The Cartoon Row

COPENHAGEN, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Denmark's ambassadors and embassy staff in Indonesia and Iran have left the two countries after receiving threats linked to the printing of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a Danish newspaper. "The ambassador and the expatriate staff at the embassy in Tehran have temporarily left Iran. This is due to information about serious, concrete threats against the...

When a Danish newspaper published cartoons lampooning the prophet Muhammad in September, few people outside the Scandinavian nation took notice -- until a group of Danish Muslim organizations turned to Islamic leaders in the Middle East after their attempts to bring the issue to the attention of Danish authorities had failed. Now, as the tempest of Muslim rage over the caricatures thunders across...

Muslim demonstrators have been torching embassies, stoning churches and threatening mass murder to protest cartoons characterizing Muslims as violent extremists and express their outrage at those who say they are intolerant. The damage these demonstrators are doing to the image of Islam is incalculable, far beyond what any poison-penned cartoonist could accomplish. So why are they doing it...

Hundreds of Muslims chanted and carried banners and signs outside The Inquirer building Saturday afternoon, protesting the newspaper's decision to reprint a controversial caricature of the prophet Muhammad. Many said they felt the paper had defamed their religion by publishing an image that has angered Muslims across the world and resulted in mass protests and the burning of embassies. Many...

Copenhagen/Oslo - Hopes rose Friday in the Nordic region that the storm triggered by the controversial publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammed had largely subsided. Observers highlighted that the religious mourning ceremonies of Ashura, which commemorate the anniversary of the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein, passed Thursday without any reports of attacks on Danish or...

More than 50 per cent of Norwegians are of the opinion that it was wrong to publish the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed. This is shown by a survey made for Aftenposten by Norsk Respons. Of those asked, 57 per cent said it was wrong to pubish the drawings, while 30 per cent say it was correct to publish them. 13 per cent were unsure. The opposition to publishing is strongest among women. A...

The editor of the small Christian weekly "Magazinet", Vebjoern Selbekk(photo), at a press conference on Friday apologized for his decision to publish a facsimile of the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten. Selbekk said he deeply regretted that he had offended the religious feelings of all Muslims by reprinting the Danish drawings. He...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The Muslim Students Association at the University of North Carolina on Friday asked the campus' student newspaper to apologize for publishing an original cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. "The intention of bigotry was clear," the association wrote in a letter to The Daily Tar Heel. "One must question the DTH's ethics in advancing a widely protested issue to cause a riot...

The clash over the Muhammad cartoons isn't just between "the West" and Islam. It's more between Muslims. Protests over the derogatory cartoons were purposely fanned by Arab leaders who need to look like mightier defenders of Islam than the jihadists who want to overthrow them and unite all Muslims. Many actions by the West serve as merely a foil in a long intra-Muslim struggle over whether to...

Copenhagen (dpa) - The Danish newspaper at the centre of the Mohammed caricature row sent its cultural editor Flemming Rose on an extended enforced leave of absence Thursday. The Jyllands Posten was reacting to Rose's plan from Tuesday to publish caricatures of Jesus as well as caricatures of the Holocaust planned by Iran. The editorial board had denied that it planned to publish the caricatures...