Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed hopes, that Muslim Leaders manage to settle down the situation around "cartoon scandal". Putin said about it in the interview for Spanish mass media. He expressed his regret about the situation in the world in connection with religious confrontation.
Putin has underlined that any provocations in this field are inadmissible, and before publication something doubtful it is necessary to think twice. Putin condemned any manifestations of this kind, including cartoons, insulting the feelings of believers, bringing up split between confessions.
In September 2005 Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published caricature comics of 12 pictures. On one of them Mahomet was depicted as a terrorist with turban in the shape of a bomb.
The cartoon was republished one of Norwegian editions. On the first of February, when the scandal was in its bloom already, French and German newspapers published the cartoons too, which made matters still worse.
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