British Islamic leaders urge speedy prosecution of UK troops in abuse video
Islamic leaders in Britain have demanded a speedy prosecution of British soldiers shown beating young Iraqi detainees and defiling an Iraqi corpse in video images that were published in the tabloid...
Yemen to prosecute newspaper editors for publishing Muhammad cartoons
The government of Yemen has announced it will prosecute the editors of three privately owned Yemeni newspapers, the Yemen Observer , al-Ra'i el-Am and al-Huriya, for offending Islam after the newspapers reprinted caricatures of...
French Muslims suing papers over cartoons as Danes pull endangered envoys
The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) , an umbrella organisation of French Muslim groups, said Friday it will sue several French newspapers that republished controversial caricatures of Muhammad which were originally printed in...
The government of mainly-Muslim Malaysia has imposed a blanket ban on the controversial caricatures of Muhammad , making it an offense to publish, import, produce, manufacture, circulate, distribute or even possess the cartoons originally printed in a...
EU Justice Commissioner calls for media code as Muslim cartoons controversy rages
EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said in an interview published Thursday that the EU may draw up a new media code of conduct to forestall any repetition of the global controversy now raging over the...
The trial of Ernst Zundel on charges of incitement, libel and disparaging the dead in connection with denying the Holocaust resumed on Thursday in Mannheim, Germany after being put...
UK Muslim leaders call for law change, ban on publication of Muhammad cartoons
In response to the publication of Muhammad caricatures in European newspapers, British Muslim leaders on Wednesday called for the UK Parliament to amend the country's Race Relations Act to protect Muslims as...
Muslim leaders urge end to cartoons violence as four protestors shot outside US base
Leaders of the Ulama Council, Afghanistan's top Islamic authority, appealed Wednesday for an end to violent protests against the publication of Muhammad caricatures in European newspapers, but the call came too late to stop hundreds rioting...
French court declines to hear Muslim cartoons complaint as leaders urge calm
A French court on Tuesday refused to hear a lawsuit launched to prevent a French newspaper from publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have caused protests and violence across the globe. The suit,...
UK minister renews call for 'glorifying terrorism' offense after cartoons protests
Following angry protests over the Muhammad cartoons by British Muslims in London late last week, UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke Tuesday renewed calls for the inclusion of a "glorifying terrorism" offense in the proposed...
