The Cartoon Row

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) criticized on Tuesday, May 16, Denmark for allowing a climate of suspicion and hatred towards Muslims and blasted as provocative cartoons lampooning Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him). "ECRI notes with deep concern that the situation concerning Muslims in Denmark has worsened since its second report," the independent...

NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - Controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have been reprinted in a U.S. magazine with commentary by leading U.S. cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who offers what he calls a "fatwa bomb meter" to rate their offensiveness. Harper's Magazine published the article by Spiegelman in its June edition available on newsstands from Tuesday, joining only a handful of U.S...

The British Council is launching a media guide to the Muslim community next week, to be used as a reference source and training tool for young journalists. Put together by writer Ehsan Masood, British Muslims: Media Guide is being will be published by Counterpoint, the British Council's think-tank on cultural relations. It will aim to address issues such as: how British Muslims feel they are...

A man believed to be a top al Qaeda militant who escaped from a US airbase in Afghanistan urged Muslims in an internet video to launch attacks in Europe as revenge for cartoons that lampooned the Prophet Mohammad. A website often used by militants posted a video from a man identified as Abu Yahya al-Libi in which he called for Muslims to "send rivers of blood" down the streets of Denmark, Norway...

THE outcry over the Islamic cartoons published by Denmark's leading newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, had escalated into the biggest Danish foreign policy crisis since World War II, Hans-Henrik Holm, the professor of international relations at the Danish School of Journalism and Aarhus University, said yesterday. Professor Holm said the crisis was completely unforeseen by the editors of the newspaper...

Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader, who led criticism of a Danish newspaper that published drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, has decided to leave the country, the daily reported Thursday. Imam Ahmed Abu Laban said he has felt humiliated in the aftermath of the cartoon controversy, which led to riots around the world, and that he would leave Denmark to return to Gaza with his family, the...

ILLINOIS – More than 2,500 copies of an Illinois college student newspaper containing the cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad were stolen on Friday. Kristina Zaremba, editor in chief of the Courier, the student newspaper at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., said the papers went missing shortly after they were distributed Friday morning. Zaremba said the cartoons were published along...

The Western media have the right to show images that can potentially cause uproar, political turmoil or insult religious groups, argues Roger Koeppel, editor-in-chief of the center-right German paper Die Welt. Koeppel's remarks were made during a debate entitled "Is free expression sacred?" to commemorate UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day 2006, which honors "the media as a force for change" and for...

The student newspaper at the College of DuPage on Friday published the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that caused widespread protests, many of them violent, across the Islamic world earlier this year. But copies of the Courier newspaper were hard to find on the Glen Ellyn campus Friday, a college spokesman said, because most of the free papers had been removed from distribution bins. The...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani student who was arrested for allegedly trying to hurt a German newspaper editor for publishing Prophet Muhammad cartoons has died in custody in Berlin, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday. Tasnim Aslam identified the student as Amer Cheema, but would not say exactly when he had been arrested. She said an initial report from Berlin suggested that Cheema...