Image in Magazine Angers Muslims
Students angered by an illustration in Time magazine that they consider offensive to Islam threw stones at police and burned several cars in Indian-held Kashmir, and Malaysia ordered the magazine pulled from newsstands.
Police in Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, used bamboo canes and tear gas to disperse the nearly 5,000 people in a dozen different locations protesting the April 16 issue of Time, which contained an illustration of the prophet Muhammad meeting the archangel Gabriel to receive God’s revelation.
Illustrations or images of Muhammad are considered blasphemy by Muslims. The editor of Time’s Asia edition apologized.
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