Editors, not governments, should decide what is published in the media, the Cabinet said on Wednesday. However, it warned that the sensitivities of individuals and communities should also be respected. Government spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe said: "South Africa upholds the principle of freedom of speech. However, we appreciate that our constitution enjoins us, in exercising this right, to...
NEW YORK Muhammed Zahny is upset - and not about the cold wind that is keeping customers away from his store on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue. "If I lose money, I don't care," says Mr. Zahny, who owns "Islamic Fashions." "But if I lose respect, then I have nothing left." Zahny, originally from Egypt, says the recent republication of Danish newspaper cartoons depicting Muhammad, the messenger of...
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 8 -- Mohammad Fouad Barazi, a prominent Muslim cleric here, received a text message on his cell phone last week. It was a mass mailing from an anonymous sender, he said, warning that Danish people were planning to burn the Koran that Saturday in Copenhagen's City Hall Square out of anger over Muslim demonstrations against Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. Hundreds of people...
Thousands of copies of a student newspaper have been pulped and three of its journalists suspended by their students' union after publishing a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Cardiff University paper Gair Rhydd, which means "Free Word" in Welsh, is believed to be the first newspaper in Britain to have published the controversial image, which has sparked protests around the world...
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia has decided to suspend the publishing licence of a daily newspaper after it published the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide, the New Straits Times said on Thursday. The Sarawak Tribune ran the caricatures last weekend to illustrate a story on its inside pages about the global fury in what it called an "oversight" by a non-Muslim night...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the closing of two Yemeni newspapers and a Malaysian paper after they published controversial cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed. At least four governments have now taken punitive action against newspapers or their editors for publishing some of the 12 cartoons that have sparked protests and violence in several cities, CPJ research shows....
The 135-year-old newspaper that enflamed the Muslim world by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad once offended Nikita Khrushchev so much that the Soviet leader canceled a trip to Denmark. After deadly riots in the Muslim world, the paper remains defiant with Editor-in-Chief Carsten Juste rejecting suggestions that he resign. But Juste said his paper would not join an Iranian paper in...
The Danish paper that printed the cartoons of Muhammad wanted to stir up trouble -- and the government wanted a culture war. They got more than they bargained for. Kashmir this week declared a nationwide protest against 12 cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published four months ago in a provincial Danish paper. Iran officially launched a cartoon war against the West, calling for...
Imams' critical statements about Denmark in Muslim media have angered the minister of integration affairs Political criticism of local imams in recent days has led the integration minister to exclude the muslim clerics from discussions of the integration of Muslims into Danish society. Some imams have reportedly offered statements to media in Muslim countries that harmed Danish interests in the on...
HEBRON, West Bank, Feb 8 (Reuters) - International monitors decided on Wednesday to pull out of the West Bank city of Hebron temporarily after Palestinians attacked their headquarters in protest at European cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. "We are leaving Hebron temporarily because of the damage to the four buildings but we will return," said Arnstein Overkil, the Norwegian head of the TIPH...
