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| How to cut off your nose to spite your face |
| 2006-02-07 |
| The Pakistan Medical Association has vowed not to prescribe medicines from firms based in some European countries where controversial cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed were published, said Shahid Rao, the body's general secretary for Punjab province. The association will boycott drugs from Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Germany and France to protest the 'blasphemous' drawings, Rao said. 'We have taken a unanimous decision and it will be immediately implemented in Pakistan,' Rao told AFP. 'Doctors in the country are very motivated on this issue,' he said. 'We would use alternate medicines in future till a public apology comes from these countries.' Pharmacists have also vowed not to sell such medicines, Rao said. The association is advising patients against using medicines from the offending countries if they are mistakenly prescribed by doctors, he added. The recent republication of the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September, has sparked angry protests and attacks against Western interests in parts of the Muslim world. Many Muslim countries, institutions and organizations have called for a boycott of products from countries where the media have carried the caricatures. Rallies condemning the cartoons have been held almost daily in Pakistan. Hundreds of traders in the central city of Multan burned the Danish, French and German flags on Sunday. On Saturday, Pakistan's foreign ministry summoned the ambassadors of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary, Norway and the Czech Republic to lodge protests. It is not immediately clear whether the Pakistan Medical Association is planning to boycott medicines from any of the other European nations that published the cartoons. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Wish the F#$ks would boycott food and water. |
| Posted by: GoldenShellback 2006-02-07 14:53 |
| #1 How about electronics (cell phones), cars (Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi) and other products? Wish the cartoons were published also in Russia. AK47 and russian-made RPG's boycott, baby! ;-) |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-02-07 10:37 |