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JAPAN MUSLIM PEACE FEDERATION

Bessho 2-16-3-702, Hachioji-Shi, Tokyo 192-0363;

Mobile: 09033566207, Phone: 0426-76-4982, Fax: 0426-57-3551 email: muslim@muslimrevival.com

Contact person: Abdel-rahman Mohammad, Secretary, JMPF: 09091390490

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His Excellency Mr. Freddy Svane,

Ambassador of Denmark,

Tokyo

March 3, 2008

Subject: Letter of thanks and about future course of action

Your Excellency,

1 We take this opportunity to thank you for the nice meeting and discussion we had with you last Friday. We also thank you further for the elaborate arrangements you had made to welcome us by preparing a special signboard welcoming the undersigned on behalf of your embassy. We regard it as an honor not for any specific individual but for all the 37 Muslim organizations participating in this matter.

2 Some more Muslim organizations also want to include their names in support of the Protest Letter submitted to Your Excellency on Friday. I will convey their names to you later.

3 We also welcome Your Excellency's repeated offer for dialogue by coming to our places or centers, even your readiness to go to Osaka, as expressed to our delegate from Osaka Muslim Association last Friday. We will make some specific plans in this respect in our next meeting of our Federation. However, one idea is floating in the minds of some of our members. The idea is to have a joint Press Conference at Japan Press Center in Hibiya and both sides to reply to the questions of Japanese Media. Before making any final decision in our next meeting, we would like to know the views of Your Excellency in this regard.

4 We also want to thank your Prime Minster for his statement that he does not support demonizing any specific religious or ethnic group in Denmark. As all members of our delegation emphasized on Friday, we request the Prime Minister to frame laws in Denmark in support of his own statement. The 17 newspapers in your country do not respect the position of your government and they are repeating the same biased demonizing of a specific religious group, i.e. ourselves, on the false plea of freedom of speech, which your Prime Minster does not support.

5 As the latest figures up to the end of 2007 show that the population of Muslims has now increased to 1.87 billion, instead of 1.2 billion as we had been writing in previous letters. They will not be satisfied unless the words of your Prime Minister are transformed into some sort of legal action. Muslim governments may ban your goods or not but, on individual level, these billions of Muslims in the world will continue the boycott unless their sentiments are pacified by framing of blasphemy laws protecting all religious figureheads including Islam and Christianity.

6 Unfortunately, the blasphemy laws in Britain protect only Christianity and not Islam. But the major newspapers in England are not like those in your country. They follow some ethical code and journalistic traditions. It is a matter of shame that the newspapers in your country are not ready to follow any ethical standards and have continued demonizing Islam repeatedly. Laws may not be necessary in those countries where the media follows some self-imposed ethics as in Japan, United States or even in some European countries. Therefore, we request the Prime Minister of Denmark to enact laws respecting the religion of 1.87 billion Muslims in the world in interest of Denmark itself to promote its goodwill among all people in this global village of about 6.5 billion residents.

7 After reading the news of our delegation's meeting with your Excellency, we are receiving encouraging mails and suggestions from all over the world. We are reproducing below one of them, which sheds better light on our position. It is from the Editor of an Islamic monthly magazine, IMPACT, which was being published from London for last several years.

----- Original Message -----
From: "M Faruqi" <editor@impact-magazine.com>
To: <786@muslimrevival.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Photos of Meeting with Danish ambassador and
demonstration-------AND-----
> Wa-alaikum assalam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu
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> Congratulations to all for conveying to the Danish government through their ambassador in Tokyo their expression of revulsion as well as rejection of the willful sacrilege against the Prophet, peace be upon him, going on in Denmark. But what did the Danish ambassador say to the Muslim delegation?
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> However, as to your demand that the Danish government enact a law against sacrilege, I copy below a news story (Jyllands-Posten Rejected Jesus Satire) which shows that given good sense and moral will, newspapers can and do refuse to publish profane and blasphemous caricature or stories.…………………>

May be you can tell this to the ambassador.
> SPIEGEL ONLINE - February 8, 2006, 06:26 PM
> URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,399840,00.html
> COMIC KAMPF
> Jyllands-Posten Rejected Jesus Satire
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> By Carsten Volkery
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> With the publication of 12 Muhammad cartoons, Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper wanted to send a message about self-censorship. A competing Danish paper is now reporting that the paper rejected similar satirical comics of Jesus.
> Do the editors of Jyllands-Posten apply double standards?
> REUTERS
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> Do the editors of Jyllands-Posten apply double standards?
> Although the strife over the Muhammad cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten already feels like it's been going on for a small eternity, new angles continue to pop up each day. The latest comes from the Danish daily Politiken, conservative Jyllands-Posten's more left-leaning competitor.
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> On Saturday, Politiken printed a series of caricatures of Jesus on its editorial page. Next to them, the paper reprinted an e-mail exchange from April 2003 in which a leading Jyllands-Posten editor rejected publication of satirical cartoons depicting Jesus Christ. His reasoning?
> "I don't think the readers of Jyllands-Posten would be pleased with the drawings. I think they would cause an outrage. That's why I won't use them."
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> That line of reasoning, of course, is raising eyebrows this week. Does the newspaper responsible for launching the battle over the Muhammad caricatures, which now presents itself as a champion of free speech, apply a different standard for its Christian readers? "It does look a little like hypocrisy," said Politiken opinion page editor Jacob Fuglsand.
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> Reached by telephone, Jens Kaiser, the Jyllands-Posten editor responsible for the email said he now regrets the wording of the message. "I could not foresee that my kind refusal would be published three years later. My fault was that I didn't tell him what I really meant. The cartoons were just bad."
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> Ultimately, however, the Jesus cartoons were an unfortunate coincidence. The self-employed illustrator responsible for them, Christoffer Zieler, sent the unsolicited Jesus caricatures to the newspaper just before Easter 2003. "He suggested that we print them on Easter Sunday," Kaiser recalled, but he rejected them, "like 95 percent of all submissions." Kaiser also explained that he often tried to use more polite methods of brushing off illustrators than to simply tell them their work was lousy.
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But in today's loaded atmosphere, the e-mail is proving explosive. The decision showed a "double standard" a member of the Muslim interest group told Britain's Guardian. Politiken first learned of the drawings after the illustrator contacted the newspaper. "I found that it was a nice story that opens a new angle on the dilemmas an editor faces," Fuglsand said. Of course, editors also love nothing better the opportunity to take a stab at the competition.
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