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Editor Fired After Publication of Islam Cartoons

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Caricatures of Prophet Muhammad have sparked widespread Muslim anger

Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud / Reuters

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Updated: 7:51 a.m. ET Feb. 2, 2006
PARIS - The Paris newspaper France Soir has fired its managing editor after the daily printed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that have sparked rising protests and boycotts in the Muslim world.

The daily confirmed that owner Raymond Lakah had fired Jacques Lefranc on Wednesday evening after a tumultuous day on which German and Spanish dailies ran the controversial cartoons that first appeared in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten.

Angered by the drawings, Palestinian gunmen jumped on the outer wall of a European Union office in Gaza City on Thursday and demanded an apology. Masked gunmen also briefly took over an EU office in Gaza on Monday.

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Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the prophet to prevent idolatry. The drawings have prompted boycotts of Danish goods and bomb threats and demonstrations against Danish facilities, and have divided opinion within Europe and the Middle East.

The cartoons include an image of Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse, and another portraying him holding a sword, his eyes covered by a black rectangle.

Syria has called for those behind publishing the cartoons to be punished. Danish goods were swept from shelves in many countries, and Saudi Arabia and Libya recalled their ambassadors to Denmark.

Tabloid defends publication
The front page of France Soir on Wednesday carried the headline “Yes, We Have the Right to Caricature God” and a cartoon of Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian gods floating on a cloud.

The tabloid staunchly defended its right to print the cartoons.

“The best way to fight censorship is not to let it happen,” it wrote in an editorial. “In these circumstances, that meant publishing these drawings.”

“Imagine a society that added up all the prohibitions of different religions. What would remain of the freedom to think, to speak and even to come and go?


“We know societies like that all too well. The Iran of the mullahs, for example. But yesterday, it was the France of the Inquisitions, the burning stakes and the Saint Bartholomew’s Day (massacre of Protestants).”

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the issue had gone beyond a row between Copenhagen and the Muslim world and now centered on Western free speech versus taboos in Islam, which is now the second religion in many European countries.

“We are talking about an issue with fundamental significance to how democracies work,” Rasmussen told the Copenhagen daily Politiken. “One can safely say it is now an even bigger issue.”

Other European papers publish cartoons
Switzerland’s Le Temps and La Tribune de Geneve ran some of the cartoon on Thursday, as did Magyar Hirlap in Budapest.

Germany’s Die Welt daily printed one of the drawings on its front page, arguing that a “right to blasphemy” was anchored in democratic freedoms. The Berliner Zeitung daily printed two of the caricatures as part of its coverage of the controversy.

Italy’s La Stampa printed a small version of the offending caricature, on page 13. Two Spanish papers, Barcelona’s El Periodico and Madrid’s El Mundo, also carried the photos.

The publication by French Soir drew a stern reaction from the French Foreign Ministry. While it said that freedom of expression is dear to France, the ministry “condemns all that hurts individuals in their beliefs or their religious convictions.”

The issue is sensitive in France, home to Western Europe’s largest Muslim community with an estimated 5 million people.

Mohammed Bechari, president of the National Federation of the Muslims of France, said his group would start legal proceedings against France Soir because of “these pictures that have disturbed us, and that are still hurting the feelings of 1.2 billion Muslims.”

Scathing Arab reaction
Reaction in Middle East countries has been scathing.

“In the West, one discovers there are different moral ceilings and all moral parameters and measures are not equal,” wrote the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat.

“If the Danish cartoon had been about a Jewish rabbi, it would never have been published.”

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef said Riyadh considered the cartoons an insult to Mohammad and all Muslims. “We hope that religious centers like the Vatican will clarify their opinion in this respect,” he told the state news agency SPA.

In Beirut, the leader of Lebanon’s Shiite Hizbollah said the dispute would never had occurred if a 17-year-old death edict against British writer Salman Rushdie been carried out.

“Had a Muslim carried out Imam Khomeini’s fatwa against the apostate Salman Rushdie, then those low-lifers would not have dared discredit the Prophet, not in Denmark, Norway or France,” Hizbollah head Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday night.

The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called on Muslims in 1989 to kill Rushdie for blasphemy against Islam in his book “The Satanic Verses.” Rushdie went into hiding and was never attacked.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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Rarely, if ever, do I condone censorship of any type or form. But in this case I wholeheartedly support it. I agree that if the cartoon had been of a Rabbi flying a gunship, or driving a tank, it would NEVER had been published.
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now i got it!!!
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Navy, long time. But what is it you've got, dare I ask ?? Laughing
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hey mike, well some friends were bombarding me with emails to boycot danish goods...i didnt know what was going on? But thanks to you now i know. How is North America? Smile
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They've been raising a stink over this for a while now. Finally it's spread to the rest of Europe, and they'r doing something about it. But Toronto's great. Warmest winter EVER! Very Happy
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boycott what foods???? to be honest the only food i know which is danish is the danish bacon and i don't eat that so what else am i to boycott? Confused Laughing
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Cinnammon Danish ???? Laughing Laughing
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What is there to boycott when danish barely have any traditional food except for that nasty ass cookies.

Muslim are over reacting on everything walaahi,especially when a narrow-minded people make things like these.
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^^^ It wasn't an over reaction. They had a justifiable point. I'll bet you support Ayan Hirsi in HER narrow minded viewpoint of Islam ?
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Michael that exist???? Laughing

Super lady we are not overreacting what they drew was totally disrespectful to islam and muslims.

If the editor wrote anything jewish...he would be called anti semtic and the whole world would be up in arms however because it was islamic everyone started bringing up the freedom of speach bullshiiit!
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No i dont support that bitch waryaa...The truth is the msulim world over react on everything the whitey say...instead of looking for some sort of apology from them we should stone the living shit outta of them.
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'Yaddy, YEP!!! It's a pastry. They're good too. Bout the only thing I know that's "Danish." Laughing Laughing
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All italians smell like over cooked piece of Onion.
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I see we have another candidate for the DBB (Dizzy Blonde Brigade).
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And why is that all italian men are secrectly gay????
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