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Topic: Prophet Muhammad

May 18, 2013
5:06 pm

The mother of 24-year-old school teacher Dimyana Abdel-Nour, who is accused of insulting Islam while teaching fourth graders history of religions, talks about her daughter in her home in southern Egypt's ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ibrahim Zayed)

Egyptians face growing threat of blasphemy charges

Copts, Christians of the Nile Valley, increasingly targeted since Cairo criminalized religious slander in December

March 13, 2013
7:46 pm

Germany bans three Islamic groups

Police raid 22 apartments and a meeting room belonging to al-Nusra, DawaFFM and Islamic Audios

March 12, 2013
6:15 pm

The Dome of the Rock, March 1, 2013 (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

On the Temple Mount, a battle brews over Jewish prayer

Religious Jews are paying more attention to the sacred enclosure in Jerusalem’s Old City. The effects could be dramatic

By Matti Friedman

February 13, 2013
5:02 am

Border Police officers recorded chanting ‘Muhammad is dead’

From the web Ynet: Cop sentenced to 35 days in prison for uttering racist epithets while on duty in Jerusalem

February 9, 2013
2:58 pm

'Innocence of Muslims' on YouTube. (screen capture)

Cairo court orders YouTube banned for a month

Egypt blocks video-sharing website for 30 days for showing parts of controversial amateur film denigrating Muhammad

January 29, 2013
6:43 pm

Egypt's outgoing Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa (photo credit: public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Egypt’s grand mufti affirms death sentences for filmmakers

Verdict handed down in absentia for Copts living in the United States who produced the anti-Islam film ‘Innocence of Muslims’

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

November 30, 2012
5:26 pm

Egyptian protesters chant anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans as they attend a rally in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 30 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Protests erupt across Egypt after Islamist-led assembly passes new constitution; Morsi may call a referendum Saturday

Cleric compares president to Prophet Muhammad, much to the displeasure of Morsi and worshippers

By Aya Batrawy and MAGGIE MICHAEL

November 28, 2012
11:02 pm

This September 27, 2012, file courtroom sketch shows Mark Basseley Youssef (right), talking with his attorney Steve Seiden in a hearing at the US District Court in Los Angeles (photo credit: AP Photo/Mona Shafer Edwards)

Egypt court sentences 8 to death over prophet film

With defendents absent, trial over ‘Innocence of Muslims’ is largely seen as symbolic

By Sarah El Deeb

November 23, 2012
2:42 am

Muslim organization charges Toronto Jewish school with using racist textbook

Book leaves impressionable readers with a sense of suspicion and even intolerance towards their fellow Canadians, says group

October 2, 2012
3:23 am

Iranian women use computers at an Internet cafe in central Tehran (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Tehran’s Gmail ban has many Iranians clamouring for Western normality

Local substitutes don’t cut it for citizens who have paid $4.5 million to buy proxy services to reach blocked sites in the past month

October 1, 2012
6:15 pm

A scene out of the controversial film 'Innocence of Muslims' (photo credit: screenshot, YouTube)

Russia bans showing of anti-Islam film

Ruling follows a similar local decision taken last week by a court in Grozny

October 1, 2012
9:59 am

A Buddha statue stands amidst the ruins of a Buddhist temple that was torched Sunday by Muslims over a derogatory photo of the Quran on Facebook. The temple is located in the coastal district of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (photo credit: AP Photo)

Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims torch 10 Buddhist temples, 40 homes

Rioters infuriated by Buddhist boy’s Facebook photo of a burned Quran

September 30, 2012
4:24 am

Indian Muslim women shout slogans against the US on Friday during a protest rally, one of many demonstrations around the world against perceived insults to the Prophet Muhammad. (photo credit: AP/Channi Anand)

Algeria at UN: Limit free speech, protect religion

In wake of anti-Islam film, leaders from across the Muslim world want new global laws

By David Stringer

September 29, 2012
8:06 pm

Islamic group calls for global ban on offending prophet

‘If the Western world fails to understand the sensitivity of the Muslim world, then we are in trouble,’ says Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

By Diaa Hadid

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