JEDDAH, 18 February 2006 – Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, is contacting member states for an emergency meeting of their foreign ministers shortly to discuss major issues including the repercussions of the sacrilegious Danish cartoons. Ihsanoglu has already spoken to Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Yemeni Foreign Minister...
THE American left and right don't agree on much, but weeks of demonstrations and embassy burnings have pushed them toward convergence on one point: there is, if not a clash of civilizations, at least a very big gap between the "Western world" and the "Muslim world." When you get beyond this consensus – the cultural chasm consensus – and ask what to do about the problem, there is less agreement...
(AgapePress) - According to the Quran, depicting the prophet Muhammad in any "mortal medium" is forbidden. Tell that to the editors of the Daily Tar Heel and the Western Standard, who are claiming they are fully within their rights as journalists to publish cartoons portraying the founder of Islam -- some of which have sparked a great deal of outrage in the Muslim world. The student newspaper at...
A Gallup newspaper is facing heat after it became the first paper in the state to publish a controversial cartoon that had led to violence elsewhere. The Gallup Independent published two cartoons poking fun at Mohammed, the prophet of Islam. Jamal Jawad, who is Muslim, said he supports freedom of the press, but doesn’t support the paper’s decision. "The newspaper just wants publicity for its own...
European Jews have expressed a mixture of anger and frustration as the furor over a Muslim cartoon erupted into violence in Europe and the Middle East. As frequent targets of anti-Semitic cartoons – many of them in the Arab press – Jews on one hand sympathized with the Muslim outrage over depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, which is considered by Muslims to be blasphemous. But Jews joined...
Prosecutor’s Office of Vologda, northwestern Russia, has launched a criminal case against an editor of a local newspaper for republishing scandalous Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, Gazeta.ru reported. The journalist Anna Smirnova is accused of provoking religious hatred and abuse of authority. On Feb. 15 Nash Region+ (Our Region+) paper published cartoons found in the Internet to...
A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country. Police confined the former leader of an Islamic militant group to his home to prevent him from addressing supporters over the cartoons, amid fears he could incite...
COPENHAGEN, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Most Danes think Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is doing a good to average job at managing the row over the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, which have led to violent protests in many Muslim countries. The majority of Danes are split, with 41.5 percent saying Rasmussen has handled the crisis well and about 40 percent saying he has done an average job, a poll...
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Fury among Muslims worldwide over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has led to deadly violence and bitter accusations between the West and the Islamic world. But Niamatullah Basharat sees a silver lining. "Every Muslim feels hurt by these drawings," the Danish imam said at the small Nusrat Djahan mosque on the outskirts of Copenhagen. "But Denmark has talked more about...
BERLIN: Even as Muslim rage continues over Danish cartoons that satirized the Prophet Muhammad, another cartoon, in a German newspaper, likening Iranian soccer players to suicide bombers has provoked anger in Iran and an official demand for an apology. The cartoon, published last Friday in Der Tagesspiegel, depicts Iranian soccer players with bombs strapped to their waists standing next to a group...
