US media AP posted pig images offensive to Islam
- From: "Sun" <suns@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 Feb 2006 04:05:29 -0800
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- The Associated Press protested Wednesday the
misleading inclusion of an AP photograph in a pamphlet purporting to
show images offensive to Islam.
The picture shows a bearded man wearing fake pig ears, a pig nose, and
a pink embroidered cap on his head. He was wearing the costume while
participating in a pig-squealing contest at an annual festival in a
farm village in southern France last summer.
The AP sent out the photo describing the pig-squealing contest on Aug.
14, 2005. The photo had no connection with Islam or the caricatures of
the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper in September.
A blurry, black-and-white copy of the picture was included in a
brochure that a delegation of Danish Muslim leaders carried on a
Mideast tour to Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey, in December and
January.
"The photograph was taken at an agriculture fair last summer and is
totally unrelated to the current controversy," said AP's Director of
Photography Santiago Lyon.
Jack Stokes, an AP spokesman, said the picture was used "completely out
of context and without permission.
"AP is attempting to contact the distributors of this unrelated photo
to protest its misrepresentation and demand that they stop
immediately," he said.
The brochure purported to show examples of anti-Muslim images from
Europe, said Ahmed Akkari, a spokesman for the Danish Muslim
delegation. Included were 12 controversial drawings of the Prophet
Muhammad that were published in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, he
said.
The group received copies of the AP picture in threatening anonymous
letters last year, Akkari said.
"We did not find it ourselves," he told the AP, saying he had been
unaware of the origin of the photograph and said he believed it was
sent to the group as an example of a provocation.
When told about the background of the original AP photo, Akkari said:
"I have no comments."
The group is a loose coalition of about 30 Danish Muslim organizations,
according to group members. The coalition doesn't have a formal name
but one of its larger members is Copenhagen's Islamic Faith Community.
Newspapers and analysts say the coalition represents about 15 percent
of the country's 200,000 Muslims.
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