India: Cartoon Rage rioters stone newspaper office, destroy 4 buses; police file charges against...newspaper

Posted by Robert on September 2, 2008 7:08 PM

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Which is the outrage?

More Motoon Madness, this time in India: "Police detained agitators angered by Prophet Mohammed's cartoon," from [1] ANI, September 2 (thanks to Raj Dave):

Vellore, Sept 2 (ANI): Police in Tamil Nadu detained 200 agitators of the Muslim community protesting against a local daily that published a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad. Dinamalar a leading daily in the state published the cartoon on September 2.

The cartoon angered Muslim community, who first stoned the office of the newspaper and later destroyed 4 state run buses. Police has reportedly filed a case against the newspaper and is investigating the issue further.


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/09/india-cartoon-rage-rioters-stone-newspaper-office-destroy-4-buses-police-file-charges-againstnewspap.html

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