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DUBAI, February 21, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The sales of Mecca Cola, an Arab type of cola, have been reportedly surging since the furor sparked by the publication of cartoons lampooning Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) by several European newspapers. "Growth came with these Danish caricatures. It's crazy but our sales multiplied by three," Taoufik Mathlouthi, the...

MOSCOW, Feb. 20 – The owner of a small Russian weekly that printed a composite of the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad said Monday that he would close the newspaper. His was the second newspaper to close in Russia in the wake of international protests over the cartoons. The newspaper, Our Region, based in Vologda, north of Moscow, which printed its illustration last Wednesday, was...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday he was mistaken when he stated last week that the U.S. military had stopped paying Iraqi newspapers to publish pro-American articles. Rumsfeld had said in a television interview on Friday that the U.S. military had ceased paying to place positive stories in Iraqi media after criticism in the U.S. Congress and press. Rumsfeld...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has suspended a youth daily that carried cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohammad that have sparked violent protests around the world, journalists from the newspaper said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Information indefinitely stopped the daily Shams from publication from Monday after it reprinted late last month several of 12 cartoons first published by a Danish...

(CNSNews.com) - Disturbed by Muslim leaders' attempts to criminalize any criticism of Islam, human rights campaigners are urging the United Nations to resist pressure to outlaw religious defamation in a resolution creating the U.N.'s new human rights council. The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a Saudi-based grouping of the world's 57 Muslim states, wants the resolution's draft text...

Crying blood is in. At least pretty much in Uttar Pradesh where two virtually unknown Shariat courts have joined the issue with a minister of the state in calling for the death of the Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of prophet Mohammed. BUSH FIRE: Protestors burn an effigy of US President George W Bush in Lucknow February 19. Thousands of protesters participated in the rally. Shia and

COPENHAGEN: Danish opposition parties called on Monday for an independent investigation into the right-leaning coalition government’s handling of a row over Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) cartoons that have sparked violent protests in Muslim countries. "Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has insisted that he has no reason to blame himself and has laid most of the responsibility for the...

Following Denmark, Germany now has its own controversy over anti-Muslim caricatures. On February 10, the Berlin daily paper Tagesspiegel published a drawing that provoked disgust among Iranian football fans, drew an official protest from the Iranian government, and led to violent demonstrations in front of the German embassy in Tehran. The drawing, entitled "Why the German army has to be called up...

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan made a last-minute decision to address a meeting in Qatar this weekend in an effort to calm violence triggered by the publication of cartoons about the Prophet Mohammad, his spokesman said on Monday. Annan intends to speak at a session in Doha, the Qatar capital, of the U.N.-backed Alliance of Civilizations and address issues...

The Danish cartoons row refuses to go away, reverberating with sound and fury at different levels across the Islamic world. That primarily reflects the deep affront felt by many Muslims. But it is clear that the uproar has deeper causes which westerners, struggling to fathom the rage sparked by Jyllands-Posten's crude caricatures, and Muslims, fearing a growing clash of cultures, ignore at their...