A French court yesterday turned down a request by Muslim groups to gag a satirical weekly which today publishes all 12 of the cartoons and a new caricature. The Muslim Council of France told the Paris civil court that the cartoons incited religious or racial hatred. The court ruled the application inadmissible on a technicality. Charlie Hebdo's director and editor-in-chief, Philippe Val, said...
Why haven't Muslims in Canada taken to the streets in large numbers to protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed? It's not because everyone in Canada is so nice to each other, say Canadian Muslim leaders and Islamic scholars. It's because Canada's multiculturalism is complex. They say Muslim immigration into Canada has been different. So has Muslim integration into Canadian society. And so...
The Danish editor behind the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that ignited deadly riots in the Muslim world said Wednesday that he was trying to coordinate with an Iranian paper soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. "My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with the Iranian newspaper, and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them," Flemming Rose said...
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo published a new cartoon of the prophet Muhammad on its cover, as a French Muslim group, in a plea for free expression, condemned the violence that Danish caricatures sparked in Muslim countries. The wave of protests, ``orchestrated four months after the facts, aims at caging all freedom of thought by artists and intellectuals,'' Tewfik...
The editorial staff of the alternative weekly New York Press walked out today, en masse, after the paper's publishers backed down from printing the Danish cartoons that have become the center of a global free-speech fight. Editor-in-Chief Harry Siegel emails, on behalf of the editorial staff: New York Press, like so many other publications, has suborned its own professed principles. For all the...
The Danish editor who published the drawings of the prophet Muhammad that have sparked worldwide protests said the furor was deliberately stoked by a group of Danish imams who toured the Middle East with a portfolio that included images never printed in his paper, among them, drawings of the prophet having sex with animals. Flemming Rose, cultural editor of the Danish paper, Jyllands-Posten, said...
The editors of two New Zealand newspapers that published controversial images of the Prophet Mohammed have apologised for the offence they caused Muslims. The apology comes after a meeting today in Wellington attended by 17 representatives of various media organisations and religious groups. It was set up by Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres. The meeting issued a statement saying freedom...
Here’s a tale of two "toons." The first comprises twelve parts. They were published on September 30 of last year in Denmark’s largest newspaper Jyllands-Posten and since then have caused an intensifying crescendo of protest across Muslim communities throughout Europe and throughout the Muslim Middle East and Asia. The second appeared in The Washington Post on January 29. The history of the first...
In a historical move, leaders of three major international organisations have deplored the violent protests following the publication of cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. The joint statement from the UN, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the EU also urged governments to guard embassies and foreigners from attacks. "We are deeply alarmed at the repercussions...
European Jews expressed a mixture of anger and frustration this week as the furor over a Muslim cartoon erupted into violence in Europe and the Middle East. As frequent targets of anti-Semitic cartoons - many of them in the Arab press - Jews on one hand sympathized with the Muslim outrage over depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, which is considered by Muslims to be blasphemous. But Jews...
