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February 1, 2006
France: French Muslims to Sue Newspaper for Reprinting Mohammad Cartoons
That didn't take long: More Muslim Madness
PARIS, February 1, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) - French Muslim leaders on Wednesday, February 1, denounced in unison the reprinting of a series of explosive cartoons blasphemous to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by a French daily and vowed to take the case to French courts."We call on French Muslims to peacefully protest this aggression on the Prophet of Islam," the French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM) said in a statement after a meeting chaired by its head Dalil Boubackeur.
Boubakeur's call was echoed by Lhaj Thami Breze, the head of the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF), who blasted the provocative and unnecessary publication.
Paris daily France Soir said it had decided to reprint them "not from an appetite for gratuitous provocation, but because they constitute the subject of a controversy on a global scale which has done nothing to maintain balance and mutual limits in democracy, respect of religious beliefs and freedom of expression."[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at February 1, 2006 4:18 PM
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