A Peaceful, Tolerant Day of Anger

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Thu Feb 2, 2006 at 8:10 pm PST • Views: 407

Sheikh Yussef al-Qaradawi, best pal of London mayor Ken Livingstone and leading frontman for the global jihad, is calling for a “day of anger:” Day of anger threatened over cartoons of Prophet.

You know, a peaceful, tolerant day of anger.

A leading hard-line Muslim cleric, Sheikh Yussef al-Qaradawi, called for the day of anger to protest against the printing of the cartoons - first published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September - in other European papers.

“Let Friday be an international day of anger for God and his prophet,” said the sheikh, who is the head of the International Association of Muslim Scholars. He is one of the Arab world’s most popular television preachers and made a controversial visit to London in July 2004 as a guest of the mayor, Ken Livingstone.

Ahmed Akkari, a Muslim theologian from Copenhagen, said he had attended a meeting this week with the Danish intelligence service, which called the situation “very, very tense”.

He said that a text message had been sent to the mobile phones of young Muslims “telling people not to react to provocations from Right-wing extremists, like burning the Koran, but I know some Muslims will not listen to our message”.

He said the level of anger was “very high” in the Muslim community across Europe and the wider world.

“It is more likely [than not] that any minute we will hear of violence unless the police can control the situation.”

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