issue closed. At a demonstration in Nairobi, Kenya, one demonstrator dies in a stampede. According to Reuters, "Kenyan police opened fire at hundreds of people [...], wounding at least one.". Spiegel Online (from AP): Molotov-cocktails thrown at French embassy in Tehran. Muslims hold the big rallies in Asia. In the Republic of Macedonia, both newspapers Vreme and Vest print the twelve cartoons. The Danish ambassadors and diplomatic staff in Iran, Syria, and Indonesia leave after receiving threats. Muslims hold protests in the Serbian town of Novi Pazar, burning Western flags. 11 February Naser Khader Muslim member of Danish parliament and one of the founding members of Moderate Muslims has asked the Minister of Religion in Denmark to investigate Ahmad Abu Laban's words in the Friday prayer in the mosque at Dortheavej in Copenhagen where Abu Laban described Ayaan Hirsi Ali as a rat in a hole. EuroNews shows one of the cartoons in a newstrailer, which was originally from a TV programme from Switzerland. The Angolan newspaper Agora prints the cartoons. 12 February The Irish president Mary McAleese condemned the drawings and concluded "Muslims have every right to feel angry" 13 February EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana meets with the Organisation of the Islamic Conference's (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu to defuse the crisis. Ihsanoglu called upon the EU Parliament to pass legislation to combat Islamophobia: "People in the Muslim world are starting to feel this is a new 9/11 against them". A leading Iranian newspaper launches a faux competition asking people to submit cartoons about the Holocaust. The Hamshahri daily says the competition is to test the boundaries of free speech for Westerners. The move is seen as retaliation for the publication in a Danish paper of images satirising Muhammad. Australian cartoonist, Michael Leunig, becomes the victim of a hoax involving the cartoon competition Iranian newspaper, Hamshahri. About 25 Muslim graves are desecrated in Denmark. Mr. Doudou Diène, United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance reported: "Legally, the Government of every State party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is bound by three articles dealing with the relationship between freedom of religion and freedom of opinion and expression, namely article 18, which protects freedom of religion, subject to such limitations as are necessary to protect public safety and order or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others