Sudan president orders boycott of Danish goods and officials

Sudan president orders boycott of Danish goods and officials




February 24, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese president Omar Hassan Al-Bashir ordered today that no Danish diplomat be received in the country as well as expelling Danish humanitarian organizations and boycotting Danish goods.


Hundreds of Sudanese Muslims protest against the reprinting of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers, after Friday prayers in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, Feb.22, 2008. Arabic slogans read as ’ boycott Danish products’ . (AP)The Sudanese president made this decision after a meeting of the executive council in the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) to protest re-publication of cartoons considered insulting to prophet Muhammad.

A leading figure in the ruling party, Hassan Osman Rizg, said that Sudan wants to coordinate with Arab and Muslim countries for similar measures “to respond forcefully to the attacks against Islam and Muslims”.

The drawing was one of 12 cartoons that sparked protests in Muslim countries when they were first published in 2006. Danish newspapers said they reprinted it this month in support of free speech after three men were arrested in an alleged plot to kill the cartoonist.

Rizg also said that the government agencies will issue regulations to enforce the decisions taken by the NCP as early as Wednesday when a “million man march” is planned to protest the cartoons.

However Karin Soerensen, the Danish Charge d’Affaires in Khartoum told Associated Press that he had not been notified of the decision taken by the NCP.

Sudan’s president has in the past used the issue of the cartoons as an excuse to reject Scandinavian peacekeepers in Darfur. Also the former UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland of Norway was barred from entering Darfur for the same reason.

Sudan’s foreign Ministry spokesman at the time, Jamal Ibrahim said that “because of the special circumstances of the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad, the local authorities said it was not advisable to welcome him [Egeland] at this time”

But Egeland dismissed Sudan’s justification and said that the government doesn’t want him “to see how bad it has become in Southern Darfur”



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Actually majestic just out of talkin abt wt da president did m gona say sth which i read in another fourm n i believe it....we r muslims by ourself did it i mean if they didnt try 2 kill da artist they wouldnt reprint da pics ya?

the newspapers were aware that this act would offend not only Danish Muslims but the world's other 1.3 billion Muslims who have nothing to do with the alleged three-man terror plot.It was done on purpose,The danish media could of chosen another subject as a test case to reassert the freedom of speech ,but they knew how much these pictures hurt the islamic world,and that is exactly what they want!

yup u r right but really do u think dat da Danish government didnt know abt it b4 printin da pics as they saied?