The Cartoon Row

Copenhagen - A Danish newspaper published Friday some of the controversial cartoons recently exhibited in Iran that satirized the Holocaust, saying the move was necessary since the exhibition had its roots in Denmark. The exhibition in Tehran was organized in the wake of massive protests in the Muslim world earlier this year sparked by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's decision to publish...

(AJI/IFEX) - AJI is calling for an international appeal to respond to the detention of Teguh Santosa, chief editor of "Rakyat Merdeka Online" (RMOL), on 19 July 2006, at 6:00 p.m. (local time). He is being held at Cipinang Prison in Jakarta. Teguh was questioned at the Jakarta Police Office a few weeks ago based on a report made by a group of people regarding a cartoon published in the 2 February...

COPENHAGEN: Flemming Rose, the Danish editor who published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that ignited what some called a war of civilizations, walked into a conference hall full of European and American Muslims here Monday, braced for more of the same. Instead, some - Americans in particular - lined up to be photographed with him. And, though some Danish Muslims took him to task, he said, "we...

Moscow: The Editor-in-Chief of Danish Jyllands-Posten, Joernn Mikkelsen, described the newspaper's publication of cartoons on the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) as being a "genuine journalistic exercise". Speaking at a special session (Lessons from the Mohammad cartoon clash) as part of the 59th World Newspaper Congress and the 13th World Editors Forum, Mikkelsen reiterated that the intention behind the...

Moscow, June 7, Interfax - The authors of the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and triggered Muslims' angry protests worldwide are still getting death threats, Jyllands-Posten Editor-in-Chief Jorn Mikkelsen said at the 13th World Editors Forum organized by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) in Moscow on Tuesday. "Twelve of our...

MOSCOW, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The international journalist community should learn the lesson of the cartoon scandal and avoid steps that may incite religiously motivated violence, said delegates to the 13th World Editors Forum in Moscow. The delegates, who represent the Western and Islamic media, put different accents but were unanimous in the appeal for respect for religious feelings. Joern...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is protesting against two-month jail sentences imposed on 30 May 2006 by a Jordanian court on two journalists, Jihad Momani and Hisham Al-Khalidi, for reprinting cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that appeared in a Danish paper last year and expressed concern about journalists being harshly punished for doing so. "This is the first time journalists have been...

New York, May 23, 2006 - Newspaper editor Mohammed al-Asaadi is on trial in Yemen on criminal charges of insulting Islam by running edited versions of some of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons that created an international storm. Al-Asaadi, editor of the Yemen Observer, faces severe jail time and a possible death sentence for his editorial decision. The case, which also led to the three-month closure...

European political correctness allows Muslims to resist integration, argues the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten. Instead, Muslims should be treated just like all Europeans -- including being subject to satire. He argues that publishing the caricatures was an act of "inclusion, not exclusion." The worldwide furor unleashed by the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed that I published last September in...

Danish Muslims are increasingly giving their new-born babies Islamic names to help preserve their identity, with that of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) being the most favored choice. "My wife and I have agreed to give our boys and girls Islamic names in the hope they would reflect positively on their personalities," Omran Tharwat told IslamOnline.net on Wednesday, May 10. He...