Al-Sahwa [Archives:2006/918/Press Review]
2 Feb.2006
Main headlines
– Condemned the offense against the Prophet, demanded the Danish government to apologize, Islah Shoura demands reformation of the Election Commission, think seriously to take part in elections
– Because of it's admitting of violations, Politicians demand for a new election commission
– Disease kills 14 children in Jawf, Health ministry held responsible for deterioration of health situation in the country
– Teachers Union calls for resuming protests
– In celebration of the Prophet Hijra, seminar on peaceful migration to a society of rights and freedoms
The newspaper political editor has devoted his article on the latest insult carried out by one of the Danish newspapers against the person of Prophet Mohammed. He says the Arabs and Muslims had undergone campaigns of libel during the second half of last century and beginning of this century especially after the events of 9/11. Since then the severity of those campaign increased to the extent the Arabs and Muslims have become the more peoples in the world exposed to campaigns of hatred and defamation. Voices rose high condemning those campaigns and warning of their danger on world peace, addressing calls to those in charge of western media and thinkers in the hope they would contribute to stop those unjust campaigns. Many Arab and Islamic circles felt happy about calls launched by many western establishments for dialogue with the Islamic world. They hoped that the dialogue could contribute, even a little, in changing the way many of the western elite and establishments they deal with Islam.
The Danish offending caricatures that ridiculed the Prophet Mohammed have formed a big shock to all Muslims in the world and disclosed the volume of flagrant enmity against Islam and Muslims. Since the beginning of the publication of those caricatures in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, diplomatic efforts began to urge the Danish government to take an attitude observing feelings of the Muslim peoples. But the Denmark prime minister had then refused to receive the Muslim ambassadors to his country. The Danish attorney general also refused a lawsuit against the newspaper submitted by some Islamic organizations in Denmark, considering the caricatures as were part of the freedom of opinion.
The first reaction to the insult against the Prophet was boycotting all Danish goods, which is an effective weapon proved to be good in such attitudes and issues. It should be used with all those who fight Islam and Muslims and disdain their feelings. The Danish government has to realize that offending the Prophet of Muslims could open wide the door of a cultural war in which no one has any interest in and it will prepare atmospheres for miscommunication with cultures and peoples and threatens world peace and stability.
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