Our intention was absolutely not to mock or insult Islam or the Prophet Muhammad (May Allah’s peace and blessings be with Him). On the contrary, we want to function as whistle-blowers in regard to the responsibility the DPP has for the harsh and hateful tone in the Danish debate about Islam and Muslims.

The International Committee for the Support of the Final Prophet (ICSFP) commends the Danish Foreign Ministry and Permanent Secretary Ulrik Federspiel for reaching out to ambassadors from Muslim countries tonight in Copenhagen.

The Committee considered the sixteenth and seventeenth periodic reports of Denmark, submitted as one document (CERD/C/496/Add.1), at its 1772nd and 1773rd meetings (CERD/C/SR.1772 and 1773), held on 9 and 10 August 2006. At its 1785th meeting (CERD/C/SR.1785), held on 18 August 2006, it adopted the following concluding observations.

CAIR calls for stepped up outreach to educate about Islam.

JURIST Guest Columnist Bernard Freamon of Seton Hall University Law School says that Danish prosecutors should revisit their decision not to charge the Danish newspaper editors responsible for the initial printing of the satirical Muhammad cartoons before the worldwide violence over their publication and republication gets even more out of hand...

The conference values the attitude of Arla Foods that declared its rejection of the pictures and was not in agreement for reasons for their publication. The Conference is of the opinion that it was a good start for opening a dialogue with this organization to establish a common ground to reach a common understanding.

With the backing of the International Committee for the Support of the Final Prophet (ICSFP), twenty-seven Muslim groups and the Islamic Society in Denmark have today taken out a writ against chief editor Carsten Juste and culture editor Flemming Rose of Jyllands-Posten. Judgment against both is sought for the publication of both text and cartoons...

CAIR calls on Muslims to support a major educational effort, called "Explore the Life of Muhammad," as a positive response to the worldwide controversy over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

The Canadian Islamic Congress today issued an appeal to Muslims everywhere to restore to "a calm period for healing" in the aftermath of the publication and republication of the offending cartoons. The message was communicated to national and international media and to media in Muslim countries, and to Ambassadors of OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference) countries in Ottawa and to OIC Secretary General in Saudi Arabia.

When ICSFP was informed of the cartoon being sold on T-shirts, it moved immediately to seek a court injunction. “Our legal counsel informed us that we would have a very strong case if the owner of the copyright brought the case,” stated ICSFP Chairman Ali Jomaa. “So we instructed our lawyer in Denmark to contact the copyright owner and inform them of our position,” he added.

What can one say in response to the sarcastic caricatures published in the Jyllands Posten newspaper from Denmark, in its issue dated Tuesday, September 30 th 2005? Whom was this newspaper mocking? It was mocking the greatest man ever created … the leader of all the Prophets, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam. They featured evil, shameless images of him, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, as shameless as any disbeliever’s imagination can be.

In spite of the great anger and offense caused for us and for millions of Muslims by the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad that were published by one of your country’s newspapers, in spite of our strong condemnation of that paper and its editor-in-chief, and in spite of our understanding the boycott of your country’s products that many Muslims are calling for to be a natural...

Raymond Lakah, an Egyptian magnate and owner of the Paris daily France Soir, fired managing editor Jacques Lefranc after the newspaper printed the caricatures on Wednesday. The newspaper said in a statement that the firing was to show "a strong sign of respect for the beliefs and intimate convictions of every individual."

In fourth paragraph, please read ...Le Temps in Geneva and Budapest's Magyar Hirlap ran another offending cartoon showing an imam telling suicide bombers to stop because Heaven had run out of virgins to reward them... instead of ...Switzerland's Le Temps and La Tribune de Geneve ran some of them on Thursday, as did Magyar Hirlap in Budapest...

In Gaza, EU staff were hurriedly evacuated as masked gunmen from Islamic Jihad and a Fatah brigade conducted an armed protest. "We will watch the office closely and if European countries continue their assaults against Islam and against the Prophet Muhammad, we will turn this office into ruins," a spokesman for the Yasser Arafat Brigades told Reuters.

Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the prophet to prevent idolatry. The drawings have prompted boycotts of Danish goods and bomb threats and demonstrations against Danish facilities, and have divided opinion within Europe and the Middle East.

DENMARK'S government scrambled today to repair the damage to its relations with the Muslim world after a newspaper published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, while other European media also printed images citing freedom of speech.

As a number of one thousand three hundred millions of the world's total population (of which 120 thousand live in Denmark) are Muslims and believe in Prophet Mohammad as the Messenger of God, that he is the example of the highest and finest morals, such sketches and their shameful implications pose an unprecedented incitement to Muslims.

The Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA) follows up with utmost concern, sheer resentment, and complete anger, what some of the Danish media have published of caricatures aiming at insulting and defaming the character of Prophet Muhammad, prayers and peace of Allah be upon him.

The French paper said it had decided to reprint them "not from an appetite for gratuitous provocation, but because they constitute the subject of a controversy on a global scale which has done nothing to maintain balance and mutual limits in democracy, respect of religious beliefs and freedom of expression".

The freedom of expression does not mean that the media or the people start insulting and humiliating fellow citizens. In Denmark and Norway, under the patronage of their governments, the media is creating hate against Muslims by insulting the Prophet of Islam.

“It’s certainly insulting to all Muslims,” Prince Naif told reporters about the 12 cartoons published by a Danish newspaper last September and reprinted in a Norwegian magazine in January. “Saudi Arabia’s stand on this matter is very clear,” he said. The Saudi Cabinet had earlier denounced the sacrilegious cartoons.

The EU's Austrian presidency rallied Monday to the defense of the freedom of the press and expression amid growing Muslim anger about controversial Danish cartoons portraying Prophet Mohammed.

Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which published the cartoons, issued an apology late on Monday in a statement to Arab countries, sent to the Jordanian news agency Petra.