The Cartoon Row

Isfahan/Tehran - A two-day conference titled 'Constructive Religious Dialogue - Framework for World Order' was opened Saturday in Isfahan, central Iran. The conference, attended by more than 200 religious scholars from almost 40 countries, including Iran, was organized to reach an international condemnation on the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed deemed by Muslims worldwide as...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India said on Saturday that Denmark's prime minister had put off a visit to New Delhi due next month, amid fears that the trip could provoke fresh protests by Muslims against cartoons of Prophet Mohammad. Anders Fog Rasmussen's visit was planned much before the controversy over the cartoons, first published in a Danish newspaper, erupted earlier this year, triggering a storm...

STOCKHOLM, March 17, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Danish Muslims are planning to take the publication of cartoons lampooning Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) by a Danish newspaper to the United Nations. "The UN is the natural place for us to file our complaint," Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted Qassem Said, spokesman for the Danish Islamic Community, as telling the...

STOCKHOLM, March 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Danish Islamite are to refer cartoon case to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights after Danish negative ruling of the case. The Danish Islamic Community organizations made the decision on Friday responding to the ruling, made by Danish State Attorney Henning Fode on Thursday, which said the publication of the prophet cartoons did not offend...

COPENHAGEN, March 16, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – Denmark's top prosecutor decided on Wednesday, March 15, not to press charges against the country's mass-circulation daily over commissioning and printing cartoons mocking Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him). "I have today decided not to institute criminal proceedings in the case of Jyllands-Posten's article 'The Face of Muhammad'...

Mary Cory, publisher of the Illini Media Company, and Adam Jung, vice president of the Illini Media Company board of directors and graduate student, addressed The Daily Illini staff present in the newsroom Tuesday evening around 7 p.m. concerning the employment of Acton Gorton, editor in chief. Jung announced to the staff that the board has decided to terminate Gorton immediately. "After...

Peshawar - In his office in Peshawar's historic Mohabat Khan mosque, prayer leader Maulana Yousaf Qureshi smoothes his beard from the white roots to the henna-orange tips. "There's no time limit. If someone kills the cartoonist in 50 years he will still get the million dollars," he says. In a blazing sermon on February 17, Qureshi promised the money - and a new car - to whoever assassinates any of...

Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller today received a petition with 60,000 signatures calling for reconciliation between Denmark and the Muslim world following the crisis over the Prophet Mohammed cartoons. Organisers of the campaign "Forsoning Nu," or "Reconciliation Now," urged all parties, particularly the governments of Denmark and other countries involved in the dispute, "to work together to...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Muslim preachers and scholars on Friday called for reconciliation between the West and the Islamic world following the prophet cartoon uproar but told a conference on religious dialogue the Danish government had mishandled the crisis. "We feel there are forces of extremism which are aiming to light fires and transform Denmark from a peaceful country to a country which will...

The student newspaper at the University of Saskatchewan has accepted the resignation of its editor after the paper published a cartoon showing Jesus Christ involved in a sex act with a pig. The Sheaf newspaper came under fire around the Saskatoon campus and on radio call-in shows after publishing its most recent edition. The issue contained a Capitalist Piglet cartoon that many people said was...