What are the long-term consequences of the Prophet Mohammed cartoon furor? I predict it is helping bring on not a clash of civilizations, but their mutual pulling apart. This separation, which has been building for years, has dreadful implications. Signs of disengagement are all around. Trade: Boycotts now exist in both directions. Even as the U.S. government sanctions Iranian products, Iranian...
TEHERAN - The chief editor of the Iranian daily Hamshahri on Tuesday called on Danish newspapers to join its self-initiated international cartoon competition on the Holocaust. "The Danish daily which insulted our prophet, as well as other Danish dailies, can attend our cartoon competition," Mohammed-Reza Zarei told reporters in Teheran. Zarei, a cleric, said his newspaper would also be willing to...
BRUSSELS, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The United States and Europe should respond to the row over cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammad by intensifying efforts to nurture Middle East reform, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday. Accusing authorities in Iran and Syria of stoking popular anger at the pictures, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Dan Fried said the dispute showed...
The editorial staff of the independent daily newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said Monday that its members were embarrassed by how the decision was made to run controversial Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad last week. "We want to make it clear that while we do not necessarily disagree with the decision to print these cartoons, we disagree with how they were run,"...
Two high-ranking editors of the student newspaper at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were suspended Tuesday after they decided on their own to run some of the controversial cartoons that have sparked protests and outrage from Muslims around the world. Acton Gorton, the editor in chief of the Daily Illini, and Chuck Prochaska, the opinions editor, said they stand behind their decision...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's best-selling newspaper on Tuesday defended its competition for cartoons about the Holocaust, saying it was a test of the boundaries of free speech espoused by Western countries. The Hamshahri newspaper contest, which has been strongly condemned by Jewish organizations and Western governments, follows widespread ire in the Islamic world over caricatures published in the...
A Gallup poll shows 61 percent of U.S. respondents say the European publications that printed controversial Muslim cartoons acted irresponsibly. The telephone poll of 1,000 people Thursday through Sunday found 29 percent said the newspapers and magazine had made a responsible decision in printing the cartoons that satirize the Prophet Mohammed. Ten percent had no opinion. However, not only the...
KUALA LUMPUR: Muslim protests across the world condemning cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) are driven by fears Islam is under attack, and by the fact that it is easier to protest than to battle tough social issues, moderate Muslims say. From disputes over wearing headscarves to desecration of the Quran, many Muslims worry over what they see as onslaughts of the West, but rooting out poverty...
DUBAI: The controversy surrounding cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published in several European newspapers could disrupt free trade negotiations between the European Union and the oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, reports said on Monday. The Gulf News quoted a Saudi official involved in the talks as saying a final free trade agreement was due to be signed in December 2005 but had...
A popular Arab television talk show is taking a group of young people to Denmark in an effort to channel Muslim anger over the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed into more constructive dialogue. The presenter and producer of Yalla Chabab, a show on the Saudi-backed MBC channel that tries to highlight success stories in the Arab world, are planning to take young Arabs to visit Jyllands-Posten, the...
