Jordan media to protest Mohammed cartoon

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

AMMAN (AFP) — At least 18 Jordanian media outlets will launch a campaign to protest the reprinting of a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in Danish newspapers, organisers said on Sunday.

Independent newspapers and websites, including Islamists ones, will run a series of articles and editorials from Wednesday against "attempts to distort Islam's image," the editor of Fact International weekly Zakaria Sheikh said.

"We will stand united and firm to fight Christian Zionists who seek to harm the image of Islam under the pretext of defending the freedom of expression," Sheikh told AFP.

"They are in fact violating this freedom. They use the media to implement their scheme, and we will use the same means to counter them."

The campaign under the...