other planning, at least in Iran.

One of the embassy assailants describes his preparations for the attack in his personal web blog. He says the night before the attack, he and his friends used two cars and seven motorcycles to scout the Danish embassy and coordinated their efforts with the embassy guards. He also revealed that he and his “friends” carried gasoline tanks to the site and how they all planned to celebrate the event as a party. He specifically names Student Baseej (which is the student militia operating under the command of some official organization such as the Passdaran) to be knowledgeable in the plan and preparations and even help in the embassy attacks.

The embassy guards protecting the Danish embassy during a protest would be the Iranian military or police. So there’s another “third” not mentioned by Akkari.

As noted before, the most violent protests occured in Iran and Syria, both nations which prohibit protests of any kind. Protests for Democracy in Iran end up with the arrest of those involved, yet no news has surfaced concerning any arrests for the protestors involved even though one, claiming to be a reporter for the Mehr News Agency, describes his involvement on his blog.

He is proud to be the only reporter who had been able to enter the Danish embassy. He explains how he left everything behind to be completely available to attack the embassy and excitingly depicts how he climbed the security walls of the Danish embassy compound.

Meanwhile Danish politicians are seeking an investigation into the Danish Imams’ involvement in the Cartoon Jihad, an investigation long overdue. That is unless you were to throw out the three non-published cartoons including one of a game show contestant wearing a pig snout and then base complaints solely on the Imams refusal to work with Jyllands-Posten. The Danish government refused to listen to the group because the group wanted censorship of these cartoons, and possibly arrests. That isn’t how it works in a society with freedom of speech and a free press. Instead the group decided to take their grievance to a more sympathetic ear and the results have been well documented. While one Danish Imam takes “one-third” of the responsibility, the other two-thirds are for their ignorance of how a free society works.

Speaking of the cartoons, protests and Denmark, not all Danish Muslims are against the publishing of the cartoons. Some are in favor of the broader freedom of speech issue, an issue in which several people don’t seem to understand.