Historien om tegningene av profeten i Jyllands-Posten skal opp på neste toppmøte for Konferansen av islamske stater, opplyste Egypts ambassadør i København fredag.

Han sa medlemslandene var meget oppbrakt over tegningene og det faktum at den danske regjering ikke hadde foretatt seg noe. Saken ville få konsekvenser for samarbeidet mellom muslimske land og Danmark, antydet han.

“We have been informed by our foreign minister that this caricature affair will be on the agenda at a special summit of the Islamic Conference,” said Mohab Nasr Mostafa Mahdy, the embassy’s deputy ambassador.
“This is a collective initiative taken by the (Organization of the) Islamic Conference (OIC) and Egypt played a leading role,” he told AFP.
Images of the prophet are considered blasphemous under Islam.
On Wednesday, Egypt’s ambassador in Beirut, Hussein Darrar, said he and Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh had discussed which measures to take against Denmark following the Jyllands-Posten paper’s publication of 12 Mohammed cartoons in September.
“We have asked the Danish government to take measures, but have not received a response to our request. As a result, we have decided not to continue talks with Denmark on the issue of human rights and discrimination and other measures concerning Denmark’s” agenda within international bodies, Darrar told reporters.