Hundreds rally in Australia over negative portrayal of Islam and Prophet

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Sunday 25 Jan 2015 - 12:16 Makkah mean time-5-4-1436 Sydney, Australia (IINA) - Hundreds of Muslims rallied in Sydney to protest against negative media coverage of Islam and French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s depiction of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), The independent reported. Some of the 800 demonstrators in the Lakemba suburb which has a large population of Lebanese Australians held up placards with the slogan “Je suis Muslim” (“I am Muslim”). Other protesters held up signs saying, “Insult to one prophet is an insult to all prophets and mercy to mankind”. The slogan was a response to the latest front cover of Charlie Hebdo about the Prophet. Similar demonstrations have been taking place around the world with one in the Philippines that drew around 1,500 Muslims who burned a mock-up of a Charlie Hebdo cover featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protest against “Zionist double standards” of the magazine. SM/IINA