The Cartoon Row

The publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad caused outrage and violence across the Muslim world several months ago. Now a militant Muslim group with a presence in Germany and other European nations has published a list of newspapers that reprinted the cartoons, urging Muslims to take action against Western journalists. The article in the latest issue of an online journal published...

Copenhagen (Denmark), May 03: A Danish newspaper has said it had filed a defamation lawsuit against a lawyer representing a group of Muslim organisations that sued the daily for publishing Prophet Muhammad cartoons, which sparked riots across the world. The Jyllands-Posten sued Michael Christiani Havemann for saying its top editors ordered a cartoonists to deliberately make a "gross" drawing of...

Janne Virkkunen, the editor of Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's biggest broadsheet, said in a media seminar on Tuesday that the decision by Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (centre) to apologise for the posting of Jyllands-Posten's Mohammed cartoons by a Finnish right-wing website as ill-advised. "The prime minister's action was simply imprudent," Mr Virkkunent said, receiving the approval of other...

27 April 2006 - A Yemeni court decided yesterday to postpone the trial session of Akram Sabra and Yehia Al-Abed, editors of Al-Hurriya Newspaper who are being charged for publishing cartoons offensive to the Prophet Mohammed, to a session on 17 May, while freezing the license to print the three newspapers that printed the cartoons. The Yemeni Ministry of Information had filed a complaint against...

(CRN/IFEX) - According to a 24 April 2006 Reuters UK release, comments recently attributed to the al Qaeda leader raised the general level of threat against the 12 Danish cartoonists who had produced the controversial cartoons for the "Jyllands-Posten" newspaper. Speaking in the context of the cartoons, bin Laden was quoted as saying, "Heretics and atheists, who denigrate religion and transgress...

As dozens gathered Tuesday night in a University of Chicago lecture hall to discuss the visceral and sometimes violent reaction to cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, Muslim students who had been invited decided to watch a movie across campus instead. The three-man panel discussion, organized by the university's chapter of the Objectivist Club, mainly focused on the U.S. media's reluctance...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has called for people who ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad to be killed, weighing into the furore that erupted after a Danish newspaper ran cartoons lampooning Islam's holy messenger. "Heretics and atheists, who denigrate religion and transgress against God and His Prophet, will not stop their enmity towards Islam except by being killed," the Saudi...

THE controversy over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was reignited yesterday after an Italian Catholic magazine printed one on its front cover. Studi Cattolici carried a drawing of the Prophet in Hell, with the Italian writer Dante Alighieri asking the poet Virgil: "That man divided in two from his head to his feet - isn't that Muhammad?" Virgil replies: "Yes, it is him and he is in two because...

ROME - The editor of an Italian monthly has apologized for any offense to Muslims over a humorous caption for a drawing showing the Prophet Muhammad in hell, Italian news reports said Sunday. Italian news agencies on Sunday quoted the journal‘s editor, Cesare Cavalleri, as "apologizing, as a Christian," for any offense. Milan daily Corriere della Sera said that the journal had run a humorous...

A Russian court today convicted and fined the editor of a newspaper who was charged with inciting religious strife by publishing the Prophet Muhammad cartoons two months ago. The Vologda city court found weekly Nash Region editor Anna Smirnova guilty of deliberately stirring up religious hatred and intolerance, as well as abuse of her position. She was ordered to pay 100,000 rubles (€2,978) in...