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COPENHAGEN: As a Danish citizen of Pakistani descent, a onetime television anchor and now a prominent author married to a Dane, Rushy Rashid has led what could be depicted as a high-profile life. But, she said, nothing has forced her to define her attitude to fellow Muslims quite so much as Denmark's bitter fight with much of the Islamic world over a newspaper's decision to print unflattering...

PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen lashed out at extremist Muslim leaders in Denmark on Thursday for speaking with two tongues in the on-going row between the country and the Muslim world. Rasmussen said imams' positive comments in Danish about the recent days' thaw in the dispute over newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of 12 caricatures of the prophet Mohammed had been undermined by statements made in...

Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen initiated a media offensive in Arab media yesterday. The prime minister sought to present Denmark's point of view in the on-going dispute between Muslim countries and Denmark over daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of 12 Mohammed caricatures. 'The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and I have initiated what I would call a media offensive aimed at Arab...

These cartoons are much less offensive than what is routinely printed in every American newspaper about presidents, presidential candidates, and other pols. Yet strange as it may seem to Western non-Muslims, the rage over them seems to grow with each passing day – until the global scale of the response to it has now involved ambassadors from many countries, the United Nations, international...

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian gunmen Thursday shut down the European Union's office in Gaza City, demanding an apology for German, French and Norwegian newspapers reprinting cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammad, Palestinian security sources said. The gunmen left a notice on the EU office's door that the building would remain closed until Europeans apologize to Muslims, many of whom consider...

Rabat, Feb. 2 - The Moroccan government condemned, here Thursday, the publication by some European newspapers of offensive cartoons against prophet Muhammad (PBUH) under the fallacious pretext of defending the freedom of speech. "The caricatures harm the Prophet and are a provocation act that offend Muslims' feelings," said Moroccan government spokesman, Nabil Benabdallah. Speaking at a press...

A French newspaper has reproduced a set of Danish caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad that have caused outrage in the Muslim world. France Soir said it had published the cartoons to show that "religious dogma" had no place in a secular society. Their publication in Denmark led to protests in several Arab nations. Responding to France Soir's move, the French government said it supported...

The US Congress has condemned major IT firms for helping China censor the internet. In China, web forums are carrying angry comments. Members of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus said that Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Yahoo were putting profits before the principle of free speech. "With all their power and influence, wealth and high visibility, they neglected to commit to the kind of positive...

JAKARTA - Indonesian Muslims on Thursday conveyed their anger over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper to a visiting Red Cross official from the country, reports said. Dozens of people picketed the governor's office in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar during a visit by Danish Red Cross secretary-general Jorgen Paulsen. "Please tell your country...

Amman (dpa) - The owners of Jordan's Shihan Weekly on Thursday fired the paper's editor for republishing three of the 12 Danish cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Mohammed which have triggered outrage in the Arab world and a campaign to boycott Danish products. "The Arab Printers Company which owns Shihan Weekly has decided to fire its editor Jihad Momani as of Thursday after republishing the...