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The Independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs There we were, lapping up the September sun and enjoying an alfresco lunch in the country when Matil... As Radio 1 premieres its rejigged morning line-up, Callum Jones sympathises with the challenges of b... Callum...
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Indian Express
| 8 months ago
It seems that the easiest route to world fame is to condemn Islam, the Quran and the prophet of Islam. Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine, which was fast losing circulation, found a cheap and simple method of overcoming its financial problems...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 8 months ago
The protesters chanted "All we have is Mohammad" and held banners reading "We demand an immediate punishment for those who tried to mock our Prophet Mohammad." Some 500 people assembled in Istanbul, protesting against the anti-Islamic film, calling...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Hundreds of protesters in Istanbul burnt US and Israeli flags Sunday in a heated reaction against an American film and French cartoons that have sparked dearly riots across the Middle East and North Africa. Around 500 people gathered around the...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Around 400 people demonstrated in front of the French embassy in Tehran on Sunday to protest inflammatory depictions of Islam's Prophet Mohammad in an American-made film and in a French satirical magazine. The crowd, shouting "Death to America," "...
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Germany News in Englsh
| 8 months ago
There had been calls from within the ranks of Friedrichs own party for a change to paragraph 166 of the German constitution, which lays out penalties for insulting the customs and beliefs of religious communities. But Friedrich said that a societal...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Fifteen people were arrested Saturday outside the Grand Mosque in Paris as riot police flooded the area in anticipation of protests over an anti-Muslim cartoon. Eight hundred police officers were deployed at the mosque and in the area around the U.S.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Egypt's president and other Muslim leaders should demand the UN criminalise contempt of religion after the release of an anti-Islamic film and cartoons which demonstrate growing racism, said the leader of the biggest ultra-orthodox Islamist party.
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Kuwait Times
| 8 months ago
Paris yesterday and thwarted plans for a march in a northern city. Those arrested in the capital, who included several veiled women, were detained near the Place de la Concorde, where a week ago an unauthorised demo against the film led to 150...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
About 500 Palestinians on Saturday staged what banners proclaimed a "Festival of the followers of Mohammed" in East Jerusalem in protest against French cartoons and a US-made film offensive to Islam. "We are all faithful to Mohammed" and "Mohammed...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Marseille to prevent any protests about anti-Islam cartoons, but only a single demonstrator turned out. Around 30 journalists were also on hand to witness the man's attempt to defy an official ban on protests about a French magazine that published...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
Associated Press French police in the western city of La Rochelle have detained a man suspected of threatening to decapitate the editor of a French satirical weekly that published lewd caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Sipa news agency reported...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
French police on Saturday arrested a man for apparently calling on a jihadi website for the decapitation of the editor of a magazine that published cartoons mocking Mohammed, a judicial source said. The man was detained in the western city of La...
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Scoop
| 8 months ago
Given what happened last week, and the fact that people are being killed, Charlie Hebdo is doubly irresponsible to publish these cartoons. This week, the French magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons seen as denigrating to Islam, and which have...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Breaking the cycle The contentious film and cartoons are insults and provocation, but people still have a choice about how to express their disgust Editorial At least 47 people have died in worldwide protests sparked by an anti- Islam video and that...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Salafi Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir greeting protesters in downtown Beirut during rally against the anti-Islam movie. (NOW Lebanon) Salafi Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir said during a rally against the anti-Islam movie which ridicules the Prophet Mohammad that it...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Around a hundred Muslim protesters gathered outside the French embassy in London on Friday, shouting slogans against a French magazine that published cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed naked. The protest came as at least 15 people died on...
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Indian Express
| 8 months ago
The country's Muslim population, drawn largely from ex-colonies in North and West Africa, shrugged off the controversy as imams in mosques denounced the pictures but urged their followers to remain calm. The drawings have stoked a furore over an anti-...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Police in Tunisia prepared for possible unrest at the French Embassy in Tunis Friday after a French magazine published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Barbed wire bordered the embassy in advance of Friday prayers, Voice of America reported.
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Some 200 Moroccans protested on Friday outside a mosque in Rabat's twin city of Sale after weekly prayers, chanting anti-US slogans and denouncing US President Barack Obama, an AFP photographer reported. "Death to Obama!" "Down with the West!" and "...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Muslims around the world are protesting after an amateur US-made film insulting Prophet Mohammed appeared online and a French satirical magazine published cartoons of the founder of Islam...French far-right leader demands ban on Muslim, Jewish...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Thousands of people protested against an anti-Islam film on Friday in Basra in South Iraq, burning American and Israeli flags and carrying pictures of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The protesters marched for more than an hour in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
French schools were closed in Lebanon on Friday and the army on alert outside French institutions ahead of protests against the publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed in a French magazine. "Due to current international tensions and the...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
About 3,000 Muslims marched on the US embassy in Malaysia on Friday, burning an American flag, over a US-made film that has sparked anger in the Islamic world. Although there was no violence, angry demonstrators declared their willingness to...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs We knew September wouldn't fail us when it comes to delivering pure awesomeness in the form of event... It's restaurateur, designer, writer and philanthropist Sir Terence Conran's 81st birthday next month... Goals...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
The main agency representing Muslims in France appealed for calm on Friday as a new print run of cartoons featuring a naked Prophet Mohammad hit newsstands, raising fears of protests on prayers day around the Islamic world. The drawings in satirical...
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AKI
| 8 months ago
Police said fans from the Torcida Sandzak football club were planning to march in the centre of Novi Pazar against the low-budget film 'Innocence of Muslims' that portrays Islam's Prophet Mohammed as a womanising fraudster. Local authorities have...
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Reuters
| 8 months ago
Topics Riot policemen stand guard outside the French embassy in Sanaa September 20, 2012. The main agency representing Muslims in France appealed for calm on Friday as a new print run of cartoons featuring a naked Prophet Mohammad hit newsstands,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Protestors took to the streets of several Muslim countries yesterday (Thursday) as demonstrations gathered pace over a low-budget anti-Islamic video and cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published by a French magazine. Pakistan ordered soldiers on to...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The French Cultural Center in the southern coastal city of Sidon was closed Friday as Beirut prepared for protests against a film insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad. The French consulate and French cultural center had announced that they would close...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis are expected to protest on Friday as global Muslim anger mounts over a US-made anti-Islam film and cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a French magazine. Huge crowds attempted to storm Islamabad's diplomatic enclave on...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Security forces in several Muslim countries are gearing up for a day of fresh protests against an anti-Islam film made in the US. In Pakistan, the government has declared a national holiday to enable people to demonstrate peacefully. Washington has...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs Disgruntled iOS 6 users take to the web to slate Apple's replacement for Google Maps...Average cost of renting a home has increased to more than £800 a month Inevitably, following a triumphant summer of sporting...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The Daily Star Grand Mufti Qabbani convenes with other Sunni Muslim leaders at Dar al-Fatwa. Lebanon's rival leaders voiced support Thursday for the government's call for adopting an international legislation that prohibits and criminalizes insulting...
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Kuwait Times
| 8 months ago
A Pakistani Muslim protester throws a tear gas shell towards police as demonstrators attempt to reach the US embassy during a protest yesterday...Up to 50 people were injured as police drove back thousands of protesters, many armed with wooden clubs,...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
ments Man held in revenge plot over Muhammad cartoons Police detained a young man in France Thursday on suspicion that he was plotting an attack on the French satirical magazine that published images ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad. By Reuters /...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
A group of Iranian university students staged a protest in front of the French embassy in Tehran Thursday over the publication of Prophet Mohammad's cartoons in a French magazine, Xinhua reported. The French weekly Charlie Hebdo published naked...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
France on Thursday banned a protest against the screening of an anti-Islam US movie which has triggered outrage across the Muslim world, Xinhua reported. Paris police banned a planned protest outside Paris Mosque Saturday as a precautionary measure...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
Cairo Muslim and Arab leaders on Wednesday denounced cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a French magazine as another insult to their faith but urged people to shun a violent reaction and to protest peacefully.
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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
Paris, September 20, 2012 France has decided to close its embassies, cultural centres and schools in 20 countries on Friday as a precautionary measure against possible protests following the publication of pornographic cartoons depicting the Prophet...
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GMA News
| 8 months ago
Muslims angered by cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad should follow his example of enduring insults without retaliating, Egypt's highest Islamic legal official said on Thursday. Western embassies tightened security in Sanaa, fearing the cartoons...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
Paris A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a California -made video depicting him as a lecherous fool.
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Reuters THE United States has written to its citizens warning them to keep away from possible protest sites in Melbourne and Sydney this weekend amid fears of another outbreak of anti-American violence over the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims .
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Muslim preachers slammed Thursday an anti-Islam video that lampoons the Prophet Mohammad and urged the Lebanese government to block access to the film. The [Muslim] scholars at Dar al-Fatwa call on the Lebanese government to take the necessary...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
The Danish cartoonist who outraged Muslims with a drawing of the Prophet Mohammad seven years ago has said the West cannot let itself be muzzled by fear of offending Islamic sensibilities. Kurt Westergaard, whose lampoon of Mohammad in the Jyllands-...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
A day after a French magazine posted cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, public reaction in the Muslim world has so far been relatively muted, with isolated protests taking place in Iran and Afghanistan . But French agencies remain on high alert in...
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All Africa
| 8 months ago
According to Anglican Taonga magazine, the group labelled the film (which openly defames the Islamic prophet Muhammad) as "irresponsible" and "inflammatory", saying it was dishonestly made and presented, and designed to mislead, provoke hate, and...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
Paris police have banned a demonstration planned for Saturday in front of the city's Grand Mosque to protest against a US-made anti-Islam film, a police source said. An individual had made an official request to police to hold the demonstration about...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Complaint filed in Paris Lebanese tanks could be seen guarding the French ambassador's residence in Beirut on Wednesday A legal complaint has been filed against a French satirical magazine which published obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Up to 100 people protested in front of France's embassy in Tehran on Thursday over a French satirical weekly's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, an AFP correspondent said. The protesters chanted "Death to France," as well as Iran's...
