Seven Muslims arrested over 'plot to kill cartoonist'
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Seven Muslims were arrested in the Irish Republic today over an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, police said: Al Qaeda put a $100,000 bounty on the head of cartoonist Lars Vilks after a newspaper published his cartoon.
READ MORE: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7055282.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093
TAGS: Freedom of Speech, Ireland
International Not-All-Women's Day
Monday, 8 March 2010
In a piece titled "International Not All Women's Day," Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes: "The challenge for the next century is to make sure the globalization of feminism trumps cultural relativism."
READ MORE: http://www.aei.org/article/101759
TAGS: Reform, United States
Five European states back burka ban
Monday, 1 March 2010
More than half of voters in four other major European states back a push by France's Nicolas Sarkozy to ban women from wearing the burka, according to an opinion poll for the Financial Times.
READ MORE: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e0c0e732-254d-11df-9cdb-00144feab49a.html
TAGS: Analysis, Dress in the public sphere, France
Danish daily issues apology over prophet drawing
Friday, 26 February 2010
A Danish newspaper on Friday apologized for offending Muslims by reprinting a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad: Danish daily Politiken said its apology was part of a settlement with a Saudi lawyer representing eight Muslim groups in the Middle East and Australia, but the apology drew strong criticism among Danish media, which previously had stood united in rejecting calls to apologize for 12 Muhammad cartoons that sparked fierce protests in the Muslim world four years ago.
READ MORE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/26/AR2010022602346.html
TAGS: Freedom of Speech, Denmark
Libya's Gaddafi urges jihad against Switzerland
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on Thursday for a "jihad" or armed struggle against Switzerland, saying it was an infidel state that was destroying mosques: "Any Muslim in any part of the world who works with Switzerland is an apostate, is against (the Prophet) Mohammad, God and the Koran," Gaddafi said during a meeting in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi to mark the Prophet's birthday.
READ MORE: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61O53820100225
TAGS: Reform, Switzerland
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