The Cartoon Row

Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has blinked finally. With Denmark standing in the danger of its trade ties with Muslim countries, particularly those in the Middle East, breaking down, the daily has tendered a virtual apology to the citizens of Saudi Arabia for 'erroneously publishing the cartoons that are offensive to the Prophet'. FIRED UP: Members of Palestinian militant group Popular...

BASRA, Iraq – A roadside bomb targeted a joint Danish-Iraqi military patrol near the southern city of Basra on Monday _ the first attack on Danish troops since protests against a Danish newspaper for publishing widely criticized caricatures of Islam's prophet. There were no casualties in the attack, which occurred as the troops crossed a bridge in a rural area about 60 miles north of Basra, Iraq's...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Jan 30, 2006 – Masked gunmen on Monday briefly took over a European Union office to protest a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the latest in a wave of violent denunciations of the caricatures across the Islamic world. The gunmen demanded an apology from Denmark and Norway, and said citizens of the two countries would be...

Can we finally admit that Muslims have blown out of all proportion their outrage over 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper last September? In the latest twist, last week both the Organization for the Islamic Conference and the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned a Norwegian newspaper for reprinting the drawings - a decision the publication defended as...

COPENHAGEN - When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, including one in which he is shown wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse, it expected a strong reaction in this country of 5.4 million people. But the paper was unprepared for the global furor that ensued, including demonstrations in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, death...

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen replied to harsh criticisms derived from his supportive attitude to the insulting cartoons that the newspaper Jyllands Posten published about the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). Rasmussen, despite criticisms and calls, repeated he will not meet with the ambassadors of 11 Muslim countries, including Turkey, in Copenhagen. The ambassadors asked for an appointment...

Last September, Danish author Kåre Bluitgen was set to publish a book on the Muslim prophet Muhammad, but couldn't find an illustrator. Artistic representations of the human form are forbidden in Islam -- so three artists turned down Bluitgen's offer to illustrate the book, fearing they would pay with their lives for doing so. The largest newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, in turn asked for...

When Carsten Juste decided to publish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in Jyllands-Posten in September, he could not have imagined the fallout that would drag on almost to the year-end. A Pakistani fundamentalist party has announced a bounty for murdering the Danish cartoonists. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) made an issue of it at its recent summit. Srinagar downed shutters...

Srinagar : Shops and establishments in most parts of Kashmir Valley were closed Thursday to protest a Danish newspaper publishing a caricature of the Prophet and the alleged desecration of the Quran in Sopore town. The strike call was given by the separatist Hurriyat Conference group led by Syed Ali Geelani. The Kashmir bar association and other groups supported the shutdown. Authorities have made...

The country which shows the maximum respect for press freedom is now under threat from Islamic fundamentalists. Death threats have been made against two cartoonists ? whose names are being withheld for security reasons ? after 12 cartoons of Mohammed appeared in the conservative daily Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen. NOT FUNNY: The newspaper has hired security staff to protect the journalists after...