Danish MPs refuse cartoon apology
Danish MPs have cancelled a trip to Iran after Tehran demanded they apologise for the republication of cartoons deemed offensive to Islam.
by Thomas Buch-Andersen
BBC News
February 16, 2008
http://www.islamist-watch.org/263/danish-mps-refuse-cartoon-apology
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Two days before the scheduled trip, Tehran demanded the MPs condemn the cartoon on their arrival in Iran.
The row follows the arrest on Tuesday of three men for allegedly planning to murder cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
The following day, 11 Danish papers reprinted his drawing depicting the Prophet with a bomb in his turban.
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