The Spectator has pulled a controversial cartoon of the prophet Muhammad from its website. The image was one of a series of cartoons - originally published in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten - that have generated outrage in the Muslim world and a huge row about freedom of speech across Europe. The magazine's acting editor, Stuart Reid, said he had not been responsible for uploading the picture...
PARIS, February 1, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) French Muslim leaders on Wednesday, February 1, denounced in unison the reprinting of a series of explosive cartoons blasphemous to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by a French daily and vowed to take the case to French courts. "We call on French Muslims to peacefully protest this aggression on the Prophet of Islam," the French Council for the Muslim Religion...
Free speech means the right to be offensive about religious beliefs, MEPs insist amid a growing Muslim censorship row. Furious international and pan-European controversy has broken out over the publication of cartoons depicting Muslim prophet Muhammed in a Danish newspaper. Some Islamic countries have demanded bans on the publication of the cartoons, arguing that the caricatures are offensive and...
The diplomatic crisis between Denmark and the Muslim world may have been relatively slow to gather pace but now that it has, it is having a real impact. It began with a series of cartoons in a Danish newspaper - including one of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb. But today few people are laughing. The global outrage has led to the recall of ambassadors; Danish citizens...
A couple of simple caricatures printed in a Danish newspaper has the Arab world outraged. Unfortunately, the paper apologized for the Muhammad-critical cartoons and democratic values lost out to totalitarian ideology. In Germany and the rest of free Europe, one likes to talk about the necessity of learning from the past, of helping newcomers to the democratic club and of supporting stable...
Building a mosque in Copenhagen would help to relieve tensions between Denmark and the Muslim world, says Herbert Pundik, a former editor of daily newspaper Politiken. The country's 200,000 Muslims currently are relegated to some 50 makeshift mosques throughout the country. Pundik suggested that construction of a permanent mosque could serve as an olive branch to Muslims angered by drawings of the...
Twelve drawings of Muhammad printed in a major Danish newspaper have turned millions of Muslims against Denmark. And one man's mission has transformed the caricatures into the stuff of international diplomacy. The Arab world, though, isn't being given the full story. It was just twelve simple drawing published in a Danish newspaper. But they have triggered an international relations crisis for...
The Americans may call them surrender-monkeys, but the French can sometimes teach the world something about pluck -- or maybe foolhardiness. France Soir has just courted big trouble by printing across two pages all 12 of the Danish newspaper cartoons that have caused such a furore in the Muslim world. For good measure, they ran their own cartoon across the front page, featuring not just the...
A fatwa, or legal Islamic ruling, appears to have been issued against Danish soldiers stationed in Iraq, the Danish defence ministry said on Tuesday. "I can confirm that we've heard about the fatwa from a reliable source in Iraq ... so we believe it's true," Defence Minister Soeren Gade's spokesman Jacob Winther told AFP. The report came amid rising Muslim anger over 12 cartoons published in...
Denmark and Norway on Tuesday tried to curb the damage caused by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper, while Arab interior ministers called on Denmark to "firmly sanction" the authors of the caricatures. A Norwegian magazine which reprinted the caricatures said Tuesday it "regretted" offending Muslims but stopped short of issuing an apology, a day after the editor of...
