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Cult Watch Title: time to mock islam muslims again and the child sex guy Muhammad COPENHAGEN — Danish state TV on Friday, October 6, aired video footage showing young members of a Danish party mocking Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him). Filmed in August, the video shows young adherents of the Danish People's Party (DPP) – a political ally of the centre-right coalition led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen - mocking Prophet Muhammad during a summer party, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). Participants in the summer gathering were competing who could draw the Prophet in the most humiliating and laughable manner. One cartoon appeared to depict the Prophet as a camel, urinating and drinking beer. A song playing in the background contains the lyrics, "The camel Muhammad has four beers…" Some other participants portrayed the Prophet dressed in a turban and wearing a belt with explosives as others look on in laughter. The video was filmed by Martin Rosengaard Knudsen who posed as a member of the party for several months to document attitudes among young members. The footage comes a year after Denmark's mass circulation Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons lampooning the Prophet, sparking furor in the Muslim world. The blasphemous cartoons, including one showing the Prophet with a bomb-shaped turban, were later reprinted by European newspapers on claims of freedom of expression. The Danish premier has regretted the hurt caused to Muslims by the cartoons, but has refused to apologize under the pretext of free speech. Mockery The offensive footage has immediately drawn fire the Danish Muslim leaders and party officials. "It is a mockery of Muslims," Raed Helehl, the head of the Copenhagen-based European Committee for Honoring the Prophet (ECHP), told the Doha-based Aljazeera channel. "I would have wished the offensive footage had never appeared in Denmark, particularly after the recent cartoon crisis," he said, calling on the DPP to take an action against its members involved in the video. Zubair Butt Hussain, a spokesman for the Muslims in Dialogue group, said the organization was not surprised by Danish video. "The Danish People's Party has through its history made a virtue to make humiliating and generalized statements about minority groups, especially Muslims," Hussain said. The DPP rose to prominence in a 2001 election on a platform based on a strong anti-immigrant stance and support for increased spending on schools and care for the elderly. The party has been a political ally of Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen's centre-right coalition since 2001. It won more than 13 percent of the vote in last year's elections. Black History Qassem Said, spokesman for the Danish Islamic Community, blasted the DPP history against the Muslim minority. "This party has a black history against Muslims," said Said, whose group is an umbrella body grouping 27 Muslim organizations in Denmark. "They used to describe Islam Europe's cancer and associate it with fascism and Nazism." The Muslim activist called on the DPP leaders to punish the party members involved in the offensive video. "We have called the party leaders to sack those involved in the insulting footage." Kenneth Kristensen, the president of the DPP Youth, also blasted the video footage as "inconvenient". "It is not my kind of humor, and things would not have happened like that had I been present," he told the Nyhedsavisen newspaper, a daily free sheet. "This kind of gathering should not occur again," he added. The new footage comes amid an international uproar over recent anti-Islam remarks by Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict has triggered global storm of criticism after quoting criticism of Islam and Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus that everything Muhammad brought was evil and inhuman, "such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Coming short of a clear apology, Benedict said the Muslim reaction to his lecture was the result of "unfortunate misunderstanding" and that the quotes did not reflect his personal opinion.
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