[lit-ideas] the power of cartoons
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:02:08 EST
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Uh, wow.......
Men Angry at Drawings Surround Gaza Office
By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Armed militants angered by a cartoon drawing of the
Prophet Muhammad published in European media surrounded EU offices in Gaza
Thursday and threatened to kidnap foreigners as outrage over the caricatures
spread across the Islamic world.
About a dozen gunmen with ties to the _Fatah_
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Fatah) Party approached the
office of the EU Commission.
Three jumped on the outer wall and the rest took up positions at the entrance.
In a statement read by one of the gunmen, the group demanded apologies from
the governments of Norway, Denmark, France and Germany and called on
Palestinians to boycott the products of these countries.
Palestinian gunmen in the _West Bank_
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=West+Bank) city of Nablus said
they were searching apartments for
foreigners from several European countries to try to kidnap them to protest
the
drawings. The claim by the gunmen could not immediately be verified
independently.
In a phone call to The Associated Press, a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades, a violent offshoot of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party,
said members of his group are also asking hotel owners in the city not to host
citizens of five European countries, including France and Denmark.
In Paris, the daily newspaper France Soir fired its managing editor after it
republished the caricatures Wednesday, and Pakistani protesters chanting
"Death to France!"
The furor over the drawings, which first ran in a Danish paper in September,
cuts to the question of which is more sacred in the Western world â freedom
of expression or respect for religious beliefs. The cartoons include an image
of Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse.
Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the prophet to prevent idolatry. The
drawings have divided opinion within Europe and the Middle East, where they
have prompted boycotts of Danish goods, bomb threats and demonstrations
against Danish facilities.
France Soir and several other European papers reprinted the pictures in a
show of solidarity with the Danish daily.
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