Says Pakistan’s Norwegian Ambassador
by Filip van Laenen
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4817. Muslims across the world are insulted by this cartoon, and therefore it is an act of terrorism,” the ambassador said in an interview with the Norwegian commercial television station TV2.
It seems like some Muslims just don’t want to understand that an insulting http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3441 some of them have.
In the interview with TV2 Pakistan’s ambassador says he is “concerned,” since the publication of a cartoon in Adresseavisen may put the lives of Norwegian citizens all over the world in danger. Furthermore, he points out that a number of Norwegian companies have offices and commercial interests in Pakistan. At the same time he rejects the explanation by the editors of Adresseavisen that the cartoon doesn’t show Mohammed but someone who poses as Mohammed. According to Arne Blix, chief editor of the newspaper, the cartoonist wanted to demonstrate that someone who commits terror in religious clothes in the name of religion is totally unbelievable, but it seems Pakistan’s ambassador isn’t able to grasp that statement at all.http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1806, leader of the opposition’s Conservative Party (Høyre), said in a reaction that the ambassador is completely overreacting. According to her diplomats in Norway should study the Norwegian situation and the Norwegian freedom of expression more carefully, and the Norwegian government should not apologize for the publication of the cartoon.
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