Australian Cleric: We Wouldn’t Want Anything to Happen to Your Nice Little Country
Charles Johnson
Sun Feb 5, 2006 at 11:04 am PST • Views: 234
A warning to Australian media, from the general secretary of the Board of Imams of Victoria: Don’t reprint cartoons: Sheik.
A senior Islamic cleric has called on Australia’s media not to publish the cartoons which have sparked riots across the Muslim world.
Sheik Fehmi El-Imam, the general secretary of the Board of Imams of Victoria, warned reprinting the cartoons here could “disturb people who can do things that we don’t want them to do”.
“In some parts of the world there is rioting against the Danish and the Dutch, we don’t want that in Australia,” the sheik said today.
“Unfortunately, New Zealand has (published the cartoons) … I’m trying to avoid, to put far away, any possibility of disturbing the peace in Australia.”
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