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Sweden apologises for cartoon
A Swedish envoy groveled and apologised to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference for the exercise of free speech publication of a blasphemous cartoon in Sweden, the OIC crowed said on Wednesday. The Swedish ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Jan Thesleff, met OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu on Tuesday at the organisation’s headquarters in Jeddah and kowtowed to the big turban offered his “deepest apologies for the controversy created by the publishing of the hurtful depiction,” the 57-nation bloc said in a statement.

The publication of the sketch in the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda on August 18 sparked a fiery debate in the Swedish media. Ihsanoglu conveyed to Thesleff his “concerns that this kind of provocative incitement in the name of defending freedom of expression ... was leading the world towards more confrontation and division,” the OIC said.
Posted by: Fred 2007-09-13
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=198827