Voltaire must be spinning in his grave. Just down the Parisian hill from where the Enlightenment’s greatest satirist is interred, a noisy scrum of intolerance is drawing any public figure with an ...

Protests sparked by cartoons lampooning the Islamic prophet Muhammad have raised concerns about relations between European and Muslim nations. Now... Controversial Muhammad Cartoons Reprinted in ...

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: Danish newspaper receives bomb threat for cartoon of Muhammad New York, February 1, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by a ...

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A caricature that many Muslims considered blasphemous prompted a debate over free speech and a massacre at the offices of a Paris magazine. By Sam Roberts The police identified the suspect in Saturday ...

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libyans angry over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad rioted at the Italian consulate on Friday, storming the building and setting it on fire. A diplomat said at least 10 people ...

COPENHAGEN — A few pen strokes thrust Kurt Westergaard into the midst of an international crisis, exposing him to death threats and an alleged assassination plot ...

A West Yorkshire school has confirmed the suspension of a teacher who used derogatory caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a religious studies lesson. It comes after parents staged an angry protest ...

PARIS — The center-right front-runner for the French presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday earned the ire of Islamic groups when it became known that he backed a satirical magazine’s publication of ...

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's hard-line president on Saturday accused the United States and Europe of being "hostages of Zionism" and said they should pay a heavy price for the publication of caricatures of ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — It was a provocative exercise: asking cartoonists to draw pictures of the Prophet Muhammad that were published in one of Denmark’s largest papers. But apparently no one at the ...