icelanders protest terrorist label

Standing in front of her net curtains, a half-eaten pancake on one side and a bottle of washing-up liquid on the other, no one could possibly confuse the bespectacled Icelandic lady with Osama bin Laden. But just to ram the point home, she brandishes a handmade sign: “I’m not a terrorist!” Accompanying the petition is a series of portraits of Icelanders holding up their own protestations of innocence. There is the family posing in front of their skiing photos in matching brown and cream knitted jumpers, reassuring “Darling Brown. We are not terrorists but terribly nice and friendly”. And there’s the blonde toddler. “What did you call me?” she asks, midway through devouring a bowl of ice cream. Then there are the off-the-wall defences (“I’m too handsome to be a terrorist,” beams the blond-haired, blue-eyed footballer) and the ironic admissions of guilt. With Islamic terrorists so yesterday, one craggy-faced fisherman has stamped “Icelandic Terrorist” on to his orange overalls. – Claire Soares, Independent

and here is the petition, though I don’t see any video there yet:
http://indefence.is/