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01-02-06, 16:13
Call to respect Islam’s image
Web posted at: 2/1/2006 3:45:44
Source ::: Agencies
Doha: Some 10 major associations and charitable bodies in Qatar have joined hands to launch an international campaign whose aim is to ensure that people around the world do not humiliate Islam and hurt the feelings of Muslims.
A committee has been set up that would chalk out a strategy to spearhead the global campaign today. Details of the plans are to be outlined at a press briefing immediately after that.
The march is being organised by Doha Youth Centre in cooperation with the Central Municipal Council. The organisations that have come together to wage the campaign to make the world respect Muslims and Islam include Qatar Charity, Sheikh Eid Charity, Doha Youth Centre, Barzan Centre and Al Jasra Club.
“Our aim is much more than just seeking apology from Denmark for the newspaper caricatures that insulted the prophet of Islam,” said Abdul Rahman bin Umair Al Nuaimi, secretary-general of the panel, said. “We will carry out the campaign outside Qatar,” Al Nuaimi added. The committee will not spare any effort to achieve its goals, he stressed.
Plans are afoot to print with the help of a Saudi publisher biography of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in the Danish language so as to help remove some misgivings the people of Denmark may have about Islam and its Prophet (PBUH). Doha Youth Centre has decided to print the said book in coordination with a Saudi publishing house.
Qaradawi march
On Friday, Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi, will lead a protest march from Omer bin Khattab mosque to condemn the instance of the Danish newspapers against the prophet.
Meanwhile, Al Sharq has also launched a campaign and said many non-Muslims have joined hands with their Muslim brethren in boycotting Danish products.
In London, Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud met the Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller on the sidelines of an international conference. Talks between the two leaders broached on the cartoons Danish newspapers carried caricaturing Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).
False bomb threat
Meanwhile, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed alarm at the wave of anger in the Muslim world. “We are up against uncontrollable forces. It will take a huge effort to calm things down,” he told Danish media after the offices of Jyllands-Posten, which published the controversial cartoons, were evacuated following a false bomb threat.
The paper’s offices in both the town of Aarhus in central Denmark and in Copenhagen were evacuated and searched with bomb-sniffing dogs. After two hours it was determined that it was a false alarm. The bomb threat came as Muslim anger boiled over into a diplomatic crisis threatening Danish trade relations with the Muslim world.
Muslim leaders in Denmark called for a more conciliatory tone from the Muslim world, saying the row had gone too far. It was time to calm the tensions, Muslim leaders said, amid reports of Danish flag-burnings, protest rallies, boycotts and threats against Scandinavians in Muslim countries.
Interior ministers from 17 Arab countries called on the Danish government to “punish the authors” of the cartoons. Thousands of Palestinians also demonstrated in Gaza City to denounce the caricatures, burning a large picture of the Danish prime minister. — Agencies
Web posted at: 2/1/2006 3:45:44
Source ::: Agencies
Doha: Some 10 major associations and charitable bodies in Qatar have joined hands to launch an international campaign whose aim is to ensure that people around the world do not humiliate Islam and hurt the feelings of Muslims.
A committee has been set up that would chalk out a strategy to spearhead the global campaign today. Details of the plans are to be outlined at a press briefing immediately after that.
The march is being organised by Doha Youth Centre in cooperation with the Central Municipal Council. The organisations that have come together to wage the campaign to make the world respect Muslims and Islam include Qatar Charity, Sheikh Eid Charity, Doha Youth Centre, Barzan Centre and Al Jasra Club.
“Our aim is much more than just seeking apology from Denmark for the newspaper caricatures that insulted the prophet of Islam,” said Abdul Rahman bin Umair Al Nuaimi, secretary-general of the panel, said. “We will carry out the campaign outside Qatar,” Al Nuaimi added. The committee will not spare any effort to achieve its goals, he stressed.
Plans are afoot to print with the help of a Saudi publisher biography of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in the Danish language so as to help remove some misgivings the people of Denmark may have about Islam and its Prophet (PBUH). Doha Youth Centre has decided to print the said book in coordination with a Saudi publishing house.
Qaradawi march
On Friday, Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi, will lead a protest march from Omer bin Khattab mosque to condemn the instance of the Danish newspapers against the prophet.
Meanwhile, Al Sharq has also launched a campaign and said many non-Muslims have joined hands with their Muslim brethren in boycotting Danish products.
In London, Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud met the Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller on the sidelines of an international conference. Talks between the two leaders broached on the cartoons Danish newspapers carried caricaturing Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).
False bomb threat
Meanwhile, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed alarm at the wave of anger in the Muslim world. “We are up against uncontrollable forces. It will take a huge effort to calm things down,” he told Danish media after the offices of Jyllands-Posten, which published the controversial cartoons, were evacuated following a false bomb threat.
The paper’s offices in both the town of Aarhus in central Denmark and in Copenhagen were evacuated and searched with bomb-sniffing dogs. After two hours it was determined that it was a false alarm. The bomb threat came as Muslim anger boiled over into a diplomatic crisis threatening Danish trade relations with the Muslim world.
Muslim leaders in Denmark called for a more conciliatory tone from the Muslim world, saying the row had gone too far. It was time to calm the tensions, Muslim leaders said, amid reports of Danish flag-burnings, protest rallies, boycotts and threats against Scandinavians in Muslim countries.
Interior ministers from 17 Arab countries called on the Danish government to “punish the authors” of the cartoons. Thousands of Palestinians also demonstrated in Gaza City to denounce the caricatures, burning a large picture of the Danish prime minister. — Agencies