Last week Dagbladet published one of the infamous Muhammad caricatures – this one showing the prophet as a pig – as an illustration to an article on the caricature being used on the secret police’s Facebook page. The publication (shortly after Aftenpostens re-publication of the caricatures) has meet with massive protests and demonstrations in Norway.
Saturday and Monday nights, approximately 1000 cab drivers of Muslim cultural background parked their cars in Oslo in a silent protest against the re-publication.
Norwegian police, as well as representatives of Islamic Council Norway (IRN) and Islamic Cultural Center (ICC) in Oslo is expressing worries about a planned demonstration Friday. The demonstration is being organized on Facebook by Arfan Bhatti, who in 2008 was convicted for an attack on the synagogue in Oslo.
Shoaib Sultan of IRN, just as imam Mehboob ur-Rehman (ICC), advice against the demonstration. Both express worries that it easily could degenerate into a violent protest which would do (even more) damage to the general opinion of Muslims in Norway.
There are currently reports of about 3000 persons joining a supposedly calm demonstration in Oslo.
