PARIS -- A French newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad evacuated its offices after receiving a threatening call. Police say the caller threatened to blow himself up at the offices of France Soir in a Paris suburb (Aubervilliers). Police sent a team with sniffer dogs. About 60 employees evacuated the building but were able to go back in two hours later. Anti-terrorism police...
COPENHAGEN (AFX) - Danish daily newspaper, Jyllands-Posten is talking to Danish Muslim representatives about a joint declaration, news agency Ritzaus Bureau reported, citing Carsten Juste, chief editor at Jyllands-Posten. Juste has agreed to a proposal for talks by Ahmed Akkari, spokesman for 27 Danish Muslim organizations, to help calm worldwide tensions over the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed...
Iran’s biggest-selling newspaper has waded into the Muhammad controversy by launching a competition to find the 12 "best" cartoons about the Holocaust. Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor for Tehran's Hamshahri newspaper, said that the deliberately inflammatory contest would test out how committed Europeans were to the concept freedom of expression. "The Western papers printed these sacrilegious...
Iran's biggest-selling newspaper has chosen to tackle the West's ideals of "freedom of expression" by launching a competition to find the 12 "best" cartoons about the Holocaust, the Associated French Press reported on Monday. Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor for Tehran's Hamshahri newspaper, said that the deliberately inflammatory contest would test out how committed Europeans were to the concept...
The Jerusalem Post today became the first Israeli newspaper to publish the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad that have sparked furore across the Muslim world. A facsimile of the original page from the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten, in which all twelve cartoons were published, on September 30, is featured in today's edition of the paper. The image is one column wide and...
ALGIERS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Two thousand Algerian Islamists staged a sit-in protest on Monday against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, a rare demonstration in a country still traumatised by a decade-long civil war. "Mohammad's army will be back," demonstrators chanted repeatedly during the 2-1/2 hour protest in a gymnasium in the centre of the capital, Algiers. Protesters burnt Danish and U.S...
Muslim demonstrators clashed with security forces who fired live rounds and tear gas to break up violent protests in several Asian countries on Monday against the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Two demonstrators were shot to death and three other people, including two police officials, were injured in the central Afghan city of Mihtarlam, when police reportedly fired on...
PETALING JAYA: A Sarawak newspaper is in trouble for reproducing a controversial cartoon that insulted Islam, which has sparked condemnation and massive protests in the Muslim world. The Sarawak Tribune's editor-on-duty Lester Melanyi has resigned after a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist appeared on Page 12 of the paper on Saturday. The Tribune published a "notification" on...
CAIRO, February 6, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) Romanian Muslims are fighting the Danish cartoons that mocked Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in their own way, launching a campaign to get the Romanians acquainted with the merits of the prophet of Islam and his noble characteristics. "Romanian Muslims will distribute nationwide thousands of pamphlets and handouts among the Romanians on the life of Prophet...
Confused by the wave of protests, threats, boycotts, and attacks against diplomatic facilities that have shaken their idyllic tranquility after the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed on Jyllands-Posten, the Danes are asking themselves questions. They wonder if an attack will take place in their country, as threatened by various jihadi groups, and if freedom of speech is in...
