Archbishop of Wales Grovels, Censors Magazine

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Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 8:28 am PST • Views: 205

Utterly embarrassing groveling from the Archbishop of Wales today, after the church’s magazine printed a completely inoffensive cartoon—a cartoon that actually had a message of tolerance: Church recalls ‘Prophet’ magazine.

The Church in Wales has recalled 500 copies of its magazine featuring a cartoon caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.

The editor has resigned after the image was published in the Church’s Welsh-language magazine Y Llan. The Archbishop of Wales has apologised to the Muslim Council of Wales, which accepted the “unfortunate mistake”. …

The Church in Wales printed the cartoon to illustrate an article in the February edition of Y Llan - or ‘Church’ in English - about the shared ancestry of Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

The drawing - which was from the French magazine France Soir - shows the Prophet Muhammad sitting on a heavenly cloud with Buddha, and Christian and Jewish deities. He is being told “don’t complain… we’ve all been caricatured here”.

The Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan told the BBC: “The article was perfectly OK, but for some reason, the editor decided to print one of these cartoons which was a gross error of judgement. It no way reflects the policy of the church in Wales and when I saw it I was totally horrified.

“We recalled all the papers, I personally picked up some from some churches and they have all been pulped.

“I’ve unreservedly apologised to my Muslim colleagues and they’ve been very gracious and I’ve said to them this in no way reflects the policy or attitude in the Church in Wales.”

It’s not the policy of the Church in Wales to advocate tolerance of all religions, by all religions?

Pitiful.

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