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Several hundred people gather for a come-as-you are demonstration for peace and understanding As many as a thousand people gathered in the shadow of the offices of newspaper Jyllands-Posten Sunday afternoon to demonstrate in support of dialogue in the intensifying debate over the newspaper's caricatures of the prophet Mohammed. The demonstration, attended by ethnic Danes as well as Danes of Muslim...

PARIS: When 20 Minutos scaled the heights to claim the prize as Spain's largest general-circulation newspaper, the free sheet gloated over the news with a giant front-page photo of King Kong with bared teeth. "We're No. 1. We're No. 1," said José Antonio Martínez Soler, laughing. He started the paper in his basement six years ago and has watched total readership grow to 2.3 million while rivals...

I think, therefore I am, said the philosopher. Fine. But I think, therefore I speak? No way. Nobody has an absolute right to freedom. Civilisation is the story of humans sacrificing freedom so as to live together in harmony. We do not need Hobbes to tell us that absolute freedom is for newborn savages. All else is compromise. Should a right-wing Danish newspaper have carried the derisive images of...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi condemned on Sunday the torching of Danish and Norwegian embassies in Arab capitals by Muslims angry over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Qaradawi, who is based in Qatar, told Arabic television Al Jazeera that Muslims should instead channel their fury by boycotting goods of countries who published the drawings in their...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will complain to the United Nations about Syria's failure to protect its embassy in Damascus from being torched by demonstrators angry over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said. "We condemn what happened in Damascus strongly, it's totally unacceptable and we are going to raise the question with the United Nations because this is a violation...

The worldwide campaign at street and diplomatic level against European newspaper publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed yesterday assumed ever more serious proportions. In Damascus, thousands of Syrian demonstrators set fire to both the Danish and Norwegian embassies, badly damaging the buildings. In Palestine, dozens of youths attacked the European Union's officer in Gaza, and, in Jordan, the...

Danish ministers say the government can’t condemn the cartoons a daily published mocking the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and that freedom of speech is guaranteed for all and that freedom of the press is also guaranteed by the Danish constitution. This argument would have been accepted if the constitution does not state otherwise and if the Danish government can say the same thing when it...

Damascus, Syria (AHN) - Thousands of Syrians enraged by caricatures of Islam's revered prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus on Saturday - the most violent in days of furious protests by Muslims in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Violent demonstrations are taking place in Jordan as well. In Gaza, Palestinians marched through the streets, storming European buildings and...

Jason Burke in Paris, Luke Harding in Berlin, Alex Duval Smith in Copenhagen and Peter Beaumont in Ramallah If the consequences are global, the source is almost farcically local. You reach number 3 Grondals Street by taking the number 9 bus to the outskirts of the Danish city of Aarhus and getting off by the red post box half way up the hill. The modest single-story yellow brick building is the...

IT WAS always intended to generate a debate about freedom of speech but, buried innocuously in the culture section of a newspaper, no-one guessed it would spark global protests, the burning of effigies and the unlikely cry of "Death to Denmark". The subject matter, admittedly, was contentious, involving a writer's struggle to find an illustrator for his book about the Koran, and in particular the...