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Cartoons Derogatory and Blasphemous |
A party-list solon on Monday condemned what he called as "derogatory and blasphemous" cartoons against Muslims, particularly the one depicting Prophet Mohammad as a terrorist which first appeared in a Danish daily.
Anak Mindanao Rep. Mujiv Hataman denounced the caricature showing the Prophet with a turban resembling a bomb.
Hataman did not only find the cartoons offending but also highly insulting against Islam as a religion.
“It is deplorable and condemnable that even in modern days, such kind of blasphemy and wickedness is still happening,” Hataman said.
With this, Hataman believes that Denmark could face more Islamic anger as an offshoot of the offensive cartoons if necessary actions are not executed such as apology.
“An immediate apology is highly in order, Prophet Mohammad is no terrorist but a prophet who spouses the wisdom of Allah, the almighty God,” he said.
A small Norwegian Christian newspaper was one of the first outside Denmark to publish the cartoons that have now appeared in papers in Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.
While with high respect to the freedom of the press, Hataman said the Danish daily should not use it as basis for the publications of derogatory and highly insulting cartoons.
Hataman said freedom of the press is always accorded with responsibility and it is ironic for a Danish daily to abuse it by attacking religions.
“I have high regards to the freedom of the press and I fight every time it is being threatened, but it should not be used as a tool to show disrespect to whatever religion,” Hataman said.
Hataman joined calls by Arab countries boycotting Danish goods over the paper’s disrespect to Prophet Mohammad.
Protests continued throughout the Muslim world on Saturday in what has developed into a face-off between calls for press freedom and religious respect.
The Syrians in Damascus set fire the Danish and Norwegian embassies on Saturday while protesters thronged at the Danish embassy in London. Around 500 students of Islamic seminaries protested in Lahore.
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