Muslim Cartoon News Roundup: Fri. 10 Feb. Midday
INTERNATIONAL
COMMENTLINE
For your perusal, the latest tensions sparked by the Muhammad cartoons. In this post:
Divisions between Western and Middle Eastern cultures widen.
Danish leader says Iran, Syria using cartoon protests to hide own problems.
NATO digs into the sand.
Anger over cartoons still grows (though not so much in the press).
Web site in Sweden shut after concerns over a Muhammad drawing contest.
Political cartoonists feel the tension.
Observations from around the world.
NEWSLINES
On Thursday, Malaysia's prime minister Abdullah Badawi shut indefinitely a Borneo-based paper, the Sarawak Tribune, for reprinting the cartoons.
"We demand stiff penalties without leniency against those who deride the Prophet Mohammad," Abdel-Rahman al-Sudeis, a prominent Saudi Arabian cleric in Islam's holiest city of Mecca, told worshippers. "With one voice, millions of Muslims around the world are defending the Prophet of God."
NEWSBYTES
Islam-West divide 'grows deeper'
(BBC) -- Malaysia's prime minister says a huge chasm has opened between the West and Islam, fuelled by Muslim frustrations over Western foreign policy.
Malaysia bans Prophet cartoons as protests flare
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -- Malaysia slapped a blanket ban on circulating or possessing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad as angry protests still flared up across the world.
Danish Premier Faults Iran, Syria
Governments Using Cartoon Controversy as 'Distraction' From Their Own Crises, He Says
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 9 (washingtonpost.com) -- Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark said Thursday that the governments of Iran and Syria had intentionally inflamed Muslim protests against a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad to distract attention from their own diplomatic crises.
NATO Seeks Closer Ties With Mideast
NATO Ministers Seek Closer Ties With Middle East in Effort to Calm Tension Over Muhammad Cartoons
TAORMINA, Sicily Feb 10, 2006 (AP) -- NATO defense ministers on Friday were seeking to calm Islamic anger over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons at their first meeting with counterparts from Israel and six Arab nations.
Cartoon anger unabated
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police opened fire at hundreds demonstrating against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Friday, wounding at least one person, as protests across the Muslim world showed no sign of abating.
Cartoon row: Swedish website shut
(Aljazeera.Net) -- A Swedish Internet provider has shut down the website of an extreme right fringe party after authorities voiced concerns over a Prophet Muhammad drawing contest posted on the site, Swedish security police say.
Used to hurling barbs, cartoonists uneasy under fire
LONDON (Reuters) -- Imagine you are a political cartoonist, colleagues are receiving death threats and sparking riots around the globe. Now: draw something clever about it.
A global view on cartoons debate
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Muslim dress, school code clash in Britain
(USA Today) -- Britain's highest civil court is deciding whether a Muslim girl's rights were violated when she was barred from school for wearing a traditional dress.
Image Digest: Muslim Cartoon Protests
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Tags: France, terrorism, Middle East, Iraq, Iran, Hamas, Palestine, Denmark, Cartoons, Arab, Islam, Photography, photo, photos, pictures, Muhammad, prophet, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Norway, Poland, Bulgaria, Afghanistan, Croatia, Egypt, Syria, Bosnia, South Africa, Malaysia, India, Kenya
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COMMENTLINEFor your perusal, the latest tensions sparked by the Muhammad cartoons. In this post:
Divisions between Western and Middle Eastern cultures widen.
Danish leader says Iran, Syria using cartoon protests to hide own problems.
NATO digs into the sand.
Anger over cartoons still grows (though not so much in the press).
Web site in Sweden shut after concerns over a Muhammad drawing contest.
Political cartoonists feel the tension.
Observations from around the world.
NEWSLINES
On Thursday, Malaysia's prime minister Abdullah Badawi shut indefinitely a Borneo-based paper, the Sarawak Tribune, for reprinting the cartoons.
"We demand stiff penalties without leniency against those who deride the Prophet Mohammad," Abdel-Rahman al-Sudeis, a prominent Saudi Arabian cleric in Islam's holiest city of Mecca, told worshippers. "With one voice, millions of Muslims around the world are defending the Prophet of God."
NEWSBYTES
Islam-West divide 'grows deeper'
(BBC) -- Malaysia's prime minister says a huge chasm has opened between the West and Islam, fuelled by Muslim frustrations over Western foreign policy.
Malaysia bans Prophet cartoons as protests flare
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -- Malaysia slapped a blanket ban on circulating or possessing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad as angry protests still flared up across the world.
Danish Premier Faults Iran, Syria
Governments Using Cartoon Controversy as 'Distraction' From Their Own Crises, He Says
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 9 (washingtonpost.com) -- Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark said Thursday that the governments of Iran and Syria had intentionally inflamed Muslim protests against a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad to distract attention from their own diplomatic crises.
NATO Seeks Closer Ties With Mideast
NATO Ministers Seek Closer Ties With Middle East in Effort to Calm Tension Over Muhammad Cartoons
TAORMINA, Sicily Feb 10, 2006 (AP) -- NATO defense ministers on Friday were seeking to calm Islamic anger over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons at their first meeting with counterparts from Israel and six Arab nations.
Cartoon anger unabated
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police opened fire at hundreds demonstrating against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Friday, wounding at least one person, as protests across the Muslim world showed no sign of abating.
Cartoon row: Swedish website shut
(Aljazeera.Net) -- A Swedish Internet provider has shut down the website of an extreme right fringe party after authorities voiced concerns over a Prophet Muhammad drawing contest posted on the site, Swedish security police say.
Used to hurling barbs, cartoonists uneasy under fire
LONDON (Reuters) -- Imagine you are a political cartoonist, colleagues are receiving death threats and sparking riots around the globe. Now: draw something clever about it.
A global view on cartoons debate
ALSO SEE
Muslim dress, school code clash in Britain
(USA Today) -- Britain's highest civil court is deciding whether a Muslim girl's rights were violated when she was barred from school for wearing a traditional dress.
Image Digest: Muslim Cartoon Protests
RELATED
Jyllands Posten Cartoons
Muhammad Cartoon Gallery
More News Images on THE TENSION
NOTE: Mouseover pictures for captions.
NOTE: All rights are reserved by image owners; site content is linked only.
Tags: France, terrorism, Middle East, Iraq, Iran, Hamas, Palestine, Denmark, Cartoons, Arab, Islam, Photography, photo, photos, pictures, Muhammad, prophet, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Norway, Poland, Bulgaria, Afghanistan, Croatia, Egypt, Syria, Bosnia, South Africa, Malaysia, India, Kenya
Global Tags: Washington DC, News and Politics, News, Politics, Current Events, Current Affairs, Life, Culture, Tension
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