2005-2014

PARIS -- Fears are growing that the spasm of anti-European protests across the Muslim world could evolve into a more dangerous confrontation unless political and religious leaders take unified action. Extremists have already capitalized on public anger in Muslim countries over the widespread publication, in Europe and elsewhere, of caricatures of Islam's Prophet Mohammed, including one with a...

BRUSSELS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The European Union stepped up pressure on Arab and Muslim countries to control protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, reminding 19 nations of their treaty obligation to protect diplomatic missions. In a strongly worded statement issued late on Monday, EU president Austria said it had instructed its embassies in the Middle East, Asian and African countries to...

Maybe it's because I'm a person now and not a newspaper editor that I'm bothered by the blackout in almost all mainstream U.S. media of the cartoons that have incited much of the Muslim world. Images often provoke controversy more than words do. When I was a newspaper editor, I probably spent the equivalent of six months of my life debating whether to publish one or another controversial...

Tehran – Iran's supreme leader on Tuesday denounced as an Israeli conspiracy the publication of caricatures of Islam's prophet in Western newspapers. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iranian Air Force personnel the cartoons were particularly scandalous as they came "from those who champion civilization and free expression." The cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed have led to demonstrations, boycotts and...

Denmark protested the second attack in the rallies outside the Danish embassy in Iranian capital Tehran. Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller called his Iranian counterpart and protested the incident, which was aroused by the publication of cartoons causing upset in the Islamic world. Moller asked Iran to do everything in its power to protect Danes living in this country and the embassy...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – NATO peacekeepers exchanged gunfire with protesters who attacked their base Tuesday in another day of deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, officials said. Three demonstrators were killed. In neighboring Pakistan, 5,000 people chanting "Hang the man who insulted the prophet!" burned effigies of Denmark's prime...

A student newspaper has recalled 8,000 copies and suspended its editor after publishing a cartoon satirising the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. It is thought Cardiff University's student union paper Gair Rhydd is the first UK publication to use the image which has caused global protests. The paper has been withdrawn and said it regretted any upset caused. Complaints over the cartoons in European...

KABUL Afghanistan; 7 February 2006 -- Norwegian soldiers in Afghanistan were attacked by an angry crowd today as protests against controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad continued across Asia. Norway's Defense Ministry said Norwegian troops with the International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, used tear gas to disperse some 300 stone-throwing protesters outside their base in the city of...

A Scotland Yard special squad is investigating extremists who protested against Muslim cartoons over the last week. The investigation began as it emerged that a man who dressed as a suicide bomber during the protests had served a prison sentence for drug dealing. Omar Khayam, 22, was sentenced to six years in prison in 2002 for possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply, according to newspaper...

LEAVING the politics of it aside, the issue is a fairly straightforward one. It is simply about values. The Danes who published the cartoons ridiculing the Prophet of my faith, degrading and attacking my religion also claim they merely exercised their right of expression, of freedom of speech. Then, there were others in Europe who rose to the defence of the Danish act of insulting Prophet Muhammad...