Maybe you remember, back in 1989, the controversy over Piss Christ, a piece of art by the now fashionable artist Andres Serrano. He himself had been living on a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his brave break-out work (a crucifix immersed in urine) was hung in various public museums and was debated and mostly defended by the high culture elites until it became part of the...
The Danish government was to brief parliament today on the attacks on Danish diplomatic missions during protests over a newspaper’s cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller were to meet with the Foreign Policy Committee in the afternoon. Fogh Rasmussen and Moeller then planned to hold a joint news conference. The Danish embassies...
The Danish prime minister has urged Muslims to refrain from violence, saying the Prophet Muhammad cartoon row is being exploited by extremists. "We need to resolve this issue through dialogue, not violence," Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference. He condemned the attacks on Danish embassies by Muslim protesters angered by the satirical cartoons which first appeared in a Danish newspaper....
NEW YORK A day before the Philadelphia Inquirer published one of the controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, which drew protesters to the paper, the Austin American-Statesman ran one of the images, but reportedly received reader support for its efforts. Editor Rich Oppel said he published a cartoon in last Friday's edition depicting Muhammad with a turban similar to a bomb. He said...
The Philadelphia Inquirer became the first major American newspaper to publish any of the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Saturday, prompting a small protest outside the newspaper's offices yesterday morning. About two dozen demonstrators, holding signs reading "No to Hate" and "Peaceful Protest for Religious Tolerance," dispersed after about an hour. The organizers said they would be back...
COPENHAGEN - US President George W. Bush has expressed his full support for Denmark in the ongoing controversy over the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday. Adressing a news conference, Rasmussen said both leaders had agreed on the need to resume "dialogue" and "tolerance." The premier conceded that this was not easy against the backdrop of...
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Iranian-born barber Farzan Khatami has listened to reports of the anti-Danish protests across the Muslim world this week and he is sure of one thing -- the violence has to stop soon. He was personally offended by the cartoons satirizing the Prophet Mohammad, and says he feels discrimination on the streets of Copenhagen every day. But enough is enough. "Fire and stones are...
BRUSSELS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The European Union, split over the rights and wrongs of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, urgently sought ways on Tuesday to end violent protests against European missions and citizens in Arab and Muslim states. EU president Austria said in a strongly worded statement it had instructed its embassies in the Middle East, Asia and Africa to demand increased security...
Kabul - The Taliban called on the Muslim world Tuesday to declare a holy war over the Prophet Mohammed cartoons that have appeared in publications around the globe as violent demonstrations continued around Afghanistan, a day after three people died there in protests over the caricatures. Taliban spokesman Qari Yussif Ahmadi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that particularly Danish soldiers would...
Four people were killed and 19 injured as hundreds of Afghans clashed with police and soldiers yesterday during demonstrations against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed. The worst of the violence was outside Bagram, the main US base, with Afghan police firing on some 2,000 protesters as they tried to break into the facility. Police in Mehtarlam, the eastern province of Laghman...
