The Cartoon Row

On 30 September 2005 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a number of caricatures on the subject of Islam, Muslims and the Prophet Mohammed. It had solicited these as part of a competition in which cartoonists had been asked to address the supposed fear that Danes and other Europeans felt in depicting Islam critically. In response to the publication Muslims in Denmark protested against...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish police warned on Tuesday Muslim anger over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad had raised the threat of terrorist attacks on Denmark, after new figures revealed some of the economic damage. Denmark was already on alert because of its participation in the U.S.-led war in Iraq, where it has about 500 troops, though it has not yet suffered any attacks on Danish...

Tallin, April 10, Interfax - The Estonian newspaper KesKus has reprinted the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that caused protracted protests in the Muslim community in a number of countries. "We published the cartoons so that people can see what they are criticizing. My decision was immediate but we took our time because we did not want to add to the already high tensions," says an article by...

Saudi Arabia’s youth newspaper Shams has started publishing again, three weeks after being suspend by authorities for printing the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The paper’s editor-in-chief, Battal Koss, was fired as a result of the row and has been replaced by Khalaf Harby. The paper landed itself in hot water in the Kingdom after reprinting the Danish cartoons next to an article...

Borders Inc. raised book-business eyebrows Friday when the company confirmed it wouldn't stock a tiny magazine's current edition featuring the satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have enraged parts of the Muslim world. But readers in Portland eager to sift through the April-May issue of Free Inquiry shouldn't have much trouble finding other outlets for the magazine -- unless they sell...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Denmark will launch a "massive" campaign to improve its global image, which was tattered after a Danish newspaper published caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the prime minister said Friday. Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the campaign was not initiated because of the cartoon crisis but that the uproar had given it additional impetus. "We would have done so anyway. But the...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A group of 27 Danish Muslim organizations have filed a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper that first published the contentious Prophet Muhammed cartoons, their lawyer said Thursday. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday, two weeks after Denmark's top prosecutor declined to press criminal charges, saying the drawings that sparked a firestorm in the Muslim world did not...

With the McClatchy Company set to accept bids, starting as early as tomorrow, for the 12 Knight Ridder papers it is selling, some of the potential buyers are looking at the country as if it were a giant chessboard. The goal is not to topple a king but to become one – a king of each regional market where potential buyers already own newspapers and can achieve economies of scale by buying pieces of...

Swedish Foreign Minister Leila Freivalds resigned Tuesday after she was accused of lying about her role in the closing of a far-right Web site that solicited cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Meanwhile, Denmark's ambassador returned to Iran, about five weeks after violent protests over the cartoons forced the closure of the embassy in Teheran. The drawings, published in the Danish newspaper...

The Anglican Church in Wales has apologised to Muslims after printing a cartoon satirising the Prophet Muhammad in its Welsh-language magazine. The Church in Wales has issued an immediate recall of all copies of the latest edition of Y Llan - meaning Church - following the reproduction of the cartoon. The drawing, reprinted from the French daily France Soir, satirises Muhammad by depicting him...