MUSLIM anger at the publication in Denmark of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad showed some signs of abating yesterday, but a French weekly risked stoking the row further by republishing the caricatures alongside a new one. As Muslim demonstrators attacked western institutions across the world, Jacques Chirac, the French president, condemned the "overt provocations" by the magazine. French...
PARIS -- Extra! Extra! Read all about it! That street corner cry of yesteryear is resonating at some European publications that have enjoyed a boom in sales and Web traffic after printing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have stoked outrage across the Islamic world. Denmark's biggest-circulation broadsheet, Jyllands-Posten, triggered the controversy in September by publishing 12 cartoons...
CAIRO - Egyptian writer and Nobel literature prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz has said a boycott of Danish products over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed was "the only option" for Muslims to retaliate. "A boycott may not be the best means of addressing what happened but under the circumstances it's the only option we have. The world only understands the language of force," he told the English...
WASHINGTON -- As the rage of anti-Western demonstrations in several Islamic countries shows, picture depictions of the prophet Muhammad are a sensitive issue in modern Islam. But Islamic scholars note that there were some Islamic countries where depicting Muhammad was once accepted by local customs, and book illustrations of Muhammad in Islamic texts survive today that were drawn in Persian and...
Copenhagen - A Danish newspaper at the centre of the ongoing row over controversial Mohammed cartoons refuted reports that it planned to publish anti-Semitic or anti-Christian caricatures, the chief editor said Thursday. Jyllands-Posten's editor Carsten Juste's statement was published on the newspaper's web site after a Danish television channel reported that publication was pending this Sunday...
A member of Rockhampton's Muslim community has expressed disappointment that a cartoon that it believes is offensive was published in a local newspaper. The Morning Bulletin has published one of the cartoons that has sparked a violent reaction overseas. Dr Saleh Wasimi says he told the newspaper that the small central Queensland Muslim community would be offended by the publication, but it went...
The Taliban will give 100kg of gold as a reward to anyone who kills the person responsible for the contentious Danish cartoons, Afghan Islamic Press reports. "Any one who will kill the person responsible for blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in Denmark would be rewarded 100 kilogram of gold by the Taliban," Mullah Dadullah, chief military commander of the Taliban, said. Dadullah also said...
A mass demonstration of 100,000 Muslims will take place in London next weekend as anger continues over publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The Muslim Action Committee, an umbrella group which claims to represent more than a million Muslims, said it would do as much as it could to prevent the ugly scenes seen last week when protesters carried placards issuing death threats and one man...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 8 – As leaders of the world's 57 Muslim nations gathered for a summit meeting in Mecca in December, issues like religious extremism dominated the official agenda. But much of the talk in the hallways was of a wholly different issue: Danish cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad. The closing communiqué took note of the issue when it expressed "concern at rising hatred...
KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 -- Like tens of thousands of protesters this week, the crowd that gathered Wednesday in the southern Afghan town of Qalat came to speak out against cartoons in European newspapers mocking the prophet Muhammad. But the protest soon took a much different direction. Afghan demonstrators began chanting against the hiring of Pakistanis to do reconstruction work. Pakistanis in...
