![]() Meanwhile, Spain's leading newspaper El Pais has joined other European dailies by publishing a front-page cartoon of Prophet Muhammad.Įl Pais did not comment on the decision to publish the cartoon on its front page, which was accompanying front-page news about the angry reaction among Muslims over the republication of the cartoons that already riled the Muslim world when a Danish newspaper ran them in September. Islamic law, based on clerics' interpretation of the Koran and the sayings of the prophet, absolutely forbids depictions of the prophet Muhammad, even positive images, in order to prevent idolatry. The Jordanian weekly Shihan also printed three of the cartoons, saying it wanted to show readers "the extent of the Danish offence." ![]() In Paris, the Egyptian owner of the daily newspaper France Soir fired its managing editor after the paper published the caricatures. Protesters in Pakistan chanted "death to France" and "death to Denmark", and Iraqi Islamic leaders urged worshippers to stage demonstrations from Baghdad to the southern city of Basra following main weekly prayer services.Īfghanistan's president and Indonesia's foreign ministry condemned the cartoons and Iranian leaders summoned the Austrian ambassador, whose country holds the EU presidency, to protest against the depictions. The German was freed a short-time later after Palestinian police snared the gunmen, but the incident was just one of many that have sparked an exodus from the region by European diplomats and aid workers.Īngry Palestinians have threatened Europeans after several newspapers followed a Danish daily's lead and printed the controversial images. ![]() Palestinian gunmen burst into a West Bank hotel and kidnapped a young German and Gaza militants surrounded European headquarters as Muslim outrage at cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad intensified. The sheikh's campaign seems to be working, The Scotsman reports: (I guess an international Muslim boycott of Danish products wasn't angry enough.) That's what hard-line cleric Sheikh Yussef al-Qaradawi is calling for-to protest the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of cartoons, like the one above, depicting the prophet Mohammed. Here's a swell idea for you-an "international day of anger." | Hugh and cry » See ya in the funny papers, Mohammed
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