THE controversy over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was reignited yesterday after an Italian Catholic magazine printed one on its front cover. Studi Cattolici carried a drawing of the Prophet in Hell, with the Italian writer Dante Alighieri asking the poet Virgil: "That man divided in two from his head to his feet - isn't that Muhammad?" Virgil replies: "Yes, it is him and he is in two because...
ROME - The editor of an Italian monthly has apologized for any offense to Muslims over a humorous caption for a drawing showing the Prophet Muhammad in hell, Italian news reports said Sunday. Italian news agencies on Sunday quoted the journals editor, Cesare Cavalleri, as "apologizing, as a Christian," for any offense. Milan daily Corriere della Sera said that the journal had run a humorous...
A Russian court today convicted and fined the editor of a newspaper who was charged with inciting religious strife by publishing the Prophet Muhammad cartoons two months ago. The Vologda city court found weekly Nash Region editor Anna Smirnova guilty of deliberately stirring up religious hatred and intolerance, as well as abuse of her position. She was ordered to pay 100,000 rubles (2,978) in...
On 30 September 2005 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a number of caricatures on the subject of Islam, Muslims and the Prophet Mohammed. It had solicited these as part of a competition in which cartoonists had been asked to address the supposed fear that Danes and other Europeans felt in depicting Islam critically. In response to the publication Muslims in Denmark protested against...
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish police warned on Tuesday Muslim anger over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad had raised the threat of terrorist attacks on Denmark, after new figures revealed some of the economic damage. Denmark was already on alert because of its participation in the U.S.-led war in Iraq, where it has about 500 troops, though it has not yet suffered any attacks on Danish...
Tallin, April 10, Interfax - The Estonian newspaper KesKus has reprinted the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that caused protracted protests in the Muslim community in a number of countries. "We published the cartoons so that people can see what they are criticizing. My decision was immediate but we took our time because we did not want to add to the already high tensions," says an article by...
THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has released the criteria for the WFP Award for humanitarian journalism. The award aims at recognising journalists’ efforts to deliver consistent, in-depth coverage of humanitarian issues relating to people and communities affected by poverty, food insecurity and HIV and AIDS in Swaziland. WFP Country Director Abdoulaye Balde cited HIV and AIDS as the...
Type the words citizen journalism into Google, and you'll get roughly 17 million results. And each will have a different definition for the term. The discussion of the topic generally centres around blogs. Now, blogs are sort of online diary, right? Sometimes that means you're talking about just how cute your toy poodle is -- day after day after day. Entry 3368: "Toy poodle still cute! Click for...
Saudi Arabia’s youth newspaper Shams has started publishing again, three weeks after being suspend by authorities for printing the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The paper’s editor-in-chief, Battal Koss, was fired as a result of the row and has been replaced by Khalaf Harby. The paper landed itself in hot water in the Kingdom after reprinting the Danish cartoons next to an article...
Borders Inc. raised book-business eyebrows Friday when the company confirmed it wouldn't stock a tiny magazine's current edition featuring the satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have enraged parts of the Muslim world. But readers in Portland eager to sift through the April-May issue of Free Inquiry shouldn't have much trouble finding other outlets for the magazine -- unless they sell...
