FILE PHOTO: France's Grand Rabbi Gilles Bernheim listens to Mohamed Moussaoui (R), President of the French Muslim Council, after attending the New Year's speech by France's President Nicolas Sarkozy to France's religious communities at the Elysee Palace in Paris, January 21, 2010. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
PARIS (Reuters) - A senior French Muslim leader urged fellow Muslims on Tuesday to ignore cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad rather than resorting to violence in a call for moderation amid outrage across the Muslim world.
The cartoons have become a focus of controversy after an 18-year-old student of Chechen origin beheaded a teacher for showing the images to his pupils as part of a civics lesson.
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