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NEW YORK: A relatively small daily newspaper in Victorville, Calif., is one of the few in the U.S. to run one of the Muhammad cartoons sparking riots and killings abroad. Don Holland, the editor of the Freedom Communications Inc. paper, the Daily Press, explains in a column today, "I'm sure most Americans are curious about this controversial cartoon, which depicts the Muslim prophet Mohammed with...

(Rocklin, Calif.) www.PeaceCartoon.com is promoting an alternative to the rage and violence brought about by the recent publication of a cartoon drawing of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Cash and prizes are being offered to artists that submit cartoons that highlight peace and tolerance. The goal of the site is to provide an outlet to those would like to see a peaceful end to this controversy. "The...

ANKARA, Feb. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan said on Wednesday that Turkey continued to take the initiative in preventing escalation of the cartoon crisis. Speaking at a weekly news conference, Tan said that the reaction of some Muslim countries to the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad was tough. "Public opinion in Muslim countries considered the printing of the...

The protests against the caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad are not disappearing. But the voices of sanity are getting louder. As the fury over the caricatures in the Muslim world intensifies, the deeper fear in Europe is that this conflict is here to stay. Indeed, the daily images from the Middle East show no signs of abating on Wednesday, and Europeans have begun making moves to adjust...

LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union may try to draw up a media code of conduct to avoid a repeat of the furor caused by the publication across Europe of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, an EU commissioner said on Thursday. In an interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph, EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said the charter would encourage the media to show "prudence" when...

SINGAPORE, Feb. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Several Islamic organizations in Singapore have expressed their opposition to any form of violence by Muslims in the recent cartoon conflict, according to Channel News Asia report on Wednesday night. They were quoted as saying that being overly sensitive and responding irrationally would only intensify the negative image others hold toward Islam. They called for...

Feb. 8, 2006 – World leaders were caught off guard by Muslim outrage over 12 cartoons that negatively depicted the Prophet Mohammed in the European press. A torrent of anger and protest has rocked Muslim countries from Indonesia to tiny Lebanon, at times turning violent. World leaders were also surprised by the spectacular victory of Hamas (official name: the Islamic Resistance Movement) in...

BERLIN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - An Iranian newspaper's call for Holocaust cartoons is an attempt to drag Israel into a conflict between Europe and the Muslim world over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, German government minister said. "After denying the right of Israel to exist and denying the Holocaust, the people around President (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad are trying to escalate the situation," said...

A student newspaper editor who published a controversial cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed is today said to be 'devastated'. Tom Wellingham, editor of Gair Rhydd, Cardiff's University Students' Union paper, was suspended after publishing the caricature, which sparked protests across the world when it was previously published by a Danish newspaper. The Gair Rhydd copies were hastily pulled off...

In April 2003 Danish illustrator Christoffer Zieler submitted a series of unsolicited cartoons offering a lighthearted take on the resurrection of Christ to the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Zieler received an e-mail from the paper's Sunday editor, Jens Kaiser, saying: "I don't think Jyllands-Posten's readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think they will provoke an outcry...