Eurasia Insight:
KAZAKHSTAN: SAUDI REP CALLS FOR CONDEMNING SWEDISH PROPHET CARTOON
9/19/07
A EurasiaNet Partner Post from BBC Monitoring

Excerpt from report by Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency

Astana, 18 September: A representative from Saudi Arabia called on the secretariat of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions to condemn the recent publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in Swedish press.

"I call on members of the secretariat to condemn the recent publication in the Swedish press which insulted the noble Prophet Muhammad," the adviser of the Minister of Islamic Affairs, Religious Endowments, Call and Guidance for religious affairs of Saudi Arabia, Majid Bin-Abd-al-Aziz al-Turki, said at the meeting of the secretariat today.

"There were no any cases when somebody from Muslims defamed or affronted religious symbols of Judaism and Christianity. We see direct attack against Islam and Prophet Muhammad in the Western media," al-Turki said.

[Passage omitted: repetition; background information on publication of cartoons in Swedish media]

Editor’s Note: Source: Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency, Almaty, in Russian 0549 gmt 18 Sep 07