Islamic group condemns Prophet cartoon ruling

A top Pakistani Islamic group today criticised the dismissal by a Danish court of a defamation lawsuit against a newspaper that published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed that sparked mass protests across the Muslim world this year.

“This was expected because the values and culture of the West are different from Muslim countries,” said Ameer ul-Azeem, spokesman for Jamaat-e-Islami, which belongs to an Islamic alliance that organised mass protests across Pakistan earlier this year.