A group of youth of the People s Party of Denmark had a mohammad drawing contest while at camp this past summer. They apparently spent some time mocking mohammad.
The images, filmed by artist Martin Rosengaard Knudsen who posed as a member of the party for several months to document attitudes among young members, show a number of young people drinking, singing and drawing cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad.
The leader of the group, Kenneth Kristensen disapproved of the events, but didn t appologize.
It s not my kind of humor and it would not have happened if I had been there. It must not be repeated, he told Danish state TV.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Muslim leaders in Denmark on Saturday condemned video showing members of the anti-immigrant Danish Peoples Party (DPP) drawing cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad, but said they would not be goaded into taking action.
Against the background of the problems earlier, we have to be careful, said Ahmed Abu-Laban, a Copenhagen imam who helped organise a trip to Egypt and Lebanon last year to rally support among Muslim leaders for protests against those drawings.
However, there looks to be some mis-reporting on al-Jazeera in their arabic publications anyway.
has a translation of the version of this story that adds to what Kristensen was reported to have said. While it reports that he disapproved of the groups actions but refused to appologize for it, it adds:
He called on Muslims to recognize that the Messiah is the son of God, and they must form the tariff books on the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him “to improve his image in the West and the definition of it.â€
While the Muslim world’s anger hasn’t yet abated against the background of the Pope of Vatican’s offensive statements against Islam and its prophet, Certain sectors in Western media once again resumed its fierce campaign against Islam, the recent of which was yesterday Friday October 6, 2006, when an organization affiliated to one of the Danish ruling coalition government, the Danish People’s Party, displayed video footage offending the prophet and portraying him in an indecent position.
The Muslim Brotherhood released a statement the following day saying that †Muslims still come under heated vulgar words said and portraits displayed by a party in the Danish coalition government, displaying stills of video footage offending the world’s most honorable man, Prophet Mohammed PBUH†The statement added that the recurrence of such irresponsible acts shows how deep hatred the West harbors against Islam and prophet and Muslims “This is a tip of the icebergâ€, the statement read, adding that this bitter hostility shows sectors in the West’s deep hatred of justice, right and all good virtues enshrined in the religion of Islam.
I ve read a good bit this weekend about the increasing conflicts in Europe between muslims and Europeans. Inevitably, the conflicts are referred to as being between gangs .
The muslim gangs are referred to as either Asian or North African while the Europeans are referred to as white . The conflicts are referred to as racially motivated .
Another thing I ve noticed is that there might be three or four incidents in which muslim youth attack Europeans and little is reported.
Then when Europeans, or as reported whites , retaliate, it is reported as whites attacking Asians or North Africans in racial violence.
In this story we have some Danish youth at a summer camp being silly and covertly video taped. When those tapes are made public, they are portrayed as racists.
But numerous hollywood types can make outrageous statements about the Pope or middle Americans and that is perfectly acceptable.
There really is a double standard.
And I m pretty tired of being expected to be tolerant of an intolerant religion whose leaders have openly declared they want to destroy Western society.
By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent
OSLO - Norwegian authorities on Friday presented details of an alleged plot to decapitate the Israeli ambassador to Oslo and blow up the Israeli and American embassies in the city.
The four suspects, three of them of Muslim background, are also charged with firing at the city s synagogue last week, causing damage but no injuries.
The evidence against the suspects was revealed in the course of extending the suspects remand, and is based on recordings of their conversations obtained by bugging devices placed in the lead suspect s car.
Jewish community representatives say they are shocked by the alleged plot.
They discussed in detail how to harm the Israeli and American ambassadors, prosecutor Uni Price said Thursday.
At the head of the group of suspects is allegedly a 29-year-old Pakistani-Norwegian with an extensive record of violence.
According to Price, the suspect consistently expressed radical Islamic views.
Two other suspects are also in custody, one of Pakistani and the other of Turkish background, both 28.
The youngest suspect, who is 26, is not an immigrant.
Norwegian media report he is the son of a royal residence employee.
Media reports also indicate that until May, the suspect lived in the residence area, and had been arrested several times on extortion charges.
The shooting incident at the synagogue was grave enough, Israel s Ambassador to Norway Miriam Shomrat told a Norwegian newspaper, but if there was indeed an assassination plot, this turns into an even more serious matter.
Shomrat was expected to attend Rosh Hashanah services on Friday evening at the Oslo synagogue.
The head of the city s Jewish community of 7,000, Anne Sender, told Haaretz that its members never considered changing their holiday plans, even after the plot was exposed.
The police are taking these threats seriously, and have placed security around Jewish institutions, she said.
Others said news of the alleged attacks had shaken the community to its core.
The feeling within the Jewish community is of complete shock, according to Mona Levy, a Jewish journalist from Oslo.
To a large extent, the foiled plot isn t a new stage of attacks against the Jewish community of Norway, she said.
Several anti-Semitic incidents occurred in recent weeks in Oslo. In addition to the synagogue shooting, a person wearing a kippah was attacked and a Jewish cemetery desecrated.
Levin said the anti-Israel atmosphere following the Lebanon war enabled the attackers to legitimize their actions.
She believes a letter sent by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder, in which he prophesies a flood of biblical proportions engulfing Israel, contributed to that legitimization.
Norway incited rage across the Islamic world in September of last year after printing a caricature of Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper.
About 70,000 Muslims live in the country, less than 2 percent of the population.
And who says this isn t a world-wide war on terror?
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