Monday, April 2, 2007

Victim wears Mohammad cartoon T-shirt to trial

clipped from www.nzherald.co.nz
MADRID - A woman who lost her husband in the 2004 Madrid train bombings displayed an infamous cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad on her T-shirt in front of 29, mostly Muslim, suspects on trial for the attacks today.

The woman's white T-shirt showed Mohammad wearing a bomb as a turban -- one of a series published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten which unleashed violent protests by some Muslims last year.

Ten bombs ripped through four commuter trains on March 11, 2004, killing 191 people -- attacks which public prosecutors blame on a group of Islamist militants inspired by al-Qaeda.

The woman sat in the front row of the court wearing the T-shirt for around half-an-hour before getting up, walking up to the glass cage containing the defendants and finally walking out of the court, judicial sources said.

She later received support from psychologists drafted to help victims' families through the trial, Spanish media reported.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The Madrid train bombing was the work of a tiny group that lies in the margins of the Islamic World. It is widely acknowledged that this group suffers from a chronic lack of popularity.
Yet, by brandishing cartoons that are insulting the prophet of Islam, this lady is providing a great service to the bombers. Indeed, by upsetting 1 billion Muslims worldwide, she has provided their "cause" with extra recruits.
While perfectly understanding her grief, I think she would have better directed her anger toward the perpetrators themselves, and not becoming herself abusive toward hundreds of millions of people.