COPENHAGEN, Oct 6: Denmark’s national TV2 channel broadcast on Friday excerpts from a video denigrating the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). The video was made by members of an extreme-right party.
Filmed in August, the video shows young adherents of the Danish People’s Party mocking the Holy Prophet during a summer party.
The images were shown on TV2 only fleetingly, with a youth playing the part of the Prophet visible only from the back, as well as a drawing.
The editor-in-chief of the television station, Lars Bennike, emphasised that the purpose of ‘showing the short video sequence was not at all to show the drawings or the antics of the youths’ in the DPP.
“Our decision to broadcast this sequence was only due to the fact that the president of the youth branch of the party has distanced himself from this gathering,” he said.
“We thought it was interesting politically and that this justified showing the video,” he added.—AFP
