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JAKARTA - Indonesian Muslims on Thursday conveyed their anger over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper to a visiting Red Cross official from the country, reports said. Dozens of people picketed the governor's office in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar during a visit by Danish Red Cross secretary-general Jorgen Paulsen. "Please tell your country...

Amman (dpa) - The owners of Jordan's Shihan Weekly on Thursday fired the paper's editor for republishing three of the 12 Danish cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Mohammed which have triggered outrage in the Arab world and a campaign to boycott Danish products. "The Arab Printers Company which owns Shihan Weekly has decided to fire its editor Jihad Momani as of Thursday after republishing the...

AMMAN, Jordan In one of several Middle Eastern protests Thursday, a Jordanian newspaper took the bold step of publishing the Danish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad that have outraged Muslims, saying it was reprinting them to show readers "the extent of the Danish offense." The Arabic weekly Shihan ran three of the 12 cartoons, including the one that depicts Muhammad as wearing a turban shaped like...

DUBAI – "Freedom of expression is one thing, but it should not be confused with acts of inciting feelings, which is what has happened in Denmark." This was how many responded to an ongoing survey by Khaleej Times on the publication of cartoons insulting Islam as a religion. "America took objection to the way Al Jazeera was covering the Iraq war, saying such coverage was inciting anti-American...

PARIS, Feb. 1 -- Newspapers across Europe reprinted cartoons Wednesday ridiculing the prophet Muhammad, saying they wanted to support the right of Danish and Norwegian papers to publish the caricatures, which have ignited fury among Muslims throughout the world. Germany's Die Welt daily newspaper published one of the drawings on its front page and said the "right to blasphemy" is one of the...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has appealed for calm and reason even as the controversy over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed moved in disturbing new directions: "While we understand that many Muslims have been shocked by these caricatures, as Islam forbids any physical representation of the Prophet, there is no justification for calls for violence or threats of any kind." The...

PARIS (Reuters) - One man's cartoon can be another man's crime. The row over Danish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, which has sparked off protests and boycott calls throughout the Middle East, has turned into a verbal clash of civilizations pitting Western freedom of speech against Muslim taboos. The more that Muslim countries protest, withdraw ambassadors and boycott Danish goods over what...

Muslim condemnation of the European media campaign to reprint controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed spread on Thursday, with leaders warning the controversy could play into the hands of extremists. President Hosni Mubarak said the reprinting of the cartoons – originally published by Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, they were reproduced this week in newspapers across Europe – would lead to...

In September 2005, a Danish newspaper published 10 cartoons, including one depicting the prophet Muhammad with a bomb on his turban. There were immediate protests within Denmark and the situation has recently escalated to the point where Danish goods are being boycotted, Scandinavian aid workers have been pulled out of Gaza and ambassadors have been recalled. One striking feature of these events...

The BBC has involved itself in a growing Europe-wide controversy by broadcasting cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused outrage in the Islamic world and led to the sacking of a French newspaper editor. The corporation showed the images as they appeared in French newspaper France Soir as part of a story on the controversy on today's One O'Clock News bulletin and on the News 24 channel...