Muslim Cartoon News Roundup: Wed. 22 Feb.

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In Nigeria, new rioting kills dozens, forces thousands from their homes.

The Times explores the lack of Muslim outrage at the violence sparked by the cartoons.

Yet another cartoon fires up Malaysian Muslims.

More on Tuesday's protests in Iraq, Pakistan.

NEWSLINE
A Reuters eyewitness saw at least 20 bodies, some burned and others with their stomachs cut open, in Onitsha as thousands of youths brandishing cutlasses and sticks ran through the streets chanting slogans and harassing passers-by.

NEWSBYTES
Nigeria riots leave dozens dead
ABUJA (Reuters) -- Security forces guarded religious buildings and patrolled streets in several Nigerian cities on Wednesday after violence rooted in rising political tensions killed dozens of people and forced thousands from their homes.

At least 20 dead in new Nigerian religious riot
ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) -- At least 20 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in the eastern Nigerian city of Onitsha on Wednesday by Christians taking revenge for the killing of Christians in northern Nigeria at the weekend.

Furor Over Cartoons Pits Muslim Against Muslim
AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 21 (NYT) -- In a direct challenge to the international uproar over cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad, the Jordanian journalist Jihad Momani wrote: "What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras, or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony?"

Another cartoon incurs Malaysian Muslims' ire
(Kyodo) -- Another cartoon has created a minor storm in Malaysia with several Muslim groups calling for action to be taken against a mainstream newspaper that published it.

Pakistanis, Iraqis Protest Cartoons
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Thousands chanted slogans and burned Danish flags in Pakistan and Iraq to protest cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on Tuesday, while the second Russian newspaper in a week shut down after publishing the images that have angered Muslims worldwide. Witness accounts,...

ALSO SEE
Nigerian press on oil workers` abduction, cartoon riots
Lagos, Nigeria, 02/21(AngolaPress) -- The twin crises facing Nigeria - the cartoon riots which claimed at least 16 lives in the northern city of Maiduguri and the abduction of nine foreign oil workers by militants in the oil- producing Niger Delta region -- at the weekend have dominated local editorials on Monday.

The Islamic States of America
(CNN) -- The year is 2040. The aircraft carrier Osama bin Laden is anchored just off Seattle. The Super Bowl is being played at Khomeini Stadium.

Cartoon controversy continues in Calgary
(Canadian Jewish News)

Cartoon protests enter virtual world
(Press Trust of India)

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