The Cartoon Row

Building a mosque in Copenhagen would help to relieve tensions between Denmark and the Muslim world, says Herbert Pundik, a former editor of daily newspaper Politiken. The country's 200,000 Muslims currently are relegated to some 50 makeshift mosques throughout the country. Pundik suggested that construction of a permanent mosque could serve as an olive branch to Muslims angered by drawings of the...

Twelve drawings of Muhammad printed in a major Danish newspaper have turned millions of Muslims against Denmark. And one man's mission has transformed the caricatures into the stuff of international diplomacy. The Arab world, though, isn't being given the full story. It was just twelve simple drawing published in a Danish newspaper. But they have triggered an international relations crisis for...

The Americans may call them surrender-monkeys, but the French can sometimes teach the world something about pluck -- or maybe foolhardiness. France Soir has just courted big trouble by printing across two pages all 12 of the Danish newspaper cartoons that have caused such a furore in the Muslim world. For good measure, they ran their own cartoon across the front page, featuring not just the...

A fatwa, or legal Islamic ruling, appears to have been issued against Danish soldiers stationed in Iraq, the Danish defence ministry said on Tuesday. "I can confirm that we've heard about the fatwa from a reliable source in Iraq ... so we believe it's true," Defence Minister Soeren Gade's spokesman Jacob Winther told AFP. The report came amid rising Muslim anger over 12 cartoons published in...

Denmark and Norway on Tuesday tried to curb the damage caused by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper, while Arab interior ministers called on Denmark to "firmly sanction" the authors of the caricatures. A Norwegian magazine which reprinted the caricatures said Tuesday it "regretted" offending Muslims but stopped short of issuing an apology, a day after the editor of...

BERLIN -- An apology by Denmark's largest newspaper for depicting the Prophet Mohammed in political cartoons failed yesterday to calm a controversy that has ignited fiery protests across the Islamic world and provoked death threats against Scandinavians by Muslim radical groups. Muslim political and religious leaders and jihadists added their voices to the fury already thundering from mosques and...

THE Danish editor who brought the fury of the Muslim world on his country by printing pictures of the Prophet Muhammad defiantly declared yesterday: "We do not apologise for printing the cartoons. It was our right to do so." As protests continued for a second day in Gaza with shouts of "Death to Denmark", Flemming Rose, the culture editor of the centre-right daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sat in...

A French newspaper has reproduced a controversial set of caricatures, originally published in Denmark and decried in the Muslim world as blasphemous to the prophet Mohammed. The Paris daily France Soir, on Wednesday, printed the dozen cartoons, explaining that it chose to do so to illustrate the polemic sparked by their original publication, in the Danish Jyllands-Posten paper last September...

A leading Danish newspaper has apologised for the offence caused by its controversial publication of a series of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that provoked protests across the Middle East, while defending its right to commission and print them in the first place. Carsten Juste, editor-in-chief of the daily Jyllands-Posten admitted that the 12 cartoons, one of which depicted the Prophet...

A Internet statement purportedly from an insurgent group in Iraq urged militants on Tuesday to attack targets in Denmark and Norway, the first known call for violent reprisals over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. "We call on all our brigades in Mujahedeen Army to hit any targets they can in these two countries, and any other country that does the same thing," the...