Monday, January 30, 2006

Outrage builds in Mideast over cartoons

The AP reports:
From the burning of its flag to a boycott of its brands of butter and cookies, Denmark is feeling Islamic outrage over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Angered by the drawings, masked Palestinian gunmen briefly took over a European Union office in Gaza on Monday.
Islamists in Bahrain urged street demonstrations, while Syria called for the offenders to be punished. A Saudi company paid thousands of dollars for an ad thanking a business that snubbed Danish products.
Imagine that, not everyone is for free speech.No word yet if anyone in the Muslim world would be upset with Jesus being depicted in a cartoon.