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MUSLIM protesters who threatened violence in demonstrations against cartoons of the prophet Mohammed should be treated with a "no tolerance" approach, the Conservatives have said. Shadow home secretary David Davis said some of the placards seen in protests in London amounted to "incitement to murder" and should be dealt with firmly by the police. Banners waved during two days of street protests in...

A cartoon in Italy's leading daily, Corriere della Sera, yesterday summed up the mood of nervousness in Europe's press. It depicted an artist drawing caricatures of Mohammed, looking terrified as his cartoon explodes into an atomic mushroom cloud, with the features of an angry bearded cleric. The French newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, carried a signed editorial, asking blasphemers in the...

Johannesburg: Media groups here have reacted strongly to a restriction by a court on the publication by a local newspaper group of the Danish-origin cartoons about Prophet Mohammed that have sparked global outrage. Moulana Ebrahim Bham of the Jamiatul Ulema of Transvaal welcomed the court's decision and called on local Muslims - who had threatened drastic action similar to that by Muslims in Syria...

BEIRUT -- Thousands of Muslims rioted Sunday in downtown Beirut, setting fire to the Danish Consulate, attacking a Maronite Catholic church and smashing car and shop windows in protest of the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Western newspapers. The violence took a sectarian turn as demonstrators cut an angry path through a predominantly Christian neighborhood. It was the first...

So now it's cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed with a bomb-shaped turban. Ambassadors are withdrawn from Denmark, Gulf nations clear their shelves of Danish produce, Gaza gunmen threaten the European Union. In Denmark, Fleming Rose, the "culture" editor of the pip-squeak newspaper which published these silly cartoons - last September, for heaven's sake - announces that we are witnessing a "clash of...

PARIS (Reuters) - Fresh protests erupted across Asia and the Middle East over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Monday, despite calls by world leaders for calm after Danish diplomatic missions were set ablaze in Lebanon and Syria. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed alarm and urged restraint but oil giant Iran, which is reviewing trade ties with countries that published the cartoons...

A South African editor has received threats after her paper reprinted one of the cartoons that have angered Muslim groups internationally. Ferial Haffajee, editor of the Mail and Guardian said she had received abusive letters and text messages. On Friday, South African Muslim activists won an interdict barring another paper, the Sunday Times, from printing the cartoons. Cartoons of the prophet...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern at the arrest of two Jordanian editors in Amman for publishing cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed. The journalists, charged twice in three days, face criminal counts that include incitement to violence and blasphemy. The action comes as violence against journalists was reported in Lebanon, and a South African court censored two top...

The cartoon was disgracefully insensitive. It depicted a barbed wire Star of David in which innocent Palestinian men, women and children were trapped. By the time it appeared in the Seattle Times in July 2003, hundreds of Israeli civilians had been mercilessly slaughtered by Palestinian terrorists in what they call the "second intifada." But compared to what is typically found in the Arab press...

Several hundred people gather for a come-as-you are demonstration for peace and understanding As many as a thousand people gathered in the shadow of the offices of newspaper Jyllands-Posten Sunday afternoon to demonstrate in support of dialogue in the intensifying debate over the newspaper's caricatures of the prophet Mohammed. The demonstration, attended by ethnic Danes as well as Danes of Muslim...