By Judith Apter Klinghoffer
Copenhagen suffers 5 nights of "youth" riots. A JP photographer is injured. Fire fighters are stoned and police has to use tear gas and arrest rioters. It seems to follow the French pattern. In the meantime, the placard wording demonstrates determination to avoid past excess but it is the exception rather than the rule.
KARACHI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Chanting "Death to the cartoonist", dozens of Islamist students burned the Danish flag in southern Pakistan on Thursday after the republication of a caricature of Prophet Mohammad.
In Kuwait, several parliamentarians called for a boycott of Danish goods. "The government has to take action against Denmark," said Waleed al-Tabtabai, a member of parliament. "The sons of dogs published drawings that are offensive to the Prophet." Kuwait's deputy prime minister Faisal al-Hajji said the Gulf Arab country would make an official complaint.
What is most striking is the failure of the Muslim voices who condemn the republication to even mention the murder plot which triggered the republication. See for example the op ed Dr Haroon Junaidi, From Edinburgh in the Scotsman.
Copenhagen suffers 5 nights of "youth" riots. A JP photographer is injured. Fire fighters are stoned and police has to use tear gas and arrest rioters. It seems to follow the French pattern. In the meantime, the placard wording demonstrates determination to avoid past excess but it is the exception rather than the rule.
KARACHI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Chanting "Death to the cartoonist", dozens of Islamist students burned the Danish flag in southern Pakistan on Thursday after the republication of a caricature of Prophet Mohammad.
In Kuwait, several parliamentarians called for a boycott of Danish goods. "The government has to take action against Denmark," said Waleed al-Tabtabai, a member of parliament. "The sons of dogs published drawings that are offensive to the Prophet." Kuwait's deputy prime minister Faisal al-Hajji said the Gulf Arab country would make an official complaint.
What is most striking is the failure of the Muslim voices who condemn the republication to even mention the murder plot which triggered the republication. See for example the op ed Dr Haroon Junaidi, From Edinburgh in the Scotsman.
Source: History News Network
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