NEW YORK As days pass, more and more newspapers are choosing to publish at least one of the Muhammad cartoons that are sparking violence abroad, after first appearing in Danish newspapers many months ago. Still, the number remains small. The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle in Cheyenne, which has a tiny Muslim population, published two of the cartoons on Tuesday, including one with a bomb coming out of the...
The Associated Press protested Wednesday the misleading inclusion of an AP photograph in a pamphlet purporting to show images offensive to Islam. The picture shows a bearded man wearing fake pig ears, a pig nose, and a pink embroidered cap on his head. He was wearing the costume while participating in a pig-squealing contest at an annual festival in a farm village in southern France last summer...
Wars often start when extremists, and extreme points of view, prevail. That's worth bearing in mind as violent clashes continue over cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. They were published more than four months ago in a Danish newspaper, but like a slow-burning fuse, radical Muslims have exploited them to ignite anti-Western violence across the Muslim world from Iran and Afghanistan to India and...
Premier Peter Beattie has strongly supported freedom of speech after a second Queensland newspaper published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. The Rockhampton Morning Bulletin today joined Brisbane's Courier-Mail in publishing one of 12 cartoons first printed in Denmark and which have sparked a violent backlash across the Muslim world. Any depiction of Mohammed is considered blasphemous and...
Suspected Muslim hackers have broken into around 600 Danish websites to post threats and protest against satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, an Internet monitoring group said on Wednesday. If pages outside Denmark, where the cartoons first appeared, were included, then the hack attacks numbered around 1,000, the Zone-H Web site, www.zone-h.org, said. Zone-H tracks attacks on websites and...
Jerry Ceppos' op-ed article Tuesday (``We must see cartoons to understand furor'') poses interesting questions about why U.S. newspapers have not shown the offensive Danish cartoons. As a Muslim American, I suggest a number of good reasons why U.S. newspapers refrained from reprinting the cartoons. Reprinting them would spread further the xenophobic, anti-Muslim feelings now prevalent in much of...
Tolerance of the aggressively intolerant must have its limits. Fanatics who threaten those who disagree with them with massacres and beheadings have crossed that line. Yet the British police have failed to act against demonstrators who did just that last weekend. Contemporary Britain swallows camels and strains at gnats: it criminalises the expression of prejudice, but balks at prosecuting...
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 7 -- The global furor over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad can be traced to one day last September when newspaper editor Flemming Rose smelled a good story. He said he'd read that museums in Sweden and London had recently removed artworks their staff deemed offensive to Muslims. A Danish comedian told him that he felt free to desecrate the Bible but that he'd be afraid to do the...
COPENHAGEN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The Danish newspaper that first published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, infuriating Muslims worldwide, previously turned down cartoons of Jesus as too offensive, the cartoonist said on Wednesday. The newspaper's editor said the Jesus cartoon was unsolicited. He added that he hoped to publish Holocaust-themed cartoons that an Iran newspaper has solicited as a...
PREMIER Peter Beattie has strongly supported freedom of speech after a second Queensland newspaper published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. The Rockhampton Morning Bulletin today joined Brisbane's Courier-Mail in publishing one of 12 cartoons first printed in Denmark and which have sparked a violent backlash across the Muslim world. Any depiction of Mohammed is considered blasphemous and...
