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Article: Respecting both free speech and Muslims' faith can bring peace; We must resolve the cartoon conflict through respectful dialogue.(OPINION)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 9, 2006
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Byline: Helena Cobban
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. -- From northern Europe to Afghanistan and beyond, the row over the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad has escalated. Four anticartoon demonstrators were killed in Afghanistan, Monday; others have died in Lebanon and Somalia. Protesters in Syria and Lebanon burned the embassies of Denmark and Norway. Feelings of fear and victimization on this issue remain raw.
How welcome, then, is a call for calm issued jointly by the prime ministers of predominantly Christian Spain and predominantly Muslim Turkey, Feb. 5.
Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Spain's Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero wrote ...