Danish Cartoon Scandal

Islamic Art Scholar Deserves More Obituaries

Menachem Wecker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Art, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Islamic Art, Religious Art, Oleg Grabar, Obituary, Harvard, Institute for Advanced Study, Art Scholarship, Art History, Religion News

A statement from the Institute for Advanced Study says that over the last six decades Grabar's research "has had a profound and far-reaching influence on the study of Islamic art and architecture."

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The New York Times, Danish Cartoons v. WikiLeaks

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Military Service, Wikileaks, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Media News

Maybe the Times and other respectable news outlets are right to publish the WikiLeaks. But their claim that they are only doing so because of the public's "right to know" rings hollow.

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Ground Zero Mosque Protesters Borrow a Page From the Muslim Playbook

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Muhammad, Ground Zero Mosque, Pearl Harbor, park51, Cordoba House, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Sarah Palin, 9/11, Sushi, South Park Muhammad, Glenn Beck, Israel, Barack Obama, South Park, New York News

Since when did the argument, "This should be banned because it's offensive and hurts our feelings!" start earning a place in any kind of rational discourse? Is sensitivity a prerequisite for freedom of expression?

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Rana, Chicago Businessman, Held In Plot Against Danish Paper

Yahoo! News | Andrew Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trial, Danish-Newspaper-Terror-Plot, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Chicago, Chicago News

A U.S. judge considering bail for Pakistani-born Chicago businessman, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, accused of conspiring to launch attacks against a Danish ...

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Chicago Suspects In Danish Cartoon Terror Plot Eyed In India Attacks

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorism, David Coleman Headley, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Mohammed Cartoon, Lashkar-E-Taiba, Mumbai Attacks, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Two Chicago men accused of developing what federal prosecutors call a blueprint for a terrorist assault on a Danish newspaper also are...

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Ill. terrorism suspects indicted in Mumbai attack

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tahawwur Rana, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Chicago, Mumbai Attacks, Mumbai, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Jyllands Posten, David Coleman Headley, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Two Chicago men were indicted Thursday on charges they planned a violent attack on a Danish newspaper and helped lay the groundwork fo...

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Chicago Men Charged With Danish Terror Plot Also Planned India Attack: Feds

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tahawwura Rana, David Headley, Terrorism, Mohammed Cartoons, Danish Newspaper Terror Plot, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A Chicago man charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed a possible attack against a mili...

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Yale and the Danish Cartoons

Kamran Pasha | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Racism, Christianity, Islam, John Bolton, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Yale, World News

Muslims have always used art, including fiction, to spread the message of Islam. We have just forgotten our own heritage.

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Mohammed Cartoon Prints Go On Sale

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohammed Cartoon, Danish Cartoons, International Free Press Society, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Foreign Affairs, Mohammed Cartoons, Danish Free Press Society, Anders Fogh Rasmussen Cartoons, Kurt Westergaard, Anders Fogh Rasmussen Nato, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Advocacy, Muslim World, Religion, Islam, World News

Prints of the Danish cartoon depicting Islam's Prophet Mohammed as a suicide bomber in 2005 -- much to the chagrin of the international Muslim communi...

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God, I Miss George Bush

Doon Baqi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neocons, Neoconservatives, Iran, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Gop, President Obama, Republican, President Bush, Politics News

We can now assume full responsibility for the good that we do as Americans, which is fantastic, but the reason I miss W is that I have lost my scapegoat if we do bad.

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The Mohammad Cartoons Then and Now: Defending Satire

Joel Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Yorker Cartoonist, New Yorker Cover Obamas, New Yorker, Censorship, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Media News

Even if we were offended by the New Yorker cover, we all must speak up for the right to offend. Discussions of "taste" or "respect" are insidious code words for censorship.

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