The Western media have the right to show images that can potentially cause uproar, political turmoil or insult religious groups, argues Roger Koeppel, editor-in-chief of the center-right German paper Die Welt. Koeppel's remarks were made during a debate entitled "Is free expression sacred?" to commemorate UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day 2006, which honors "the media as a force for change" and for...
The student newspaper at the College of DuPage on Friday published the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that caused widespread protests, many of them violent, across the Islamic world earlier this year. But copies of the Courier newspaper were hard to find on the Glen Ellyn campus Friday, a college spokesman said, because most of the free papers had been removed from distribution bins. The...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani student who was arrested for allegedly trying to hurt a German newspaper editor for publishing Prophet Muhammad cartoons has died in custody in Berlin, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday. Tasnim Aslam identified the student as Amer Cheema, but would not say exactly when he had been arrested. She said an initial report from Berlin suggested that Cheema...
The publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad caused outrage and violence across the Muslim world several months ago. Now a militant Muslim group with a presence in Germany and other European nations has published a list of newspapers that reprinted the cartoons, urging Muslims to take action against Western journalists. The article in the latest issue of an online journal published...
Copenhagen (Denmark), May 03: A Danish newspaper has said it had filed a defamation lawsuit against a lawyer representing a group of Muslim organisations that sued the daily for publishing Prophet Muhammad cartoons, which sparked riots across the world. The Jyllands-Posten sued Michael Christiani Havemann for saying its top editors ordered a cartoonists to deliberately make a "gross" drawing of...
Janne Virkkunen, the editor of Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's biggest broadsheet, said in a media seminar on Tuesday that the decision by Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (centre) to apologise for the posting of Jyllands-Posten's Mohammed cartoons by a Finnish right-wing website as ill-advised. "The prime minister's action was simply imprudent," Mr Virkkunent said, receiving the approval of other...
27 April 2006 - A Yemeni court decided yesterday to postpone the trial session of Akram Sabra and Yehia Al-Abed, editors of Al-Hurriya Newspaper who are being charged for publishing cartoons offensive to the Prophet Mohammed, to a session on 17 May, while freezing the license to print the three newspapers that printed the cartoons. The Yemeni Ministry of Information had filed a complaint against...
(CRN/IFEX) - According to a 24 April 2006 Reuters UK release, comments recently attributed to the al Qaeda leader raised the general level of threat against the 12 Danish cartoonists who had produced the controversial cartoons for the "Jyllands-Posten" newspaper. Speaking in the context of the cartoons, bin Laden was quoted as saying, "Heretics and atheists, who denigrate religion and transgress...
As dozens gathered Tuesday night in a University of Chicago lecture hall to discuss the visceral and sometimes violent reaction to cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, Muslim students who had been invited decided to watch a movie across campus instead. The three-man panel discussion, organized by the university's chapter of the Objectivist Club, mainly focused on the U.S. media's reluctance...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has called for people who ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad to be killed, weighing into the furore that erupted after a Danish newspaper ran cartoons lampooning Islam's holy messenger. "Heretics and atheists, who denigrate religion and transgress against God and His Prophet, will not stop their enmity towards Islam except by being killed," the Saudi...
