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| Danish-Muslim leader lampoons latest prophet cartoon |
| 2007-10-26 |
| A far-right Danish political party controversially depicted the prophet Muhammad on election material yesterday. Now a high-profile Danish-Muslim politician has hit back with a poster lampooning the move. The ad by the Danish People's Party, the country's third largest political force, showed a hand-drawn picture of the Islamic prophet under the slogan "Freedom of expression is Danish, censorship is not". The ad was condemned as a "provocation" by at least one Danish-Muslim group, as Islam forbids representation of its most important prophet. Now Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, a Danish-Muslim politician who could become the first MP to wear the hijab in the Danish parliament if elected in next month's poll, has hit back with a poster showing a hand-drawn picture of the DPP leader, Pia Kjaersgaard, under the slogan "Freedom of expression is Danish, stupidity is not". "It is ridiculous [of the DPP] to do that kind of thing," Ms Abdol-Hamid told Guardian Unlimited. "It's not clever, there is no point to it." "You have to think before using freedom of expression," said the town councillor for Odense, and a member of the leftwing Red-Green Alliance. Ms Abdol-Hamid believes the current controversy will not reignite the Muhammad cartoon crisis, when 12 caricatures of the Islamic prophet published in the daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005 caused anger across the Muslim world. "People won't react to it because they have decided not to. Nobody wants to talk about [the Muhammad cartoons crisis]. It is no longer an issue," she said. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 This insult on islam's honor is enough to drive a mullah to drink. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-10-26 17:22 |
| #2 Her response is perfectly fine even if its message is not. The original picture may have been provocative, but, the effort to point out that Muslims demand censorship is entirely valid. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2007-10-26 13:06 |
| #1 Abdol-Hamid's response is actually appropriate - who would have figured a Muslim could even pretend to be that rational? Then again, she's a woman in politics, and a lefty at that, so she's probably not a very 'real' Muslim. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-10-26 10:07 |