The Blessed Model of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and the Caricatures — Page 18
sa ± _________________________________________________________________ and our missionary has also reported that one of them apologised; had expressed regret. The immediate response of the Ahmadiyya ± Muslim Community at the publication of the caricatures The other Muslims are incited to strike actions, damage and destruction and such is their response. The Ahmadiyya ± Muslim Community promptly reacted to this in the manner they should have. The Ahmad s promptly communicated with ™ ± ¿ the newspapers. This is not a matter that took place today that they are taking strike actions in February 2006. This incident took place last year in September. When the mischief was made how did we respond? As I said, this took place in September or maybe early October, and our Missionary promptly prepared a detailed article which was sent to the newspaper that had published the caricature; a protest was made at this publication. The teaching of the Promised Messiah was explained and they were told that this is our as way of protest. We will not launch a rally but we will do the Jihad of the pen with you and express our feelings of sadness at the publication of the images. They were told that freedom of conscience notwithstanding, it is not meant to hurt the sentiment of others. Anyway, this was met with a positive response. An article was sent to the newspaper which was published. Danish people responded very well to it. As our Mission House received telephone calls and letters with 18