Monday, February 06, 2006

Cartoon furor deepens divisions / The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb 2006

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0206/p01s02-wogi.html
James Brandon
"As controversy escalates over the publication in Europe of 12 controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, Muslims from Saudi Arabia to Britain are decrying what they see as but one more installment in a worldwide attack against Islam.
'This is a revival of the Crusades of old,' says Anjem Choudary, spokesman for Al-Ghurabaa, a radical Muslim group that organized protests in London this weekend.


PROTEST: British Muslims demonstrated outside Denmark's embassy in London Saturday.
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'European nations are joining hands against Islam. We have seen the invasion of Iraq, the banning of the hijab in France, and now this.'"