International

Late in 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten (JP) published 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, some of which were very negative. In the months that followed, several delegations of Danish Muslim leaders sought to meet with JP editorial staff but were ignored. Several Muslim ambassadors to Denmark sought to meet with the prime minister of Denmark so they could work out a joint...

Denmark’s main opposition party and a government ally today called for an investigation of a national Muslim group’s Middle East trip, which has been blamed for fanning the furore over a newspaper’s publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Anger over the cartoons had simmered within Denmark after the Jyllands-Posten daily published them on September 30, but then exploded internationally...

The European Union has backed Denmark in the row over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, but leaders of its legislature differed over the limits of free speech. The cartoons, first published in Denmark, caused outrage in the Muslim world, and Danish and other European diplomatic missions have been attacked in Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia. Political leaders from all groups rallied...

New York-area Jews reacted with disgust and resignation to an Iranian newspaper's solicitation of cartoons mocking the Holocaust in response to demeaning caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper. "Once again, we've been turned into conspirators," said Abraham Foxman, executive director of the New York-based Anti-Defamation League. "We thought initially that this is a...

Berlin - A political cartoonist from a leading German daily has received death threats, the paper said on Tuesday, after publishing a caricature showing the Iranian national soccer team wearing belts of explosives next to four German soldiers. Caricaturist Klaus Stutt-mann said the idea of the cartoon, published in the Friday edition of the Tagesspiegel daily, was to challenge calls from some...

PARIS, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Denmark's far-right anti-immigrant party has drawn new support from voters angry about the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, but other extreme right-wing parties in Europe failed to capitalise on the dispute. The backlash against protests by Muslims offended by European newspapers printing caricatures of the Prophet has prompted suggestions that Europeans will...

DOHA, February, 15 2006, (IslamOnline.net) – The Norwegian parliament has amended the Penal Code to criminalize blasphemy in the wake of the republication of Danish cartoons that lampooned Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) by a Norwegian magazine, Christian and Muslim leaders in Norway said on Tuesday, February 14. "Law 150-A, which has been approved by parliament, criminalizes...

RIYADH, Feb 15 (KUNA) -- Permanent representatives of member states of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) said on Wednesday they reserve the right to call for an urgent OIC foreign ministers meeting if Denmark kept on its "negative" position regarding publishing anti-Islam cartoons in the Danish press. The member states' representatives to the Riyadh-based organization said in a...

ROME, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- An Italian government minister said Wednesday he will wear T-shirts featuring the Prophet Mohammed cartoons that have sparked global incidences of violence. Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli rejected accusations the T-shirts were meant to provoke Muslims, but added there was no reason to attempt a dialogue with religious extremists. "I have had T-shirts made with the...

Muslim students are upset by the Badger Herald newspaper's decision to reprint one of the notorious cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad. Muslim students at UW-Madison have met with campus officials, are planning a campus forum on Tuesday, and are considering whether to stage protests. The cartoons, originally published in a right-wing Danish newspaper in September, have sparked worldwide...