A Queens-based Islamic group plans a rally today outside the United Nations in Manhattan to express condemnation of what it calls “horrible blasphemous images” of the prophet Muhammad published in European newspapers.
“To denigrate a religion and a historical figure is an act of blasphemy, not democratic freedom,” said a news release yesterday from the Islamic Circle of North America, a nonprofit Muslim organization with offices in the Jamaica section of Queens.
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