“Let us respect each other and avoid causing unnecessary hurt to those with beliefs and faiths different from ours.”

— Laisenia Qarase

( Pacific Magazine http://www.pacificmagazine.net).
Reaction to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, 7 February 2006

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Prime Minister of Fiji 1941

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