A member of Rockhampton's Muslim community has expressed disappointment that a cartoon that it believes is offensive was published in a local newspaper. The Morning Bulletin has published one of the cartoons that has sparked a violent reaction overseas. Dr Saleh Wasimi says he told the newspaper that the small central Queensland Muslim community would be offended by the publication, but it went...
The Taliban will give 100kg of gold as a reward to anyone who kills the person responsible for the contentious Danish cartoons, Afghan Islamic Press reports. "Any one who will kill the person responsible for blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in Denmark would be rewarded 100 kilogram of gold by the Taliban," Mullah Dadullah, chief military commander of the Taliban, said. Dadullah also said...
A mass demonstration of 100,000 Muslims will take place in London next weekend as anger continues over publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The Muslim Action Committee, an umbrella group which claims to represent more than a million Muslims, said it would do as much as it could to prevent the ugly scenes seen last week when protesters carried placards issuing death threats and one man...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 8 – As leaders of the world's 57 Muslim nations gathered for a summit meeting in Mecca in December, issues like religious extremism dominated the official agenda. But much of the talk in the hallways was of a wholly different issue: Danish cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad. The closing communiqué took note of the issue when it expressed "concern at rising hatred...
KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 -- Like tens of thousands of protesters this week, the crowd that gathered Wednesday in the southern Afghan town of Qalat came to speak out against cartoons in European newspapers mocking the prophet Muhammad. But the protest soon took a much different direction. Afghan demonstrators began chanting against the hiring of Pakistanis to do reconstruction work. Pakistanis in...
Editors, not governments, should decide what is published in the media, the Cabinet said on Wednesday. However, it warned that the sensitivities of individuals and communities should also be respected. Government spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe said: "South Africa upholds the principle of freedom of speech. However, we appreciate that our constitution enjoins us, in exercising this right, to...
NEW YORK Muhammed Zahny is upset - and not about the cold wind that is keeping customers away from his store on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue. "If I lose money, I don't care," says Mr. Zahny, who owns "Islamic Fashions." "But if I lose respect, then I have nothing left." Zahny, originally from Egypt, says the recent republication of Danish newspaper cartoons depicting Muhammad, the messenger of...
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 8 -- Mohammad Fouad Barazi, a prominent Muslim cleric here, received a text message on his cell phone last week. It was a mass mailing from an anonymous sender, he said, warning that Danish people were planning to burn the Koran that Saturday in Copenhagen's City Hall Square out of anger over Muslim demonstrations against Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. Hundreds of people...
Thousands of copies of a student newspaper have been pulped and three of its journalists suspended by their students' union after publishing a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Cardiff University paper Gair Rhydd, which means "Free Word" in Welsh, is believed to be the first newspaper in Britain to have published the controversial image, which has sparked protests around the world...
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia has decided to suspend the publishing licence of a daily newspaper after it published the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide, the New Straits Times said on Thursday. The Sarawak Tribune ran the caricatures last weekend to illustrate a story on its inside pages about the global fury in what it called an "oversight" by a non-Muslim night...
