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NEWS ABOUT: Danish Mohammed cartoons

Danish Mohammed cartoons stories: 20 news summaries

 Terror Suspects 
 in Chicago 
 Linked to 
 Mumbai 

Men's trail leads to Pakistan, Bollywood

Nov 19, 09 3:50 AM CST
(Newser) - A pair of Chicago-based men busted last month in a plot to kill the Danish Mohammed cartoonist are now suspected of helping plot the Mumbai attacks last year. Suspect David Headley—who changed his name from Daood Gilani to make border crossings easier, according to the FBI—is believed to... More »

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terror plots • Mumbai • Danish Mohammed cartoons • Lashkar-e-Taiba • Mumbai attacks • David Coleman Headley

Chicago Men Busted
in Danish Terror Plot

Pair accused of plot to attack paper that printed Mohammed cartoons

Oct 28, 09 6:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two Chicago men have been charged with conspiring to attack the Danish newspaper that enraged many Muslims by printing cartoons of Mohammed in 2005. Suspect Daniel Coleman Headley, a US citizen who grew up in Pakistan, has "very extensive contacts with leading militant extremists in Pakistan," an official... More »

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Iraq • terror plots • Denmark • Danish Mohammed cartoons • al-Qaeda • Kurt Westergaard • Jyllands-Posten

 Yale Slammed for 
 Censoring Cartoons 

Danish cartoons yanked from prof's book to 'avoid violence'

Sep 8, 09 7:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Criticism is continuing to mount against Yale University, even from its own professors and alumni, for publishing The Cartoons That Shook the World—while censoring the cartoons that shook the world, reports AP. Yale University Press yanked the Danish caricatures from a book about the protests they spawned out of... More »

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Yale University • censorship • protests • publishing • cartoon • Danish Mohammed cartoons

OPINION

Yale Sides With Dictators by Censoring Cartoons

Muhammad decision
is short-sighted

Aug 29, 09 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yale University has “handed a victory to extremists” by deciding to pull images of the prophet Muhammad from its upcoming book on the Danish cartoon controversy, writes Mona Eltahawy in the Washington Post. Eltahawy is a Muslim living in Denmark, and she knows full well that the cartoons... More »

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Islam • Yale University • censorship • cartoon • Muhammad • Danish Mohammed cartoons

Controversial Muhammad Cartoon Goes on Sale

Some copies are signed by artists in hiding

Apr 8, 09 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Three years after political cartoons of the prophet Muhammad sparked violent riots in Muslim countries, the Denmark Free Press Society is selling prints of the controversial art. Some of the 1,000 copies, priced at $250 each, are signed by the artist, who remains in hiding due to death threats,... More »

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Islam • free speech • Muslims • censorship • religion • Denmark • riots • Danish Mohammed cartoons • Denmark Free Press Society

Despite Cartoon Flap,
Danish PM to Head NATO

Turkey shoots down Danish candidate

Apr 4, 09 10:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - NATO named Anders Fogh Rasmussen as its new secretary-general today, overcoming a contentious stalemate with Turkey, the AP reports. Turkey had strongly opposed the Danish prime minister because he’d supported the newspapers that printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005. Turkey argued that Rasmussen’s selection wouldn’t... More »

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Turkey • NATO • free speech • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • Denmark • Danish Mohammed cartoons • NATO Secretary-General

Turkey Opposes US Choice for NATO Chief

Mohammed cartoon row may lead them
to block Danish PM

Apr 3, 09 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Among the tasks facing NATO leaders this weekend is the selection of a new secretary-general for the 28-member alliance. The leading candidate is Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, who has the support of the US and other major powers. But today Turkey opposed his candidacy, the Telegraph reports,... More »

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Barack Obama • Islam • Turkey • NATO • Muslims • Anders Fogh Rasmussen • Danish Mohammed cartoons • NATO summit

OPINION

Fatwa Against Rushdie Set Off Self-Censorship

Edict brought Muslim
culture war to the
West: Hitchens

Jan 5, 09 4:27 PM CST
(Newser) - When Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens knew what it meant: "This was not just a warning of what was to come,” he writes in Vanity Fair, “it was the warning.” A global culture war, between Muslim fundamentalists and... More »

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Iran • Islam • Christopher Hitchens • censorship • religion • Salman Rushdie • Satanic Verses • fundamentalism • fatwa • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Danish Mohammed cartoons • culture wars

OPINION

Only Pakistanis Can Stop
the Violence: Friedman

Friedman: Where is the outrage over Mumbai?

Dec 3, 08 7:59 AM CST
(Newser) - In 2006, thousands of Pakistanis took to the streets in weeks of protests against Danish cartoons that satirized the Prophet Muhammad. Yet after 173 people were shot dead in Mumbai, apparently by Pakistani killers, the response in the streets was silence. If Pakistan is to become a viable state, writes... More »

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Islam • terrorism • Pakistan • India • Mumbai • Danish Mohammed cartoons • terrorist attack • political protest

 Danish Embassy
 Bomb Kills 8 in Pakistan 

Strike could be linked to flap over Muhammad cartoons

Jun 2, 08 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen wounded when a car bomb exploded outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad today, reports the BBC. At least one embassy worker was among the dead, but no Danish nationals. The attack may be linked to a series of threats... More »

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terrorism • Pakistan • Islamabad • car bomb • Danish Mohammed cartoons • al-Qaeda • Ayman al-Zawahiri • Danish embassy

Host Blocks Anti-Koran Film's Website

US provider says flick may violate policy; filmmaker unfazed

Mar 24, 08 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amid public outrage, a right-wing Dutch lawmaker has run into a new problem in his relentless quest to market his anti-Koran film: His US-based network provider has suspended service, AP reports. Network Solutions pulled the plug on Geert Wilders, who insists his 15-minute film will expose Islam's holy book as... More »

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Islam • Muslims • Muslim • Koran • Islamist • Geert Wilders • Danish Mohammed cartoons • Network Solutions • Prophet Muhammad • network provider

 Afghans Protest Cartoons, Film 

Angry crowds chant death to Danish, Dutch

Mar 22, 08 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of Afghan protesters burned Dutch and Danish flags yesterday in a protest against a Danish cartoon and a Dutch film said to insult Islam. They called for the Dutch and Danish embassies to be closed and for their troops serving with NATO in the country to be expelled, Reuters... More »

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Afghanistan • Islam • NATO • Netherlands • protests • Denmark • Geert Wilders • Danish Mohammed cartoons

Dutch Pol Makes Waves With Unseen Film

Western, Islamic officials fear violence over anti-Koran piece

Mar 20, 08 1:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - An unruly Dutch politician for months has had civil and religious leaders in a tizzy over a movie no one has seen—and which might not even exist, Der Spiegel reports. But by the end of March, provocateur Geert Wilders says he intends to release a movie exposing “the... More »

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Iran • Islam • Syria • European Union • Netherlands • Koran • Geert Wilders • Danish Mohammed cartoons

  Bin Laden Threatens Europe 

He says cartoons of Muhammad part of crusade against Islam

Mar 19, 08 8:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden threatened Europe today with "severe" retaliation over the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, the AP reports. The audio recording of bin Laden surfaced on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, though he made no mention of it, and a day before the Muslim... More »

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Islam • European Union • publishing • editorial cartoons • Osama bin Laden • Islamic extremism • freedom of press • religious conflict • Danish Mohammed cartoons • Iraq war

Mohammed Cartoon Goes on the Market

Artist, in hiding, calls
drawing  'a symbol of freedom of expression'

Mar 1, 08 9:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Kurt Westergaard, the artist behind the most controversial of the Danish cartoons that sparked fierce Muslim protest in 2005, is looking to sell his drawing. The sketch of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban has sent Westergaard into hiding, under police protection, and potential buyers may be scared off... More »

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protests • editorial cartoons • Mohammed • Denmark • turbans • Danish Mohammed cartoons • Kurt Westergaard

Muhammad Cartoon Artist Now Homeless

Dane deemed 'too much of a security risk' for police protection

Feb 20, 08 11:11 AM CST
(Newser) - A Danish cartoonist who enraged the Muslim world in 2005 with his depiction of the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban is now homeless, Der Spiegel reports. Kurt Westergaard, 73, has been thrown out of his police-protected hotel room—where he was sent when authorities uncovered a plot... More »

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Islam • homeless • cartoon • Denmark • cartoonist • Islamic radicals • Danish Mohammed cartoons • Kurt Westergaard • Jyllands-Posten • Flemming Rose

3 Danish Papers Reprint Cartoon of Muhammad

After arrests, country's leading dailies stand behind artist

Feb 13, 08 6:10 AM CST
(Newser) - After yesterday's arrest of three men allegedly plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist, the country's three largest newspapers all reprinted the offending cartoon, Bloomberg reports. Kurt Westergaard's controversial depiction of the prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb in his turban was originally printed in 2005 by Jyllands-Posten, which reproduced it again... More »

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Islam • newspaper • cartoon • Denmark • cartoonist • Danish Mohammed cartoons

Bust in Terror Plot to Kill Danish Cartoonist

Danish secret services make midnight arrests

Feb 12, 08 7:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Danish police this morning arrested several people suspected of plotting to assassinate a cartoonist who had offended Muslims with a cartoon insulting the prophet Mohammed. The newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published a set of controversial cartoons in 2005, said the attempt was against one of 12 illustrators, Kurt Westergaard, who drew... More »

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terrorism • terror plots • cartoon • Denmark • cartoonist • assassination attempt • Danish Mohammed cartoons

Danish Museum Pursuing Provocative Islam Cartoons

Drawings that lit 2006 riots not for display

Jan 30, 08 8:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Denmark's Royal Library says it wants to acquire the cartoons of Muslim prophet Mohammed that sparked international protests and violence in 2006, Der Spiegel reports. The library wants to preserve the drawings but won't likely display them in the foreseeable future for fear of stoking controversy. The Danish prime minister... More »

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Denmark • Danish Mohammed cartoons • Royal Library of Denmark

Al-Qaeda Puts Price on Head
of Cartoonist

$100,000 for murder
of Swede who drew offensive image

Sep 16, 07 5:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - An al-Qaeda affiliate is offering a reward to slaughter a Swedish cartoonist who drew an image offensive to Muslims. In an online statement, Islamic State in Iraq offered $100,000 for Lars Vilks' murder and $50,000 for that of the newspaper editor who published the cartoon. The reward escalated... More »

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Islam • Islamic State of Iraq • Muslims • cartoon • Mohammed • Sweden • Islamist extremists • cartoonist • Nerikes Allehanda • Lars Vilks • Danish Mohammed cartoons • al-Qaeda

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