The decision of some newspapers to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed lead some to argue that the media should be a force for tolerance and cohesion as well as a source of news. Speaking at a recent debate convened by Index on Censorship, the BBC’s head of news, Richard Sambrook, considered this argument. Sometimes, the dividing line between proper media regulation and...
LONDON (Reuters) - The country's normally provocative newspapers have so far refused to publish the cartoons of Prophet Mohammad that have outraged the Islamic world, prompting some commentators to question whether they have become too politically correct. The Sun said it had chosen not to print the cartoons out of respect for its Muslim readers while other papers said it was important not to...
(CNSNews.com) - A U.S.-based Islamic civil rights group is urging people of all faiths to turn a cartoon controversy into a "positive learning experience." On Thursday, representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations met with the Norwegian ambassador to the United States to discuss the controversy surrounding publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. A Danish newspaper...
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Muslim reaction to the cartoon depictions of the Prophet Mohammed indicates that Muslims think they are "holier" than the rest of the world, an expert on racial hatred said. Anti-European sentiment spread throughout the Middle East on Thursday after a number of European newspapers reprinted 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Islamic scholars say that any...
Muslim extremists are using the furore over the Prophet Mohammed cartoons published in European newspapers to rally the faithful to a jihad (holy war), in several Internet postings. "Brothers, it's war against Islam ..., grab your swords," says hardline Saudi cleric Sheikh Badr bin Nader al-Mashari in a voice recording posted on an Islamist website. He said the cartoons - first published by a...
You would think that after drafting an editorial cartoon that brought the wrath of Islam down on his head, a man would think twice about stepping back into the fray. But Doug Marlette, a Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist from North Carolina, says he admires the European newspapers that are defending their right to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. "This is a war of two...
TORONTO -- Cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a terrorist are deeply offensive, but so is the violent reaction to the drawings from Islamic extremists, Canadian Muslims said yesterday. "The protests in the Middle East have proven that the cartoonist was right," said Tarek Fatah, a director of the Muslim Canadian Congress. "It's falling straight into that trap of being depicted as a violent...
Protests have spread across the Muslim world over the publication in European news papers of cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. Outrage over the cartoons has ignited demonstrations from Turkey to the Gaza Strip, and prompted a boycott of Danish products throughout the Middle East. In Pakistan, hundreds demonstrated on Thursday, chanting "Death to Denmark" and burning Danish and...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's parliament unanimously passed a resolution Friday condemning cartoons of Islam's prophet in European newspapers, and small protests were held in major cities as anger grew in this Islamic nation. Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf also expressed outrage, saying the cartoon could not be justified as freedom of expression. The resolution said the cartoons --...
PARIS, France (AP) -- The managing editor of a French newspaper has been fired over publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that are inflaming the Muslim world, where Pakistani protesters on Thursday chanted "Death to France!" and Gaza gunmen demanded apologies from European governments. The furor over the drawings, which first ran in a Danish paper in September, cuts to the question of...
