Posted on 08/31/2007 12:25:16 PM PDT by tobyhill
Two years after a Danish newspaper provoked manufactured outrage in the Islamic world by printing a series of cartoons lampooning Islam's founder, a Swedish newspaper may have done the same with a series of sketches:
Marking the beginning of yet another dispute over free speech and religious sensitivity, the government of Pakistan has joined Iran in protesting the publication in a Swedish newspaper of a sketch featuring the head of Mohammed on the body of a dog.
"Pakistan condemns, in the strongest terms, the publication of an offensive and blasphemous sketch of the Holy Prophet in the Swedish newspaper," the foreign ministry in Islamabad said in a statement Thursday.
A Swedish diplomat was summoned to the ministry and "was told that the publication of the sketch had caused grave affront to the religious sentiments of Muslims," it said.
"Regrettably, the tendency among some Europeans to mix the freedom of expression with an outright and deliberate insult to 1.3 billion Muslims in the world is on the rise," the statement said.
A Swedish foreign ministry spokeswoman told Sweden's English-language The Local that the diplomat had apologized for any hurt feelings the publication may have caused.
The government in Stockholm has distanced itself from the decision by a regional newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda, to publish the picture on August 18. The sketch, by artist Lars Vilks, was used to illustrate an editorial on freedom of expression.
The paper noted that three Swedish art exhibitions had turned down three Vilks sketches depicting a bearded, turbaned man as a dog, apparently because of security concerns.
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Swedish Mohammed? Um Bork Bork Bork???
If only our media was as brave as this Swedish Publication.
Dog lovers everywhere should be angry as hell...who is this clown that puts a mass murdering pedophile on the face of a friendly pooch....
Yes, I can see why the jihadis want to wipe out civilized people over this outrage!!
Wait. No I don’t. They just crazy!!
Woof!
I’m so sick to bleeding gums death of them. Even Atticus Finch shot rabid dogs.
Muslims need to understand that if one of their own did this, they may want to sanction them. The rest of the world does not have to follow their beliefs.
It’s an insult to dogs.
POS people. I wonder how many of them will die rioting this time?
- Thanks for spreading a true image of the Muslim community of today.
For this, I feel indebted to you.
If you ever come to Sweden, you can drive my nice Volvo and drink my booze.
No joke. I’ll even introduce you to Inga;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DgO6Ttn7rU
bttt
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