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To: ManyMoose who wrote (5821)	2/8/2006 1:55:05 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) of 9838

Muslims urge cartoons law change 15:10pm 8th February 2006 Muslim scholars holding emergency talks called for a change in the law to stop insulting pictures of the Prophet Muhammad being published. Officials from the Muslim Action Committee (MAC) meeting in Birmingham also called for the Press Complaints Commission code to be tightened to restrict British newspapers from following European media in printing the caricatures. A protest march from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park on February 18 involving around 50,000 Muslims would be staged, Shaikh Faiz Saddiqi, spokesman for the MAC, said. Speaking at a press conference held at a mosque in Small Heath, Mr Saddiqi told reporters that discussions among hundreds of Muslim Scholars from around the UK resulted in agreement of a number of changes. They included the modifying of the Race Relations Act to give Muslims the same rights as Jews and Sikhs along with the tightening of the Press Complaints Commission Code of Conduct. He said the code should include rules stopping the publication of the Prophet of Muhammad. "Insulting the Prophet of Islam is worse than insulting your wife, children or sister. It happens once, it happens twice but a third time you are going to take action. Enough is enough, we have to get back to being a civil society." He said there had not been such an insult to Islam since Salman Rushdie published his book, the Satanic Verses. "There has been reports of very deep offence because of the cartoons, and also deep anger and frustration that once again we have not learned the lesson from the last time the Prophet Muhammad was insulted. "It is as if the media around the world just don't get it, the publication of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in itself is a deep insult." dailymail.co.uk

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