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Downing Street condemns cartoon protestors Feb 6, 2006 Downing Street has condemned the behaviour of some Muslims protesting at caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed over the weekend as "completely unacceptable". No 10 said the police would have the Government's full support in any actions they wished to take as a result of the demonstrations outside the Danish Embassy in London. It followed calls from Peter Hain, the Northern Ireland Secretary, for police to "bear down heavily" on any protestors who broke the law during the demonstrations. Mr Hain said the actions of some Muslims demonstrating against the cartoons in London had been "completely unacceptable and intolerable".
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Incitement to carry out murder
In the Koran:
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Some protestors carried placards threatening a repeat of the September 11 and July 7 atrocities following the publication of the cartoons across Europe.
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Mass Murder................................ |
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Mass Rape................................... |
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Beheadings................................... |
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Crucifixions................................... |
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Robbery....................................... |
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Telling lies to non-muslims............. |
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Cutting off hands and feet.............. |
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Treason........................................ |
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Since when did teachings like those become legal in the western world? What kind of sense does it make to say you are a peaceful person - only to bow to those kinds of teachings daily? Amid violence in cities across the world - which has seen three deaths in Afghanistan and several embassies set on fire - British-based Muslim groups condemned extreme aspects of the demonstrations here. Mr Hain said wherever there was evidence that people had broken the law, they should be prosecuted. "Demonstrators on the streets over the weekend were doing things and saying things that are completely unacceptable and intolerable," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "The police need to bear down on them very heavily and chase down those who have committed offences and prosecute them where they can get the evidence, because there is freedom of speech on the one hand - that is sacrosanct. "But on the other hand, incitement to terror, incitement to suicide bombing - all of those are clear infringements of the law. "And where there is evidence to back that up, then prosecutions will obviously follow and the police are investigating that now."
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