Egypt's parliamentary foreign affairs committee on Tuesday denounced a Swedish newspaper's cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, calling the image an act that stokes religious hatred. The committee urged Muslims globally to register their objections through their ambassadors and demanded accountability for those behind the publication.
The cartoon ran in Nerikes Allehanda on 18 August, accompanying an editorial about free expression and self-censorship. It appeared roughly two years after a Danish newspaper's Mohammed cartoons triggered deadly protests across the Muslim world in early 2006. Traditional Islamic belief prohibits any visual representation of the Prophet.
Historical summary. TurkishPress restated this wire report, first published in September 2007, in its own words.