A possible mediator role Turkey was expected to play to resolve the cartoon controversy is now at risk over a news report published by some Danish newspaper on Namik Tan, the Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman, which was later proven by Mr. Tan himself to be false. The Danish daily, Information, quoted Mr. Tan as saying that the Turkish government demands an officially-acknowledged apology from...
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday granted bail to Vijay Dixit, publisher of Senior Media Limited, who was arrested for publishing cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed in a periodical brought out by the company. Metropolitan Magistrate Chandra Shekhar granted bail to Dixit, whose group brings out the fortnightly magazine 'Senior India', on his furnishing a bail bond of Rs 50,000 with one surety...
European countries are paying the price for their "miscalculations" on Islam, which have come back to haunt them in the crisis over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, according to the most influential leader of France's Muslim community, the biggest on the continent. Dalil Boubakeur says Europe's mistakes include supporting extremist Islamic groups in Iran and Afghanistan during the cold war...
KEPALA BATAS: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has accepted the New Straits Times’ (NST) front-page apology over a cartoon it published last Monday. Abdullah said no action would be taken against the newspaper following its open apology yesterday. "The NST has conceded to the Government's decision and I take it that they are very regretful over the issue," he said after opening a...
RADFORD, Va. -- Online cartoons depicting Jesus that satirize televangelists, the commercialization of Christmas and other issues have caused a stir among both Christian and non-Christian students and administrators at Radford University. In his "Christ on Campus" comic strip on the Whim Internet Magazine, Christian Keesee has featured Jesus being stabbed by Santa Claus, playing poker with other...
That began as an act of not-so-innocent bravado in Denmark last September has ceased to be a laughing matter – what with sundry ministers in Uttar Pradesh negotiating terms for contract killers. Yet, amid all the outrage, indignation and hysteria, people haven’t entirely lost their sense of humour. There are at least two interventions in the fiery debate over blasphemy worthy of a chuckle. Both...
The board of Finnish culture magazine Kaltio decided Friday to sack its chief editor, Jussi Vilkuna, after he refused to remove a cartoon featuring the Prophet Muhammad from the magazine's website. The cartoon appeared in the Finnish culture magazine Kaltio's website last Friday. On Thursday, Finnish insurance firms Tapiola, Sampo and Pohjola withdrew their advertisements from the Kaltio website...
Two student newspapers at Clemson University have reprinted the controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, upsetting Muslim students on campus and drawing a rebuke from the school’s president. The papers, the conservative Tiger Town Observer and the liberal Clemson Forum, are not funded by the school, but the Observer has an on-campus office. In an open letter e-mailed to Clemson...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A prominent Malaysian newspaper avoided punishment for publishing a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad drawings controversy, offering an apology accepted by the government Friday. The New Straits Times angered many Muslims groups in Malaysia by running the Non Sequitur strip on Monday, even though the cartoon did not show the prophet. Muslim groups said it mocked Islam...
(AXcess News) Washington - Some editorial cartoonists and other journalists Friday applauded U.S. newspapers that reprinted the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. "Our newspapers ought to have shown the cartoons to say this is what has caused so much trouble," said Signe Wilkinson, a Pulitzer Prize wining cartoonist for the Philadelphia Daily News. Wilkinson said U.S. newspapers...
