The president of the French Council of Moslems (CFCM), Dalil Boubakeur, on Wednesday angrily criticized the decision by a French daily to publish the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed which appeared in a Danish newspaper, reported the Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa). "This is horrible. We disapprove of this completely. It is a real provocation," Boubakeur said of the caricatures published by the daily France Soir on Wednesday. In addition, several groups belonging to Boubakeur's Council said they were considering filing a legal complaint against the newspaper. France Soir said it had decided to publish the caricatures "not because we like provocation but because they are the object of a worldwide controversy where nothing less is at stake than the balance and mutual limits between the respect for religious belief and the freedom of expression." The decision by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten to publish last September caricatures of Mohammed that many Moslems regard as offensive has led to angry protests and the boycott of Danish products. --SP 23 11 Local Time 20 11 GMT
