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Topic: Muhammad cartoons

January 4, 2013
5:30 am

Publishing director of the satyric weekly Charlie Hebdo, Charb, displays the front page of the newspaper as he poses for photographers in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (photo credit: AP/MIchel Euler)

Charlie Hebdo publishes ‘Halal’ Prophet Muhammad comic book biography

From the web Huffington Post: Despite previously being firebombed, French satirical magazine releases comic book biography of the Prophet Muhammad

October 30, 2012
3:51 pm

Diplomatic dhimmitude: Obama’s Oslo Syndrome

What the current administration fails to internalize is that radical Islam is at war with the US and the West — and no amount of apologizing is going to change that

By Richard L. Cravatts

September 27, 2012
12:24 pm

Muhammad and Talmud: A dangerous double standard

Both irrational Iranian political leaders and foolish American filmmakers have the right to their opinions, as flawed as they may be

By Darren Cohen

September 26, 2012
10:31 pm

Egyptian cartoonist Khalid Abdul-Ati from the Egyptian Al Watan daily newspaper works on a cartoon depicting an Islamic figure inside his office at the newspaper's headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)

Egyptian cartoonists fight fire with fire

Al Watan responds to French cartoons mocking Muhammad with some mocking the West

September 23, 2012
9:55 pm

As Muslims, we must oppose the Islamists ourselves

Protesting or criminalizing blasphemy is a grand hoax, irrespective of how deeply wounded our feelings as Muslims may be

By Qanta Ahmed

September 21, 2012
8:23 pm

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at Friday's major military parade in Tehran (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Israel will ‘cease to exist’ if it attacks, Iranian air force chief says

At massive Tehran military rally, with thousands of troops and an array of missiles on display, Ahmadinejad calls anti-Islam movie a plot conceived by Zionists

By Yoel Goldman and AP

September 21, 2012
10:49 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony at the nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian/File)

Ahmadinejad blasts Israel, West over film and cartoons

Iran shows off new air defense system, Raad; Iranian president calls Muhammad movie a plot conceived by Zionists to cause discord among Muslims

By AP and Yoel Goldman

September 20, 2012
3:08 pm

The cover of Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday issue, depicting an ultra-Orthodox man pushing a wheelchair-bound Muslim

Iranians protest prophet cartoons in French weekly

Protesters outside French Embassy in Tehran chant ‘Death to France’ and ‘Down with the US,’ burn the flags of both nations

September 19, 2012
2:14 pm

A French policeman stands guard outside the headquarters of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Fearing violent backlash to Mohammad cartoons, France to close 20 embassies Friday

Officials defend satirical magazine’s right to publish caricatures mocking response to controversial anti-Islam film

By AP and Times of Israel staff

September 19, 2012
2:06 pm

Police officers watch as Muslim protesters hang banners and a US flag on the razor wire surrounding the US Embassy compound in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 19, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Tatan Syuflana)

Lawyers in Pakistan rally against anti-Islam film

Peaceful protesters in the Indonesian city of Medan call on the US to punish creators of ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ a day after riots outside US Embassy in Jakarta

September 19, 2012
9:13 am

French magazine publishes cartoons of Muhammad in ‘daring positions’

Cover of Charlie Hebdo, whose offices were firebombed last year for offending Islam, features ultra-Orthodox Jew pushing a crippled Muslim man in a wheelchair

By Stuart Winer

August 18, 2012
7:43 pm

Demonstrators display signs with crossed-out mosques during a protest in front of a mosque in Berlin, Germany, Saturday. (photo credit: AP)

Prophet depictions shown in Berlin anti-Islamization demo