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Muslim World League Seeks Apology
The Muslim World League yesterday condemned a media campaign in the United States against Islam, particularly against the Prophet Muhammad, and expressed the strong displeasure of the entire Muslim community at such vilification and insinuations. League Secretary-General Abdullah Al-Turki was reacting to the publication of a caricature by Doug Marlette in the Tallahassee Democrat, showing an Arab driving a lorry resembling the truck used by the Oklahoma bomber Thomas McVeigh in his attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The cartoon showed the truck carrying a nuclear warhead under the title: "What would Mohammed drive?" Pretty witty, huh? Commenting on the extremely objectionable cartoon, Turki said: "Some enemies of Islam have been trying to tarnish the image of Muhammad just as they publish misleading information about and wrong interpretation of the Holy Quran." Some practitioners of Islam have declared war on us, using their religion as justification. They are supported in this endeavor by many in the Muslim world, and in particular by Soddy money, some of it originating with the World Muslim League. Turki demanded that the Tallahassee Democrat apologize to the 1.5 billion Muslims and give an undertaking that it will not publish such disparaging material again. Rantburg demands that the World Muslim League apologize to the citizens of the Free World for the unprovoked attack by Muslims on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon, for assassinations, church bombings, desecrations, military operations against civilians, torture and mutilation, murder, rape, kidnapping, lies, deceit and thievery committed in the name of Islam. Rantburg also demands the perpetrators of those acts be brought to justice. Once that's been done, we'll talk. Until then â piss off. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-12-27 |
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