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Indonesia condemns video mocking Prophet Mohammad
Indonesia's Foreign Ministry summoned Danish Ambassador Niels Erik Andersen on Tuesday to express their condemnation of a video showing right-wing youths in Denmark mocking Prophet Mohammad.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 October 11, 2006
Jakarta: Indonesia's Foreign Ministry summoned Danish Ambassador Niels Erik Andersen on Tuesday to express their condemnation of a video showing right-wing youths in Denmark mocking Prophet Mohammad.
Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda called his Danish counterpart Per Stig Moeller by phone later that day and conveyed concern that the insults to the Prophet Mohammad had “happened again and again."
He added that Moeller "expressed his regret and said the Danish Government disagreed with (the video) and rejected the tasteless acts."
The video, which was produced by a group of artists calling itself Defending Denmark, showed participants of a drawing contest displaying an image of a camel with Mohammad's head and beer cans for humps.
A second drawing showed a turbaned, bearded man next to a plus sign and a bomb, all equalling a mushroom cloud.
Muslim clerics from Egypt and Indonesia recently protested against the video.
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