日本語 Shueisha (Japanese Manga Publisher) has posted an online apologisation regarding the scenes of “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure” in which had one of the villians reading Qur’an.
The letter can be read in Japanese, English and Arabic:
English version:
http://www.shueisha.co.jp/info/index_e.html
Arabic version:
http://www.shueisha.co.jp/info/index_a.html
Japanese Version:
http://www.shueisha.co.jp/info/index_j.html
Japan Times has an article in it’s news regarding it:
Sheikh Abdul Hamid Attrash, chairman of the Fatwa (religious edict) Committee at Al-Azhar, the highest Sunni authority, based in Cairo, called the cartoon an insult to Islam.
“This scene depicts Muslims as terrorists, which is not true at all,” he said. “This is an insult to the religion, and the producers would be considered to be enemies of Islam.”
Responding to the accusation, the Shueisha official said it was “a simple mistake.”
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080523a1.html
