Embassy of Iran protests against printing of caricatures of Prophet Mohammed

These words are from the statement by the Embassy of Iran in Baku as a sign of protest to printing of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in the press of some European countries.

It is said in the statement entered APA from the press-service of the Embassy that purposive repeated printing of such caricatures first in papers of Denmark and then of France, Sweden, Germany, Norway and BBC channel aroused hatred and protest in the whole Islamic world.

The Embassy particularly emphasizing solidarity of Moslems of the world in this issue considers that those printing caricatures are not right explaining their action as an appearance of the democracy and freedom of speech: "This case revealed that the democracy is a tool in hands of those who follow freedom of speech and showed that if the democracy becomes estranged from divine ethics and moral values, it will lead to formation of a gift for being entrapped which violates rights of followers of the divine religions and weakens fundamentals of peaceful co-existence of nations and religions. The democracy does not mean freedom of humiliation and hostility."