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  • Muslims Picket 'Philadephia Inquirer' After It Runs Cartoon

    02/07/2006 10:26:38 AM PST · by summer · 152 replies · 4,038+ views
    editorsandpublishers.com ^ | Feb. 7, 2005 | E&P Staff
    NEW YORK -- On Saturday, the Philadelphia Inquirer became one of the first major U.S. papers to carry a drawing featuring Muhammad -- with a lit bomb stuck in his turban -- that have sparked riots abroad. On Monday, more than two dozen Muslims offended by that decision picketed the newspaper. "It's disrespectful to us as a people," Asim Abdur-Rashid, an imam with the Majlis Ash'Shura, an umbrella group for mosques in the Delaware Valley, told the Inquirer for a story today. "It's disrespectful to our prophet to imply that he's a prophet of violence." The group may call for...