Denmark tries to curb cartoon anger
DANISH Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed alarm today at the wave of anger in the Muslim world prompted by caricatures in a Danish newspapper depicting the prophet Mahommed.
“Our diplomats are currently attempting to repair the misunderstandings that have surfaced,” he said.
Meanwhile, Muslim leaders in Denmark called for a more conciliatory tone from the Muslim world, saying the row had gone too far.He said his government considered the growing dispute “extremely serious”.
“We have from the beginning said that these drawings are making Muslims angry and hurt. But we honestly never thought that this case would develop to the point where Danish products in the Middle East are being threatened to this extent,” Ahmed Abu Laban, a prominent imam in Denmark’s Muslim community, said in a statement.
Update:
The Danish defence ministry says a fatwa appears to have been issued against Danish soldiers stationed in Iraq.
“I can confirm that we’ve heard about the fatwa from a reliable source in Iraq … so we believe it’s true,” Defence Minister Soeren Gade’s spokesman Jacob Winther said. The fatwa comes as the offices of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that have caused uproar across the Muslim world, had to be evacuated due to a bomb threat.
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i cannot agree as a mouslim for any person to be injuried specally your soldiers as god and our prophit muhamed ordered only for peace although i can see that your soldiers are in the wrong place in iraq i am a gyncologist living in cairo-egypt please let us respect and give love to each other giving all respect to the believes and religions.
Comment by dr. mahmoud elsawy — February 1, 2006 @ 3:22 am