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Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
A court in Denmark has rejected a lawsuit against the newspaper that printed the infamous Mohammed cartoons a few years ago. A Danish appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit against the newspaper that first printed the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons in 2005, saying they were not intended to insult Muslims. The Western High Court said it was not proven that Jyllands-Posten's...
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Not Ready for my Burqua (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
A lawsuit filed in Danish court by more than 20 Islamic organizations against the publishers of the 2005 Mohammed cartoons has been dismissed. Via Times Online : The City Court in Aarhus today rejected a lawsuit brought by seven Danish Muslim groups claiming that the 12 drawings printed in Jyllands-Posten were intended to insult the prophet and make a mockery of Islam. While the cartoons...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Although the newspaper is framing it somewhat differently : The Adresseavisen, published in Trondheim, on Tuesday ran a cartoon of a man with a bomb-belt around his waist and a T-shirt emblazoned with the text " I am Mohammed and no one dares to publish me ." Managing editor Arne Blix said the cartoon did not depict the prophet "but was a comment on events in Islamabad," referring...
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Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
As idiotic as it may sound. Copenhagen, 3 June ( AKI ) - A Jordanian organisation wants to prosecute the Danes responsible for the publication of cartoons considered blasphemous to the Islamic Prophet Mohammed. According to Danish media reports, 11 Danes have been summoned to appear before the Jordanian public prosecutor to answer charges of blasphemy and threatening the national peace....
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Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the suicide bombing of the Danish embassy in Islamabad on 2 June, which has been claimed by a branch of Al Qaeda in an online message purportedly posted by the terrorist organisation. The bombing, which killed eight people and wounded about 30 others, was a reprisal for the Mohammed cartoons published in Denmark, the message said.“It is understandable...
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E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
As a part of the 14th World editors forum, Press freedom Round table representatives from magazines and news papers from Europe and northern Africa discussed how media react when it comes to the publication of the controversial Mohammed cartoons. Philippe...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
One of the Mohammed cartoons that sparked riots last year throughout the Muslim world A car bombing of the Danish Embassy in Islamabad Pakistan is being linked to protests against the Mohammed Cartoons which rocked the world again earlier this year. A huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday, killing [...]
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American Congress for Truth (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
comment by Jerry Gordon In a post about a Dutch prosecutor dismissing a case against courageous Parliamentarian Geert Wilders who produced the anti-Islam film, ‘Fitna’, he remarked that they should send the dismissal to a Jordanian court that had issued a warrant for Wilders and the editors of major Danish papers who published those controversial Mohammed [...]
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Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Al-Qaeda threatens with more attacks against anybody who had dared publish the Mohammed cartoons. Meanwhile, though Adresseavisen claims that it did not publish a Mohammed cartoon, Norwegian Muslims are saying that they feel insulted ( Norwegian ). The story about the new insulting Norwegian Mohammed cartoon appeared on various Arabic news sites, including...
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Little Green Footballs (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Following the bombing outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan’s ambassador to Denmark says to the people of Denmark, “ Now are you satisfied? ” Fauzia Mufti Abbas, Pakistan’s ambassador to Denmark, agreed that the Mohammed cartoons, first published in Jyllands-Posten newspaper in October 2005, had incited Muslim anger and were possibly the motivation for the attack, which killed...
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Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
And several others for crimes of blasphemy over those infamous Mohammed cartoons. A newspaper out of Abu Dhabi reports on the indictment: Jordan's general prosecutor is expected to issue a verdict within days in a defamation case brought by a coalition of media outlets against the editors of Danish newspapers who reprinted cartoons that lampooned the Prophet Mohammed and...
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The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
A Jordanian court is holding an in-absentia trial on 10 Danish editors and one cartoonists who published the Mohammed cartoons under a 2006 Jordanian law called the Jordanian Justice Act that allows Jordanian officials “to prosecute crimes committed outside the country if it affected the people of Jordan by electronic means.” The public prosecutors will [...]
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Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Our Danish correspondent TB reports that a Norwegian newspaper has printed its own Mohammed cartoon in solidarity with the Danes: The text on the t-shirt says: “I am Mohammed — and nobody dares to print me”. - - - - - - - - - I placed the red “X” in a judicious location to preserve Gates of Vienna’s coveted PG-13 rating. Refer to the article at adressa.no for the original uncensored...
