Mary Cory, publisher of the Illini Media Company, and Adam Jung, vice president of the Illini Media Company board of directors and graduate student, addressed The Daily Illini staff present in the newsroom Tuesday evening around 7 p.m. concerning the employment of Acton Gorton, editor in chief. Jung announced to the staff that the board has decided to terminate Gorton immediately. "After...
Peshawar - In his office in Peshawar's historic Mohabat Khan mosque, prayer leader Maulana Yousaf Qureshi smoothes his beard from the white roots to the henna-orange tips. "There's no time limit. If someone kills the cartoonist in 50 years he will still get the million dollars," he says. In a blazing sermon on February 17, Qureshi promised the money - and a new car - to whoever assassinates any of...
Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller today received a petition with 60,000 signatures calling for reconciliation between Denmark and the Muslim world following the crisis over the Prophet Mohammed cartoons. Organisers of the campaign "Forsoning Nu," or "Reconciliation Now," urged all parties, particularly the governments of Denmark and other countries involved in the dispute, "to work together to...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Muslim preachers and scholars on Friday called for reconciliation between the West and the Islamic world following the prophet cartoon uproar but told a conference on religious dialogue the Danish government had mishandled the crisis. "We feel there are forces of extremism which are aiming to light fires and transform Denmark from a peaceful country to a country which will...
The student newspaper at the University of Saskatchewan has accepted the resignation of its editor after the paper published a cartoon showing Jesus Christ involved in a sex act with a pig. The Sheaf newspaper came under fire around the Saskatoon campus and on radio call-in shows after publishing its most recent edition. The issue contained a Capitalist Piglet cartoon that many people said was...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A magazine published by the science and reason-driven Center for Inquiry will publish some of the cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad that have provoked deadly protests among Muslims worldwide. Free Inquiry's April-May issue, to be released March 15, will include four of the drawings which originally appeared in a Danish newspaper in September, the magazine's editors said...
MAPUTO, 7 March (IRIN) - A controversy over how to respond to the publishing by a local newspaper of the controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, has highlighted differences within Mozambique's Muslim community. The independent weekly Savana last month reprinted 8 of the 12 cartoons that first appeared in the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten last year. Most Muslims in Mozambique were...
LONDON As protests against the Danish cartoons fade, Europe's moderate Muslims are facing difficult choices about their faith, identity, and values. "The middle ground in Muslim communities is between a rock and a hard place," says Omar Shah, an Afghan-Danish commentator on Muslim affairs. "The moderate majority is having to decide where they stand." During a month of flag-burning protests in...
In the modern world, the twin liberal values of press freedom and religious tolerance can easily conflict with each other. In January, this tension between censorship and expression came to a head in Europe and the Middle East. The publication of cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper set off a wave of protests, some turning violent. The newspapers and their supporters...
CAIRO, March 5, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) In response to an invitation from the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute, two delegates from IslamOnline.net will be traveling, along with a small group of Egyptian journalists and academics, to Denmark on Sunday, March 12, for meetings with Danish media representatives and Danish Muslims. "The goal of the visit is to give journalists from IOL, [Egyptian...
