European political correctness allows Muslims to resist integration, argues the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten. Instead, Muslims should be treated just like all Europeans -- including being subject to satire. He argues that publishing the caricatures was an act of "inclusion, not exclusion." The worldwide furor unleashed by the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed that I published last September in...
Danish Muslims are increasingly giving their new-born babies Islamic names to help preserve their identity, with that of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) being the most favored choice. "My wife and I have agreed to give our boys and girls Islamic names in the hope they would reflect positively on their personalities," Omran Tharwat told IslamOnline.net on Wednesday, May 10. He...
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) criticized on Tuesday, May 16, Denmark for allowing a climate of suspicion and hatred towards Muslims and blasted as provocative cartoons lampooning Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him). "ECRI notes with deep concern that the situation concerning Muslims in Denmark has worsened since its second report," the independent...
NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - Controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have been reprinted in a U.S. magazine with commentary by leading U.S. cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who offers what he calls a "fatwa bomb meter" to rate their offensiveness. Harper's Magazine published the article by Spiegelman in its June edition available on newsstands from Tuesday, joining only a handful of U.S...
The British Council is launching a media guide to the Muslim community next week, to be used as a reference source and training tool for young journalists. Put together by writer Ehsan Masood, British Muslims: Media Guide is being will be published by Counterpoint, the British Council's think-tank on cultural relations. It will aim to address issues such as: how British Muslims feel they are...
A man believed to be a top al Qaeda militant who escaped from a US airbase in Afghanistan urged Muslims in an internet video to launch attacks in Europe as revenge for cartoons that lampooned the Prophet Mohammad. A website often used by militants posted a video from a man identified as Abu Yahya al-Libi in which he called for Muslims to "send rivers of blood" down the streets of Denmark, Norway...
THE outcry over the Islamic cartoons published by Denmark's leading newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, had escalated into the biggest Danish foreign policy crisis since World War II, Hans-Henrik Holm, the professor of international relations at the Danish School of Journalism and Aarhus University, said yesterday. Professor Holm said the crisis was completely unforeseen by the editors of the newspaper...
Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader, who led criticism of a Danish newspaper that published drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, has decided to leave the country, the daily reported Thursday. Imam Ahmed Abu Laban said he has felt humiliated in the aftermath of the cartoon controversy, which led to riots around the world, and that he would leave Denmark to return to Gaza with his family, the...
ILLINOIS – More than 2,500 copies of an Illinois college student newspaper containing the cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad were stolen on Friday. Kristina Zaremba, editor in chief of the Courier, the student newspaper at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., said the papers went missing shortly after they were distributed Friday morning. Zaremba said the cartoons were published along...
NEW YORK - Harper's, New York magazine and the New Yorker each won two National Magazine Awards Tuesday, the highest accolade in the magazine industry. Time and Rolling Stone were also two-time winners. But perhaps the biggest coup was scored by the Virginia Quarterly Review, a small-circulation literary journal that also won two awards but was nominated for six, even more than the other top...
