The Cartoon Row

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the closing of two Yemeni newspapers and a Malaysian paper after they published controversial cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed. At least four governments have now taken punitive action against newspapers or their editors for publishing some of the 12 cartoons that have sparked protests and violence in several cities, CPJ research shows....

The 135-year-old newspaper that enflamed the Muslim world by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad once offended Nikita Khrushchev so much that the Soviet leader canceled a trip to Denmark. After deadly riots in the Muslim world, the paper remains defiant with Editor-in-Chief Carsten Juste rejecting suggestions that he resign. But Juste said his paper would not join an Iranian paper in...

The Danish paper that printed the cartoons of Muhammad wanted to stir up trouble -- and the government wanted a culture war. They got more than they bargained for. Kashmir this week declared a nationwide protest against 12 cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published four months ago in a provincial Danish paper. Iran officially launched a cartoon war against the West, calling for...

Imams' critical statements about Denmark in Muslim media have angered the minister of integration affairs Political criticism of local imams in recent days has led the integration minister to exclude the muslim clerics from discussions of the integration of Muslims into Danish society. Some imams have reportedly offered statements to media in Muslim countries that harmed Danish interests in the on...

HEBRON, West Bank, Feb 8 (Reuters) - International monitors decided on Wednesday to pull out of the West Bank city of Hebron temporarily after Palestinians attacked their headquarters in protest at European cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. "We are leaving Hebron temporarily because of the damage to the four buildings but we will return," said Arnstein Overkil, the Norwegian head of the TIPH...

NEW YORK: A relatively small daily newspaper in Victorville, Calif., is one of the few in the U.S. to run one of the Muhammad cartoons sparking riots and killings abroad. Don Holland, the editor of the Freedom Communications Inc. paper, the Daily Press, explains in a column today, "I'm sure most Americans are curious about this controversial cartoon, which depicts the Muslim prophet Mohammed with...

(Rocklin, Calif.) www.PeaceCartoon.com is promoting an alternative to the rage and violence brought about by the recent publication of a cartoon drawing of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Cash and prizes are being offered to artists that submit cartoons that highlight peace and tolerance. The goal of the site is to provide an outlet to those would like to see a peaceful end to this controversy. "The...

ANKARA, Feb. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan said on Wednesday that Turkey continued to take the initiative in preventing escalation of the cartoon crisis. Speaking at a weekly news conference, Tan said that the reaction of some Muslim countries to the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad was tough. "Public opinion in Muslim countries considered the printing of the...

The protests against the caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad are not disappearing. But the voices of sanity are getting louder. As the fury over the caricatures in the Muslim world intensifies, the deeper fear in Europe is that this conflict is here to stay. Indeed, the daily images from the Middle East show no signs of abating on Wednesday, and Europeans have begun making moves to adjust...

LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union may try to draw up a media code of conduct to avoid a repeat of the furor caused by the publication across Europe of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, an EU commissioner said on Thursday. In an interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph, EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said the charter would encourage the media to show "prudence" when...