Voltaire must be spinning in his grave. Just down the Parisian hill from where the Enlightenment’s greatest satirist is interred, a noisy scrum of intolerance is drawing any public figure with an ...

So how did the Danish newspaper come to publish these cartoons in the first place? To find out, we called Andrew Higgins. We spoke to him in Copenhagen, where he is covering the story for The Wall ...

A caricature that many Muslims considered blasphemous prompted a debate over free speech and a massacre at the offices of a Paris magazine. By Sam Roberts The police identified the suspect in Saturday ...

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: Danish newspaper receives bomb threat for cartoon of Muhammad New York, February 1, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by a ...

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libyans angry over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad rioted at the Italian consulate on Friday, storming the building and setting it on fire. A diplomat said at least 10 people ...

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PARIS — The center-right front-runner for the French presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday earned the ire of Islamic groups when it became known that he backed a satirical magazine’s publication of ...

LONDON — Four men were sentenced to prison yesterday for their roles in a fiery protest in London against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Mizanur Rahman, 24, Umran Javed, 27, and ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — It was a provocative exercise: asking cartoonists to draw pictures of the Prophet Muhammad that were published in one of Denmark’s largest papers. But apparently no one at the ...