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More insanity on cartoon protests
By:Linda Tx
Date: Thursday, 9 February 2006, 3:08 am

excerpt:

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The Associated Press protested Wednesday the misleading inclusion of an AP photograph in a pamphlet purporting to show images offensive to Islam.

The picture shows a bearded man wearing fake pig ears, a pig nose, and a pink embroidered cap on his head. He was wearing the costume while participating in a pig-squealing contest at an annual festival in a farm village in southern France last summer.

AP is attempting to contact the distributors of this unrelated photo to protest its misrepresentation .........

The brochure purported to show examples of anti-Muslim images from Europe, said Ahmed Akkari, a spokesman for the Danish Muslim delegation. ........

The group received copies of the AP picture in threatening anonymous letters last year, Akkari said.

"We did not find it ourselves," he told the AP, saying he had been unaware of the origin of the photograph and said he believed it was sent to the group as an example of a provocation.

When told about the background of the original AP photo, Akkari said: "I have no comments."

The group is a loose coalition of about 30 Danish Muslim organizations, according to group members. The coalition doesn't have a formal name but one of its larger members is Copenhagen's Islamic Faith Community. Newspapers and analysts say the coalition represents about 15 percent of the country's 200,000 Muslims."
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Just like the Danish-muslim female journalist said. The bigger mouths represent only a small minirity.

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