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Article: Prophet Mohammed Newspaper Cartoons Anger Muslims.
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- Israel Faxx
- Article date:
- February 3, 2006
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By VOA News
Palestinian gunmen have surrounded European Union offices in the Gaza Strip threatening violence and demanding an apology after newspapers in Europe reprinted Danish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
Newspapers in several EU countries published the cartoons Wednesday in a show of solidarity for press freedom. One cartoon shows the Prophet Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb.
The terrorists have threatened to target Danish, French, and Norwegian nationals in the Palestinian territories. The French-Egyptian owner of the French newspaper France Soir has fired an editor for reprinting the cartoons. A spokesman for the ...