Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has published crude caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed which has many fearing they are throwing “oil on the fire” considering the protests and riots occurring right now around the world over a short film called “The Innocence of Muslims.”From Huffington Post: The prime minister said freedom of expression is guaranteed […]
The Washington Post reports that Pakistan shut down access to Twitter yesterday after the social network allegedly declined to remove tweets mentioning “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day.”Details on the allegedly offensive tweets were unavailable, but they apparently urged participation in “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,” a campaign launched two years ago that Muslims worldwide have denounced for […]
Four Swedes will have their day in Danish court tomorrow after their December 2010 arrest for allegedly planning to attack the newspaper offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper – the newspaper that published the 12 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.From the Washington Post:The trial will be the second major criminal process involving the controversial […]
Lars Vilks, whose drawing of the prophet Muhammad as a dog was published in 2007, was attacked by students throwing eggs during a lecture at Karlstad University in central Sweden. He was unharmed and was able to continue his lecture on limits of free speech after the protestors were removed from the audience. This hasn’t […]
Mikael Davud and Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak have been found guilty of plotting to bomb the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten back in 2010. David Jakobsen, the third man arrested in connection with the plot was cleared of terror charges but still was convicted of helping to acquire explosives. From MSNBC:Prosecutors said the Norwegian cell first wanted […]
The headline from the Daily Mail pretty much sums it up:University atheist society president forced to resign after cartoon of Muhammad having a drink with Jesus is posted on FacebookThe controversy is over a recent Jesus and Mo comic. The bi-weekly strip has been running since 2005.And here’s the offending cartoon.UPDATE:I was contacted by the […]
Persepolis is an animated film adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about growing up in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. It contains a scene showing a character representing God and that has cause outrage in Tunisia where it was broadcast. The television station was sued and another uproar was had when the scene was played in […]
Last week’s firebombing of its offices hasn’t stopped satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo from releasing its latest edition – which features a caricature of the editor and a Muslim character in a slobbery make-out kiss. Had the Muslim character been drawn with a turban I’m sure it would be inferred as the Prophet Mohammad (Gawker thinks […]
Charlie Hebdo, The French satirical magazine, was petro bombed last night. The BBC reports that the offices were destroyed a day after the magazine announced the Prophet Muhammad would be its editor-in-chief in the next issue and ran a caricature of the Prophet. The issue was supposed to celebrate the victory of the recent Tunisian […]
Mohammad Hassan Khalid, a high school honors student and Pakistani immigrant, was arrested last week on charges of “material support of terrorism” in connection to Colleen LaRose (AKA Jihad Jane) who was arrested for plotting to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. He was only 15 when he got involved (just turned 18 last week). The […]
Harish Yadav who goes by the pen name Mussaveer was arrested last week for drawing a cartoon about the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s refusal to wear a skull cap during the fast in Ahmedabad. He was arrested under the Indian Penal Code that punish for “deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings […]
From the BBC:Prosecutors in Norway have charged three men with conspiracy to commit terrorism in connection with the 2005 Prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy. The three are accused of planning to attack Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published his cartoons.
A suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed the mayor of Kandahar city by hiding the explosive device under his turban. The tactic is reminiscent of the Kurt Westergaard caricature of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban that incited protests and rioting that left over a 100 people dead.Adopting turban bomb as weapon by […]
Egyptian telecom mogal Naguib Sawiris has apologized for reposting images of Mickey and Minnie Mouse wearing Muslim attire through his Twitter account. Many Egyptians found the images offencive to their religion (Sawiris is Coptic Christian) and have called for a boycott of his business.The tweeted images showed Mickey Mouse wearing a traditional Islamic robe with […]
A Danish appeals court has upheld the guilty verdict of Mohamed Geele who allegedly attempted to murder Kurt Westergaard in his home with an axe on New Years Day 2010. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison, a $2,000 fine and expulsion from Denmark when his sentence is over. Both the prosecution and defense […]