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SMSs call for boycott of Danish products
DUBAI/SHARJAH - Emails and SMSs in Arabic urging a boycott of Danish products are doing the rounds in the UAE, according to several Muslim residents who received the boycott messages after the Danish newspapers sparked the blasphemous cartoon controversy again.
- By:
- Afkar Abdullah And Amira Agarib (Our staff reporters)
The recent republication of the offensive cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) by several Danish dailies has sparked anger among Muslims around the globe.
Three of Denmark's biggest daily newspapers were among the large number of newspapers which republished the 2005 cartoons in protest against a plot to murder the cartoonist, which was recently foiled by the Danish police.
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The reprinting of these offensive cartoons has provoked much anger and resentment throughout the Islamic world.
According to a group of Arab residents in Dubai, “Through SMSs and emails, we are calling for a boycott of Danish products.”
Some SMSs also claimed that several cooperative societies in the UAE had already removed Danish products from their shelves.
However, Ibrahim Al Bahr, operations manager of Union Cooperative, denied removing any Danish products from their shelves.
Faisal Al Telal, a UAE resident who received the boycott message, noted, “The Danish dailies dared to repeat the offensive cartoons because of the lack of any unified move by Muslims to condemn the act.”Adil Al Marzouqi, a scholar at the Dubai Islamic Affairs Department, while strongly condemning the reprinting of the offensive cartoons said, the person who had attempted to assassinate the cartoonist was “not a true Muslim as Islam forbids such killing”.
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