9 February 2006 Three independent United Nations human rights experts have strongly deplored the recent controversial depictions of the Prophet Muhammad as well as the violent reactions that ensued while urging all to come together in a spirit of dialogue. This view was expressed in statement released in Geneva late Wednesday that was endorsed by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of...
A BRITISH magazine said today it would not publish a controversial cartoon of prophet Mohammed, after police said they could not guarantee the safety of its staff if it went ahead. The Liberal magazine was intending to publish one of the 12 Danish cartoons which have caused global uproar - alongside a statement on free speech. But the statement now appears on the magazine's website. Readers are...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The combustible cartoon war quickly became shorthand for what radical Muslim clerics had been planning for months - a clash of civilizations. The offending Danish cartoons, first published almost five months ago, were mild compared to how some cartoonists in Western democracies slash and singe organized religion. One late night comedian did a skit of a TV news anchor...
Amman - A redefinition of the freedom of expression that incorporates 'standardized' universally-accepted religious taboos is becoming increasingly necessary in the light of the enormous row triggered by the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, prominent scholars and media experts suggested Thursday. They contend that the caricatures, regarded throughout the Islamic world as...
Despite the outrage caused by the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in several European newspapers, such controversy is nothing new in the realm of political caricature. Eighty-one years ago David Low caused a similar response from the Muslim world when he drew a rather benign looking Muhammad gazing up at English cricket hero Sir Jack Hobbs. Appearing in the Indian version of the...
MUSLIM anger at the publication in Denmark of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad showed some signs of abating yesterday, but a French weekly risked stoking the row further by republishing the caricatures alongside a new one. As Muslim demonstrators attacked western institutions across the world, Jacques Chirac, the French president, condemned the "overt provocations" by the magazine. French...
PARIS -- Extra! Extra! Read all about it! That street corner cry of yesteryear is resonating at some European publications that have enjoyed a boom in sales and Web traffic after printing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have stoked outrage across the Islamic world. Denmark's biggest-circulation broadsheet, Jyllands-Posten, triggered the controversy in September by publishing 12 cartoons...
CAIRO - Egyptian writer and Nobel literature prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz has said a boycott of Danish products over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed was "the only option" for Muslims to retaliate. "A boycott may not be the best means of addressing what happened but under the circumstances it's the only option we have. The world only understands the language of force," he told the English...
WASHINGTON -- As the rage of anti-Western demonstrations in several Islamic countries shows, picture depictions of the prophet Muhammad are a sensitive issue in modern Islam. But Islamic scholars note that there were some Islamic countries where depicting Muhammad was once accepted by local customs, and book illustrations of Muhammad in Islamic texts survive today that were drawn in Persian and...
Copenhagen - A Danish newspaper at the centre of the ongoing row over controversial Mohammed cartoons refuted reports that it planned to publish anti-Semitic or anti-Christian caricatures, the chief editor said Thursday. Jyllands-Posten's editor Carsten Juste's statement was published on the newspaper's web site after a Danish television channel reported that publication was pending this Sunday...
