Rabat - Japanese newspaper The Tokyo Shimbun apologized to Muslims for having reprinted mocking drawings of the Prophet Mohammed that were published in French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
Rabat – Japanese newspaper The Tokyo Shimbun apologized to Muslims for having reprinted mocking drawings of the Prophet Mohammed that were published in French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
“We have offended Muslims. We offer a candid apology,” The Tokyo Shimbun said in its Jan. 29 morning issue.
The Tokyo Shimbun ran the cover of Charlie Hebdo’s “Survivors'” edition that was published after the massacre that claimed the lives of a number of the weekly’s reporters and cartoonists earlier this month.
The cover featured a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed.
“We did so to give readers food for thought in posing the question of whether (the Charlie Hebdo cartoon) concerns freedom of expression or is just an insult to the religion,” the Jan. 29 apology said. “We had no intent to insult or provoke Islam.”
The newspaper said it received letters of protest from Muslim groups, mainly the Pakistani population living in Japan.
