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March 3, 2008 Rabat - Morocco's
highest religious authority has said a
decision by Danish newspapers to
reprint their blasphemous caricature
of a man said to be the Prophet
Mohammad was "a short step from
terrorism" as the Africans refused
ignorance and endangering lives in
so-called freedom of speech that
causes so many troubles.
Morocco's Higher Council of Ulema said
in a statement issued on Sunday that
the reprinting "reflects like a mirror
a surprising ethical deficiency that
is a short step from terrorism of
enemies of Islam, with destructive
effects for all humanity".
Republishing of one of the 12
drawings of a man said to be the
Prophet Muhammad that caused global
Muslim killings two years ago by
Danish racist newspaper
Jyllands-Posten and arrests of one
Danish citizen of Moroccan descent and
two Tunisians on Tuesday for
allegations of planning to murder
73-year-old racist cartoonist Kurt
Westergaard are nothing but heinous
sins that must not go unpunished.
The idea that Jyllands-Posten
should be given unconditional
solidarity when it faces reactions
from the Muslims regardless of whether
the racist paper at the time used
freedom of speech unwisely and with
damaging consequences is an insult
upon humanity. Solidarity against
Islam has claimed so many lives that
it has left the Africans with no
sympathy whatsoever for victims of
so-called terrorism.
It said the cartoons represented
"aggression against the sacred values
of Muslims" and urged authorities in
countries where the cartoons have also
been reprinted to "act with all haste
to bring the aggressors to cease their
aggression".
The latest reprinting has sparked
protests or warnings to Denmark in
several Muslim countries, including
Egypt, Iran, Sudan, Mauritania, and in
the Palestinian territories. Once
again we are seeing protests in the
Muslim World most notably in Pakistan,
Nigeria, Indonesia and Libya. Young
people rioting in Europe, especially
in Denmark’s immigrant areas and after
Friday congregational prayers in
European capital cities such as
London, Paris and Madrid, calling for
a total boycott of Denmark by Kuwaiti
MP’s and by an Arab consumer group.
Diplomatic difficulties for Denmark
have increased as Iran and Sudan
summoned the Danish envoys to discuss
this incident.
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir
met last week with the leaders of his
ruling National Congress Party on
Saturday to devise a response to
Denmark after 17 Danish newspapers
published a cartoon earlier this month
that shows Prophet Muhammad wearing a
bomb-shaped turban.
Over a million Sudanese people are
gathering together protesting against
against Denmark’s blasphemy on
Wednesday in a government-approved
rally demonstrating against the evil
cartoon publication in Danish racist
newspapers satirising the God’s
Apostle, Prophet Muhammad.
"Down, down, Denmark," condemning the
growing crowd at the Shuhada Square in
downtown Khartoum, where President
Omar al-Bashir and other top officials
were to address the gathering from the
Republican Palace.
The rally came a day after Sudan
enforced a ban called by al-Bashir on
imports of Danish goods in retaliation
for the reprint of the cartoon in 17
Danish newspapers showing Prophet
Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban.
Al-Bashir has also urged that Danish
officials be snubbed and its
organisations from Sudan be expelled.
These protests declaring al-Bashir yet
again a capable leadership in adopting
right channels to defend its people,
their values, faith and emotions,
manifesting his country's open enmity
with blasphemous Denmark, directing
that all Danish officials and
diplomats should not be received by
Sudanese officials and that all Danish
organisations operating in the country
should be expelled and all Danish
goods boycotted.
The embargo on Denmark and its
products has come to effect. Several
aid groups from Denmark operate in
Sudan, including the Danish Refugee
Council and the Danish Red Cross
should not be allowed to use pretense
of running charitable projects in the
western Darfur region to evade the
justice as introduced so courageously
by Khartoum.
The Africans join in coalition
defend the Prophet (s.a.w.) thousands
of Palestinians, Indonesians,
Malaysians and Turks participated at
noon Friday in massive rallies
organized in these nations in protest
at re-publishing the insulting
cartoons of Prophet Mohamed in Danish
newspapers, where they urged the Arab
and Islamic peoples to organize
protest rallies in defense of the
noble Prophet.
Morocco has moved to demonstrate to
the hate world that the Africans are
not to be silenced over insulting the
Prophet of Islam or be mal-influenced
by Western hostile media about the
Northern African Muslim fighters.
Rabat shows the Africans do not
believes any longer that bombing
countries like Sudan and Somalia was
about freeing the nations from Al-Qaedah
global fighters.
The Africans, and Asians for that
matter, cannot believe in free speech
when they see it stand for the freedom
to propagate bigotry and racism. No
wonder the Africans have found, many
of West’s democratic ideals candy
wrappers for imperialistic interests
in the West. The Africans, seeing what
democracies can cost them within weeks
in countries like Kenya and Nigeria,
don’t only find the idea that the war
against Iraq was a war for democracy
is now laughable, they have discovered
it’s a trap from the very people who
traded slavery and colonization on
their soils.
Moroccan newspapers and academics
have considered the re-publication of
those blasphemous drawings against the
Prophet as a desecration of Islam and
a deliberate provocation of millions
of Muslims' feelings all over the
world, calling on Denmark to keep the
heavenly religions away from the
blasphemous campaigns because they
offend the Muslims' feelings.
Prominent figures like Dr. Yousef
Al-Sharafi, a member of the Hamas
parliamentary bloc, slammed the
western democracy that allows
blasphemies against the Prophet and
sanctions killing innocent people (in
reference to American justification of
Israeli massacres in lines of the
Palestinian civilians), pointing out
that those who had the audacity to
insult the Prophet must be punished.
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