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COPENHAGEN (AFX) - The editor of the Danish newspaper that first published the controversial prophet Mohammed cartoons said the media was giving Muslims special treatment as a result of the subsequent uproar. 'It turned out that the freedom of the press crumbled much more quickly than I thought. It seems to me that the freedom of the press the world over is being limited as Muslims are being given...

The student newspaper at Northern Illinois University this week ran the controversial Danish political cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. The student paper at the University of Illinois is still reeling from the consequences of running them. Harvard's conservative alternative paper has run them. On Wednesday, so did the alternative student paper at Illinois State University. By this point...

The weekly Le Journal Hebdomadaire has accused Moroccan authorities of orchestrating protests against it for publishing a photograph of a French newspaper showing a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed. The Casablanca-based newspaper said in a statement that for two days this week protesters have demonstrated against it and that two state-run television stations have accused it of blasphemy. Le Journal...

With riots raging across the Muslim world over the publication of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the editors of The Harvard Salient republished four of the cartoons in the paper’s Feb. 8 edition, angering a number of student groups. Asserting that they would not "[cater] to a sensitivity borne of fear of death that has plagued many would-be critics of Islam," the editors of the...

Over the last three months an Iranian news agency has provided an open platform to Western Holocaust deniers, in effect aiding the Iranian government's efforts to promote anti-Semitism and to cast doubt on the historical truth of the Holocaust. The semi-official Mehr News Agency, whose articles are made available on the Internet in Farsi, Arabic and English and widely circulated throughout the...

What are the long-term consequences of the Prophet Mohammed cartoon furor? I predict it is helping bring on not a clash of civilizations, but their mutual pulling apart. This separation, which has been building for years, has dreadful implications. Signs of disengagement are all around. Trade: Boycotts now exist in both directions. Even as the U.S. government sanctions Iranian products, Iranian...

TEHERAN - The chief editor of the Iranian daily Hamshahri on Tuesday called on Danish newspapers to join its self-initiated international cartoon competition on the Holocaust. "The Danish daily which insulted our prophet, as well as other Danish dailies, can attend our cartoon competition," Mohammed-Reza Zarei told reporters in Teheran. Zarei, a cleric, said his newspaper would also be willing to...

BRUSSELS, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The United States and Europe should respond to the row over cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammad by intensifying efforts to nurture Middle East reform, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday. Accusing authorities in Iran and Syria of stoking popular anger at the pictures, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Dan Fried said the dispute showed...

The editorial staff of the independent daily newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said Monday that its members were embarrassed by how the decision was made to run controversial Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad last week. "We want to make it clear that while we do not necessarily disagree with the decision to print these cartoons, we disagree with how they were run,"...

Two high-ranking editors of the student newspaper at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were suspended Tuesday after they decided on their own to run some of the controversial cartoons that have sparked protests and outrage from Muslims around the world. Acton Gorton, the editor in chief of the Daily Illini, and Chuck Prochaska, the opinions editor, said they stand behind their decision...