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Denmark refuses to apologise
 COPENHAGEN Denmarks Prime Minister said yesterday his government could not act against the blasphemous cartoons after Libya closed its embassy in Copenhagen amid growing Muslim anger over the dispute. The newspaper Jyllands-Posten had not intended to insult Muslims when it published the drawings, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said, referring to an editorial on the papers Web site in Danish and Arabic.
But while Rasmussen tried to assuage Muslim anger, Libya yesterday closed its embassy in Denmark in protest at the drawings. Because the Danish media had continued to show disrespect to the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and because the Danish authorities failed to take any responsible action on that, Libya decided to close its embassy in Copenhagen, the Libyan Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
It also threatened to take unspecified economic measures against Denmark.
In a demonstration on the West Bank, members of Fatahs Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades threatened Danes in the area and told them to leave immediately, the Danish news agency Ritzau reported on Sunday. The demonstrators burned the Danish flag and called on the Palestinian authorities to cut diplomatic ties with Denmark, Ritzau said.
Posted by: Steve White 2006-01-30 |
