Update to the Denmark situation

The Mohammed Cartoon and the Widening European-Muslim DivideFebruary 02, 2006 18 39 GMT

The owner of the French newspaper France Soir fired the paper's managing editor Feb. 2 for reprinting controversial editorial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb-shaped turban. The cartoons, first published in September 2005 by Danish paper Jyllands-Posten, have sparked a series of protests by Muslims in Europe and the Middle East -- adding to simmering European-Muslim tensions.

In reaction to the cartoons, Syria and Saudi Arabia have recalled their ambassadors to Denmark, Libya closed its embassy in Copenhagen and Muslims have led a boycott of Danish products in some Muslim countries. In Britain, the radical Islamist group Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamaah has called for demonstrations at the Danish, Norwegian, French, German and Italian embassies to protest publication of the cartoons in those countries.
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