It’s astonishing that the liberal intelligentsia in this country, which saturates us with its opinions on all topics that catch their fancy, have so little to say on what’s going on in Europe for the last few weeks. I refer of course to what is being called the Cartoon Controversy. Unfortunately, the issue is not funny at all. Now the 'protests' are spreading to India - in J&K and New Delhi...
Patna: Muslims Monday burnt copies of the Times of India here to protest the publication of caricatures of Prophet Mohammad in the local edition of the newspaper. Hundreds of Muslims, most of them youths, shouted slogans and demanded dismissal of the editor-in-chief of the Times of India for publishing the cartoons of the prophet that were originally carried by a Danish newspaper. Raj Kumar...
Scores of Muslims burnt copies of The Times of India in Patna on Monday, protesting against the reproduction of images of Prophet Mohammad that had first appeared in a Danish publication in September 2005. The protestors shouted slogans against the newspaper and demanded the editor's dismissal. Traffic was disrupted in the city's busy Ashok Rajpath area. The Patna edition of the Times of India...
In Aarhus, Denmark, an editor says the societal debate unleashed by his paper's controversial decision to publish political cartoons of the prophet Muhammad has justified his move. In the town, many residents are standing behind Jyllands-Posten. The call came at five o'clock in the evening. A man warned the receptionist in English: There's a bomb in the building and it's going to go off in 10...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch politician forced to go into hiding after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, responds to the Danish cartoon scandal, arguing that if Europe doesn't stand up to extremists, a culture of self-censorship of criticism of Islam that pervades in Holland will spread in Europe. Auf Wiedersehen, free speech. SPIEGEL: Hirsi Ali, you have called the Prophet Muhammad a tyrant...
MOGADISHU, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A 14-year-old boy was shot dead when a protest against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad turned violent in northeastern Somalia on Monday, residents and hospital sources said. They said police intervened after demonstrators started hurling stones at offices of international aid groups in the town of Bosaso, which lies in the semi-autonomous...
All of this heat about the Danish cartoons is shedding no light on the important questions of free speech, genuine tolerance, multiculturalism and society today. The row over the cartoons of Muhammad is itself a cartoon caricature of a political debate. Worse, it is a kiddie-cartoon, with the childish raspberry that those anti-Islamic daubs represent being met by an infantile tantrum of protests...
Unflattering, some say offensive or sacrilegious, newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad are casting the spotlight on the battle between free speech and religious beliefs. The conflict is focused on Europe, where the cartoons - and the 300-year-old concept of a free press - originated, and where large Muslim populations make the drawings particularly divisive. Newspapers elsewhere, from North...
Feb 6, 2006 – KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian newspaper editor has quit after he embarrassed his Muslim boss by reprinting controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a bid to illustrate a story about worldwide fury over the caricatures. The Sarawak Tribune reprinted the cartoons in its Saturday edition after its editor-on-duty made an "oversight" in looking to illustrate the...
The Fiji Daily Post has defended the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed which have caused a storm of protest across Europe, the Middle East and now in Fiji. The cartoons by various Danish artists depicting Islam's holiest prophet was originally published in September by the daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The Fiji Daily Post reprinted the cartoons in its Sunday Post edition of...
