Kuwait City: Dozens of Kuwaiti Islamists yesterday rallied outside the French embassy in a protest against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him).
Protesters carried banners in Arabic, French and English condemning the magazine which was the target of a deadly attack last week.
Dozens of members of the security forces stood guard at the embassy near the capital Kuwait City and prevented protesters from coming closer to the building.
The demonstrators later dispersed peacefully.
The Kuwaiti government has strongly condemned the terrorist attack against the French magazine and expressed condolences to the families of the victims.
The latest edition of Charlie Hebdo, published Wednesday, features a cartoon of the Prophet on its cover holding a “Je suis Charlie” sign under the headline “All is forgiven”.
Morocco warns foreign dailies
Rabat: Morocco yesterday condemned the publication of new cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) by the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and said it will ban foreign newspapers that carry them.
“We condemn terrorist attacks but also any offence against the Muslim religion, its symbols and its prophet,” Communication Minister Mustapha Khalil told reporters.
Morocco, he said, had decided impose a ban on “foreign publications that reproduce the new cartoons” of the prophet.
He did not identify those publications, but French dailies such as Le Monde and Liberation, which reproduced the latest Charlie Hebdo cartoons, were nowhere to be found at newspaper stands.
In its first edition since Islamist gunmen attacked the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people, the weekly newspaper on Wednesday once again featured the Prophet on its front page, drawing condemnation from several Muslim countries.
AFP
