2005-2014

IRVINE, California (CNN) -- A controversy that has sparked violent demonstrations across the Middle East and Asia came to a U.S. college campus as a display of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed drew about 200 protesters. Security was increased for the student forum Tuesday night at the University of California, Irvine, but police reported no violence. Last week, members of the Muslim Student Union...

PARIS, March 1, 2006 (UPI) -- A group of a dozen prolific writers have written a statement condemning the violent reaction to the publishing of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Most of the writers have been threatened for writing perceived anti-Muslim works, the BBC reports. The writers' statement said the upheaval shows the need to address freedom, secular values and religious fanaticism. It was...

Rik Torfs, a leading law professor in Europe, said Muslims will not win any case they may open against the publishing of insulting cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. Though European leaders, especially Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen, have indicated Muslims may initiate legal proceedings on all occasions, Professor Torfs said, "Muslim groups cannot obtain any success in the field of law."...

PARIS - Political cartoonists in the United States, the Middle East and elsewhere fear their profession risks becoming a victim of the worldwide furor provoked by Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. More than angry Muslims, some artists see a threat in their own paymasters - who they suspect may start trying to tame controversial art. "These are not good times for political cartoonists...

President Bush has said that making America more secure and defeating terrorists requires more democratic reforms in the Middle East. Among the ways, he said during his State of the Union speech, were by "offering the hopeful alternative of political freedom and peaceful change." His Greater Middle East Initiative, launched two years ago, was supposed to do just that by transforming the region...

A prominent correspondent for Russia's NTV television channel, Ilya Zimin, was killed Sunday in Moscow, the channel's press secretary said, according to RIA Novosti news agency. "We confirm that he tragically died," Maria Bezborodova said. She said no details of Zimin's death were immediately available. KILLED FOR EXPOSES: NTV News Editor Tatyana Mitkova said she did not rule out the possibility

Cartoons depicting Jesus in a Radford University online student magazine have created controversy just weeks after Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad touched off violent protests throughout the Muslim world. In his "Christ on Campus" comic strip, sophomore Christian Keesee has satirized what he sees as the hypocrisy of some churchgoing students, the greed of some televangelists and the...

September 17, 2005: Politiken, a Danish newspaper, runs an article under the headline "Deep fear of criticism of Islam" detailing the difficulty encountered by the writer K�re Bluitgen, who had difficulties finding an illustrator for his children's book on the life of Mohammed. September 30: Jyllands-Posten, one of Denmark's bestselling daily newspapers, publishes 12 cartoons of the prophet to

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A soft-spoken man who bears the weight of global problems traveled from New York to Doha, Qatar, this past weekend to plea for calm dialogue among civilizations in face of deadly riots in reaction to cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan saw in a high-level meeting Sunday of the Alliance of Civilizations a venue for that...

Today, an online newspaper with links to Michigan State University’s journalism program became the first news outlet in the state to publish controversial Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The online publication drew immediate complaints from local Muslims and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Dawud Walid, Michigan director for the group. Calling the cartoons offensive...