 LONDON - More than 10,000 people joined an angry central London protest on Saturday against the blasphemous cartoons that have infuriated many in the Muslim world. “Free speech cheap insults,” read one demonstrator’s placard. “How dare you insult the blessed Prophet Muhammed (PTUI)?” asked another.
Buses brought participants from cities around Britain to gather in Trafalgar Square, and they planned to march later on Saturday to Hyde Park.
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Speakers shouted from the podium and the crowd yelled back as the demonstration grew increasingly angry. “Every Muslim understands this basic concept of the centrality in importance of Muhammad (PTUI) to their lives,” said Taji Mustafa, a spokesman for the Muslim Action Committee, which organized the event. “So when he is demonized, the young and old are deeply affected. As long as the abuse is ongoing we will continue to rise up in protest.”
The Muslim world has been seething outraged by the drawings, first published in a Danish newspaper last September then reprinted with three extra cartoons added by a Danish iman, though no one ever seems to mention that in European papers in recent weeks in the name of press freedom. |