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A series of photographs of sign-bearing Muslim protesters were taken during a 3 February 2006 protest staged in London by Muslims angry over the publication in Scandinavian periodicals of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad (not as a demonstation of Islam as a religion of peace): An estimated 500 to 700 demonstrators marched from Regent's Park Mosque to the Danish embassy in Knightsbridge during the protest. MP David Davis, the shadow home secretary, condemned messages displayed on some of the protesters' placards as an incitement to murder: MP David Winnick, a member of the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, called for the prosecution and deportation of some of the demonstrators: Other Muslims maintained the protesters were extremists not representative of mainstream British Muslims: No arrests were made at the time, according to police, due to the danger posed by the size and nature of the crowd: Although it has been circulated with the set of images displayed above, the following photograph likely comes from a completely different protest held in Luton a couple of years earlier:
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