2005-2014

The Spectator has pulled a controversial cartoon of the prophet Muhammad from its website. The image was one of a series of cartoons - originally published in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten - that have generated outrage in the Muslim world and a huge row about freedom of speech across Europe. The magazine's acting editor, Stuart Reid, said he had not been responsible for uploading the picture...

PARIS, February 1, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – French Muslim leaders on Wednesday, February 1, denounced in unison the reprinting of a series of explosive cartoons blasphemous to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by a French daily and vowed to take the case to French courts. "We call on French Muslims to peacefully protest this aggression on the Prophet of Islam," the French Council for the Muslim Religion...

Free speech means the right to be offensive about religious beliefs, MEPs insist amid a growing Muslim censorship row. Furious international and pan-European controversy has broken out over the publication of cartoons depicting Muslim prophet Muhammed in a Danish newspaper. Some Islamic countries have demanded bans on the publication of the cartoons, arguing that the caricatures are offensive and...

The diplomatic crisis between Denmark and the Muslim world may have been relatively slow to gather pace but now that it has, it is having a real impact. It began with a series of cartoons in a Danish newspaper - including one of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb. But today few people are laughing. The global outrage has led to the recall of ambassadors; Danish citizens...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, February 1, 2006 - French authorities have jailed an Ivoirian army officer in connection with the 2004 disappearance in Ivory Coast of journalist Guy-André Kieffer, according to Kieffer's wife and Agence France-Presse. Osange Silou-Kieffer told CPJ today that Capt. Jean-Tony Oulaï was arrested on January 11 in Paris and is being questioned by a French judge investigating...

A couple of simple caricatures printed in a Danish newspaper has the Arab world outraged. Unfortunately, the paper apologized for the Muhammad-critical cartoons and democratic values lost out to totalitarian ideology. In Germany and the rest of free Europe, one likes to talk about the necessity of learning from the past, of helping newcomers to the democratic club and of supporting stable...

Building a mosque in Copenhagen would help to relieve tensions between Denmark and the Muslim world, says Herbert Pundik, a former editor of daily newspaper Politiken. The country's 200,000 Muslims currently are relegated to some 50 makeshift mosques throughout the country. Pundik suggested that construction of a permanent mosque could serve as an olive branch to Muslims angered by drawings of the...

Twelve drawings of Muhammad printed in a major Danish newspaper have turned millions of Muslims against Denmark. And one man's mission has transformed the caricatures into the stuff of international diplomacy. The Arab world, though, isn't being given the full story. It was just twelve simple drawing published in a Danish newspaper. But they have triggered an international relations crisis for...

The Association of Online Publishers (AOP), UK, has cautiously welcomed the campaign led by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) to encourage publishers to seek compensation from search engines which it argues exploit their editorial content for commercial gain. "There's absolutely no doubt that quality content delivered by established brands is more valuable to consumers than the vast...

The newspaper, magazine and book publishing industries have come together to explore ways to challenge the exploitation of content by search engines without fair compensation to copyright owners. A task force of global and European publishers organisations, led by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), has agreed to work together to examine the options open to publishers to assert their rights...