The Cartoon Row

SINGAPORE, Feb. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Several Islamic organizations in Singapore have expressed their opposition to any form of violence by Muslims in the recent cartoon conflict, according to Channel News Asia report on Wednesday night. They were quoted as saying that being overly sensitive and responding irrationally would only intensify the negative image others hold toward Islam. They called for...

Feb. 8, 2006 – World leaders were caught off guard by Muslim outrage over 12 cartoons that negatively depicted the Prophet Mohammed in the European press. A torrent of anger and protest has rocked Muslim countries from Indonesia to tiny Lebanon, at times turning violent. World leaders were also surprised by the spectacular victory of Hamas (official name: the Islamic Resistance Movement) in...

BERLIN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - An Iranian newspaper's call for Holocaust cartoons is an attempt to drag Israel into a conflict between Europe and the Muslim world over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, German government minister said. "After denying the right of Israel to exist and denying the Holocaust, the people around President (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad are trying to escalate the situation," said...

A student newspaper editor who published a controversial cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed is today said to be 'devastated'. Tom Wellingham, editor of Gair Rhydd, Cardiff's University Students' Union paper, was suspended after publishing the caricature, which sparked protests across the world when it was previously published by a Danish newspaper. The Gair Rhydd copies were hastily pulled off...

In April 2003 Danish illustrator Christoffer Zieler submitted a series of unsolicited cartoons offering a lighthearted take on the resurrection of Christ to the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Zieler received an e-mail from the paper's Sunday editor, Jens Kaiser, saying: "I don't think Jyllands-Posten's readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think they will provoke an outcry...

Kabul – Afghanistan's top Islamic organization on Wednesday called for an end to violent protests over drawings of the Prophet Mohammed, as police shot four protesters to death to stop a crowd from marching on a U.S. military base in the southern part of the country. "Islam says it's all right to demonstrate but not to resort to violence. This must stop," senior cleric Mohammed Usman told the...

SANAA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Yemen closed down on Wednesday a second newspaper that reprinted controversial caricatures of Prophet Mohammad, an official at the information ministry said. The official said the English-language Yemen Observer would be shut until further notice. The newspaper published the inflammatory cartoons last week, he added. On Monday, the ministry ordered the closure of a small...

NEW YORK: Editors across the country continue to face difficult decisions surrounding the cartoons featuring the prophet Muhammad, which have set off rioting abroad. Few American papers have published the cartoon so far, although several have shown them on their Web sites or provided Web links. Here is a look-around: * Four top editors at the New York Press, a weekly in New York City, resigned...

DUBAI, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Muslims have decried as hypocrites Western dailies which have cited free speech as the reason for printing disrespectful cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, saying the same newspapers take pains to avoid lampooning Jews. The caricatures, first published in a Danish daily in September and then reprinted across Europe, have unleashed fury among Muslims who view any portrayal...

Bloggers in the Middle East have been attempting to make sense of the furore that followed the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The following is a selection of some of the best. It is not hard to find Islamist sites in the region and beyond promoting the message that it is incumbent on Muslims to "defend God's messenger, the Prophet Mohammed" against attacks in the western media...