Massive rally in Gaza in protest to the re-publication of insulting cartoons in Denmark

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[ 16/02/2008 - 10:42 AM ]

JABALIA, (PIC)--

Thousands of Palestinians participated at noon Friday in a massive rally organized by the Hamas Movement in protest to the re-publication of the insulting cartoons of Prophet Mohamed in Danish newspapers, where they urged the Arab and Islamic peoples to organize protest rallies in defense of the noble Prophet.

The protesters warned that the continuing attack on the noble Prophet would generate a massive Islamic explosion if the "hands and tongues that dared to insult the commander and master of humanity were not silenced".

The rally's organizers called on the Arab and Islamic countries and the concerned Islamic organizations to intervene urgently to defend the Prophet.

For his part, Dr. Yousuf Al-Sharafi, a member of the Hamas parliamentary bloc, slammed the western democracy that allows blasphemies against the Prophet and sanctions killing innocent people (in reference to American justification of Israeli massacres in lines of the Palestinian civilians), pointing out that those who had the audacity to insult the Prophet must be punished.

For its part, Hamas considered the re-publication of those blasphemous drawings against the Prophet as a desecration of Islam and a deliberate provocation of millions of Muslims' feelings all over the world, calling on Denmark to keep the heavenly religions away from the blasphemous campaigns because they offend the Muslims' feelings.

Hamas called on Denmark to bring the newspapers which re-published those offensive cartoons to trial and to apologize officially to Muslims.

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