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France To Shut Embassies Over Naked Prophet Mohammad Cartoons
Schools and missions in 20 countries will be closed on Friday after French weekly prints caricature of Prophet Muhammad.
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Violent protests have taken place in many Muslim countries over the release of an anti-Islam video [EPA]
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France will temporarily close its embassies and schools in 20 countries on Friday after a French magazine published cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, a move it fears will further inflame tensions after the recent release of an anti-Islam video. “We have indeed decided as a precautionary measure to close our premises, embassies, consulates, cultural centres and schools,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said of the shut-down on Friday. On Wednesday, France stepped up security and appealed for calm after satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo published the cartoons.
Laurent Fabius, the foreign minister, said he had ordered special security measures “in all the countries where this could pose a problem”. Demonstrations in the Islamic world often follow Friday prayers. Fabius admitted that he was “concerned” by the potential for a backlash to Charlie Hebdo’s printing of the series of cartoons, given the background of violent protests that have taken place in the Muslim world over the release of the anti-Islam video, Innocence of Muslims. Police were deployed outside the Paris offices of the magazine on Wednesday. The left-wing, libertarian publication’s offices were firebombed last year after it published an edition “guest-edited” by Prophet Muhammad that it called Sharia Hebdo. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault urged “responsibility” and said anyone offended by the caricatures could sue.MORE HERE |
French Magazine Portrays Prophet Mohammad Naked In Cartoons, Set To Further Infuriate Muslim World
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/19/2012
It’s almost as if someone is actively trying to force the Muslim world to launch an all out war against the “developed” west. A week ago, it was a film mocking Mohammad which led to the death of the US ambassador in Libya. Today, it is a French magazine which has ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad by portraying him naked in cartoons, which, as Reuters logically adds, “threatens to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a film depiction of him as a womanizing buffoon.” It is as if the anti-Iran strategy of antagonizing the country to its breaking point, merely so the first attack comes from them in response to endless provocations, and a defensive retaliation can be spun to the “free world”, has now been adopted against the entire Muslim world now, and all the insolvent Western countries are praying they get attacked just so the media spin will coalesce the sheep around the “developed” democracies in an all out “retaliatory” assault, which among other things, liberates tens of millions of barrel of oil equivalents, even as it spreads democracy and unlimited credit cards.http://www.zerohedge.com/
