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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 648

Prophet Muhammad

Islamist protesters clash with Turkish anti riot police officers as they gather to protest a cartoon supposedly depicting Islam's prophet Muhammad near LeMan Magazine in Istanbul on June 30, 2025. (Ozan KOSE / AFP)
July 1, 2025, 12:44 pm
Artist arrested, hundreds riot in Turkey over cartoon said to show Prophet Muhammad
Mob of 250-300 clashes with police after LeMan magazine prints drawing editor says ‘has nothing to do with prophet’; prosecutors say they have arrested the cartoonist, other staff
By AFP and ToI Staff
A special edition of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, published ahead of the 10th anniversary of a deadly terrorist attack on its staff, displayed at a kiosk in Paris, on January 6, 2025. (Martin Lelievre / AFP)
January 6, 2025, 2:59 pm
Insistent optimism: Charlie Hebdo unveils special edition decade after Islamist massacre
New issue of French satire magazine, a beacon of free speech, is headlined ‘Indestructible!’; 4 inside pages show entries in caricature contest to mock God and religious leaders
By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Karine Perret
A special edition of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo marking one year after the attacks on it, on a newsstand in Paris, January 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
January 4, 2025, 2:43 pm
Charlie Hebdo to mark 10 years since terror attack with special God-mocking edition
Magazine to feature ‘funniest and meanest’ depictions of God; Macron, Hidalgo to attend memorials at satirical weekly’s then-office, kosher supermarket attacked in related assault
By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Anne Pascale Reboul
Screen capture from video of Hamline University in Minnesota. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 19, 2023, 9:13 pm
Minnesota professor dismissed for showing Muhammad painting gets go-ahead to sue
Judge says Erika López Prater can file suit against Hamline University for religious discrimination, after she was fired in wake of student’s complaint over display of art
By AP
Screen capture from video of Hamline University in Minnesota. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 9, 2023, 9:19 pm
Uproar as US lecturer sacked for showing Prophet Muhammad images in art class
Hamline University in Minnesota dismisses Erika Lopez Prater for presenting 14th-century painting to students after first warning what was coming; Muslim student filed complaint
By AFP
Hundreds of Palestinian Muslims celebrate the Prophet Muhammad's birthday with a procession in Jerusalem's Old City, October 8, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
October 8, 2022, 5:36 pm
6 arrested in Jerusalem clashes during event to mark Muhammad’s birthday
Police say cop lightly hurt after Palestinians began throwing rocks and bottles at officers amid procession at Old City’s Damascus Gate
By ToI Staff
The front cover of the book "The Satanic Verses" by author Salman Rushdie is shown in London, February 15, 1989. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin)
August 14, 2022, 5:55 am
Why decades later, Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ remains so controversial
The 1988 book sparked outrage for appearing to mock the foundations of Islam by challenging the divine nature of the Quran
By Myriam Renaud
In this file photo taken on February 17, 1989, Iranian women are seen holding banners which read 'Holly Koran' and 'Kill Salman Rushdie' during a demonstration against British writer Salman Rushdie in Tehran. (Norbert Schiller/AFP)
August 12, 2022, 11:23 pm
‘No one will any longer dare offend Islam’: The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie
Author stabbed on stage 33 years after Iran’s Khomeini called on followers to rapidly execute him for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad
By Claude CASTERAN
Swedish artist Lars Vilks is pictured during a visit to Warsaw, Poland, for the opening of an exhibition that featured some of his works, Aug. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)
June 15, 2022, 5:26 pm
Sweden: Crash that killed cartoonist threatened over Muhammad drawings was accident
Police weigh in on October incident that left Lars Vilks and three others dead after exploding tire caused driver of unmarked cop car to lose control of vehicle, collide with truck
By AP
Illustrative: Cineworld movie theater in London, October 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
June 11, 2022, 11:46 pm
UK government cuts ties with imam over protests against film on Muhammad’s daughter
Officials accuse Qari Asim of attempting to limit free expression after rallies against screenings, as well as inciting anti-Shiite hate
By AFP
Pakistani traders demonstrate to condemn derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad recently made by Nupur Sharma, a spokesperson of the governing Indian Hindu nationalist party, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
June 10, 2022, 11:53 pm
Huge Muslim protests across Asia after Indian official’s remark about prophet
Anger in Islamic world snowballing since last week when a spokeswoman for Modi’s party commented on relationship between Muhammad and youngest wife on TV debate show
By AFP and ToI Staff
Indian Muslims shout slogans as they react to the derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad made by top officials in the governing Hindu nationalist party during a protest in Mumbai, India, Monday, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
June 7, 2022, 5:37 am
Muslim nations slam India over insulting remarks about Islam, Prophet Muhammad
New Delhi struggling to contain diplomatic fallout over comments made by members of PM Modi’s BJP party, which has seen protests from key regional allies
By SHEIKH SAALIQ
Danish conceptual artist Kristian von Hornsleth poses next to a sculpture he made being shown in a new exhibition at the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday Aug. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 28, 2021, 2:23 am
Polish art show defies ‘cancel culture’ but faces criticism for antisemitism
Exhibition meant to showcase artists shunned for political work, but includes Swedish provocateur who left swastikas and boxes labeled ‘Zyklon B’ outside a synagogue
By Vanessa Gera
Kurt Westergaard receiving the M100 Sanssouci Media Award in Potsdam in 2010. (Courtesy M100)
July 19, 2021, 6:39 am
Danish Muhammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard dies aged 86
Westergaard’s drawings of the Muslim prophet sparked protests and outrage; a 2012 reprint by Charlied Hebdo culminated in a massacre that left 12 people dead in Paris
By AFP
Dr. Katia Cytryn-Silverman, an archaeologist with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, poses for a portrait at the site of the Al-Juma (Friday) Mosque, in Tiberias, northern Israel, January 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
January 29, 2021, 4:32 pm
By Sea of Galilee, unprecedented excavation of mosque from Islam’s first decades
Tiberias mosque was built in 670 CE, soon after death of Prophet Mohammad; stood near synagogues and Byzantine church in ‘Golden Age’ of tolerance in newly Muslim-conquered city
By Ilan Ben Zion
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