The Cartoon Row

Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen initiated a media offensive in Arab media yesterday. The prime minister sought to present Denmark's point of view in the on-going dispute between Muslim countries and Denmark over daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of 12 Mohammed caricatures. 'The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and I have initiated what I would call a media offensive aimed at Arab...

These cartoons are much less offensive than what is routinely printed in every American newspaper about presidents, presidential candidates, and other pols. Yet strange as it may seem to Western non-Muslims, the rage over them seems to grow with each passing day – until the global scale of the response to it has now involved ambassadors from many countries, the United Nations, international...

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian gunmen Thursday shut down the European Union's office in Gaza City, demanding an apology for German, French and Norwegian newspapers reprinting cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammad, Palestinian security sources said. The gunmen left a notice on the EU office's door that the building would remain closed until Europeans apologize to Muslims, many of whom consider...

Rabat, Feb. 2 - The Moroccan government condemned, here Thursday, the publication by some European newspapers of offensive cartoons against prophet Muhammad (PBUH) under the fallacious pretext of defending the freedom of speech. "The caricatures harm the Prophet and are a provocation act that offend Muslims' feelings," said Moroccan government spokesman, Nabil Benabdallah. Speaking at a press...

A French newspaper has reproduced a set of Danish caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad that have caused outrage in the Muslim world. France Soir said it had published the cartoons to show that "religious dogma" had no place in a secular society. Their publication in Denmark led to protests in several Arab nations. Responding to France Soir's move, the French government said it supported...

JAKARTA - Indonesian Muslims on Thursday conveyed their anger over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper to a visiting Red Cross official from the country, reports said. Dozens of people picketed the governor's office in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar during a visit by Danish Red Cross secretary-general Jorgen Paulsen. "Please tell your country...

Amman (dpa) - The owners of Jordan's Shihan Weekly on Thursday fired the paper's editor for republishing three of the 12 Danish cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Mohammed which have triggered outrage in the Arab world and a campaign to boycott Danish products. "The Arab Printers Company which owns Shihan Weekly has decided to fire its editor Jihad Momani as of Thursday after republishing the...

AMMAN, Jordan In one of several Middle Eastern protests Thursday, a Jordanian newspaper took the bold step of publishing the Danish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad that have outraged Muslims, saying it was reprinting them to show readers "the extent of the Danish offense." The Arabic weekly Shihan ran three of the 12 cartoons, including the one that depicts Muhammad as wearing a turban shaped like...

DUBAI – "Freedom of expression is one thing, but it should not be confused with acts of inciting feelings, which is what has happened in Denmark." This was how many responded to an ongoing survey by Khaleej Times on the publication of cartoons insulting Islam as a religion. "America took objection to the way Al Jazeera was covering the Iraq war, saying such coverage was inciting anti-American...

PARIS, Feb. 1 -- Newspapers across Europe reprinted cartoons Wednesday ridiculing the prophet Muhammad, saying they wanted to support the right of Danish and Norwegian papers to publish the caricatures, which have ignited fury among Muslims throughout the world. Germany's Die Welt daily newspaper published one of the drawings on its front page and said the "right to blasphemy" is one of the...