ROME, March 3, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) A Vatican-controlled magazine urged Muslims to fight "extremism" and called for the West to firmly defend its principles following the row sparked by the publication of cartoons lampooning Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him). "If one must ask the West to avoid all forms of offence to religious feeling, one must also ask those...
The National Press Club of Canada has launched its 6th International Editorial Cartoon Competition. The theme of the competition is "Cartooning in a dangerous environment". The first prize is 1,500 Canadian Dollars. The forty best cartoons will be displayed in an exhibition at the National Press Club in Ottawa and the competition results will be posted on the Press Club website. The deadline for...
Danish industry is speaking out against the country’s prime minister as they believe his fight for press freedom is going too far, according to Danish daily Berlingske Tidende. Niels Due Jensen, the director of the major Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos, indicated in that his company, with nearly 5,000 workers in Denmark, might leave the country because of the aftermath of the Mohammed Cartoons...
KUALA LUMPUR , Mar 2 (IPS) - The Prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy is trailing blood in Malaysian newsrooms at a time when mainstream media showed signs of emerging into the sunshine, after two decades of serving as the mouthpiece of the dictatorial former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. At least three newspapers were punished for their reports on the controversy and several television...
IRVINE, California (CNN) -- A controversy that has sparked violent demonstrations across the Middle East and Asia came to a U.S. college campus as a display of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed drew about 200 protesters. Security was increased for the student forum Tuesday night at the University of California, Irvine, but police reported no violence. Last week, members of the Muslim Student Union...
PARIS, March 1, 2006 (UPI) -- A group of a dozen prolific writers have written a statement condemning the violent reaction to the publishing of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Most of the writers have been threatened for writing perceived anti-Muslim works, the BBC reports. The writers' statement said the upheaval shows the need to address freedom, secular values and religious fanaticism. It was...
Rik Torfs, a leading law professor in Europe, said Muslims will not win any case they may open against the publishing of insulting cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. Though European leaders, especially Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen, have indicated Muslims may initiate legal proceedings on all occasions, Professor Torfs said, "Muslim groups cannot obtain any success in the field of law."...
PARIS - Political cartoonists in the United States, the Middle East and elsewhere fear their profession risks becoming a victim of the worldwide furor provoked by Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. More than angry Muslims, some artists see a threat in their own paymasters - who they suspect may start trying to tame controversial art. "These are not good times for political cartoonists...
President Bush has said that making America more secure and defeating terrorists requires more democratic reforms in the Middle East. Among the ways, he said during his State of the Union speech, were by "offering the hopeful alternative of political freedom and peaceful change." His Greater Middle East Initiative, launched two years ago, was supposed to do just that by transforming the region...
Cartoons depicting Jesus in a Radford University online student magazine have created controversy just weeks after Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad touched off violent protests throughout the Muslim world. In his "Christ on Campus" comic strip, sophomore Christian Keesee has satirized what he sees as the hypocrisy of some churchgoing students, the greed of some televangelists and the...
