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  • Anger over Mohammad cartoons spreads (Danish PM refuses to apologize -- Publication spreads)

    02/03/2006 6:51:22 AM PST · by Cornpone · 51 replies · 1,333+ views
    Reuters (via Swissinfo) ^ | 3 February 2006 | Kerstin Gehmlich
    PARIS (Reuters) - Denmark said on Friday it could not apologise for cartoons in a Danish newspaper depicting the Prophet Mohammad as outrage spread across the Muslim world from the Middle East to countries in Asia. More European newspapers published the cartoons on Friday, arguing freedom of speech was sacred, but angry Muslims staged violent protests against jokes they consider "blasphemous". "Neither the Danish government nor the Danish nation as such can be held responsible for drawings published in a Danish newspaper," Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after meeting with Muslim envoys in Copenhagen. "A Danish government can...