Serial Holocaust denier and British historian David Irving pled guilty in an Austrian court to denying the Holocaust in both ...   more »

Not a bad looking depiction of Mohamed at all.  An appropriate Muslim response would be pride, not anger.

Generally overlooked ...   more »

In this interesting article, Paul Richards, the Washington Post's art critic, points out that images of Mohamed in Islam ...   more »

According to this article, Islam neither bans images of the prophet, nor regards religious satire as offensive--at least according to ...   more »

Yesterday (after I wrote on the topic--okay I wasn't the only one) President Bush changed his tune on the Muslim protests over European cartoons illustrating Mohamed.  Previously US officials had taken a relatively neutral line, blaming the European papers for publishing the cartoons, along with Muslim protesters for overreacting.  Now Bush has altered position, condemning the protesters, but not the papers.  This is a step in the right direction.  Washington Post article here.

This piece by Daniel Pipes on the cartoon controversy is worth a read.  He notes that the countries of "old ...   more »

 

The above cartoons are just a little sampling of the continuous, vicious and incendiary cartoons that are the daily ...   more »

By way of the IRIS.org blog I came across an interesting website called The Brussels Journal  (www.brusselsjournal.com) ...   more »

In a rare display of minor courage a couple of European papers, one in France the Die Welt in Germany have published the cartoons that have so offended Muslims and have caused a minor crisis in Europe.  You can see them for yourself here http://www.welt.de/z/photos/index.php/item/karikaturen/.  They are rather mundane.

Last fall the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten  (the largest in Denmark) published a series of cartoons depicting Mohamed (some unflatteringly) basically ...   more »