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Prosecutors urged a federal judge Wednesday to deny bond to one of two Chicago men charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper, while the man's lawyer argued that his client could have been the innocent dupe of an alleged coconspirator.
Yale University has removed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from an upcoming book about how they caused outrage across the Muslim world, drawing criticism from prominent alumni and a national group of university professors.
Pope Benedict XVI pledged to remember the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust on Monday, as he sought to repair strains created by his decision to lift the excommunication of a bishop who denied the genocide took place.
An influential Islamic group branded an online video game depicting religious figures fighting each other as offensive to Muslims and Christians and successfully demanded Tuesday that it be taken offline.
Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday demanded Pope Benedict XVI apologize ahead of his Mideast tour for his previous remarks about the Prophet Muhammad that many Muslims interpreted as insulting their faith.
A Danish press freedom group said Wednesday it is selling copies of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad that caused outrage across the Muslim World.
The incoming head of NATO called on Monday for a balance between free speech and respect for religious feelings after a dispute over his support for the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad had threatened his appointment.
NATO leaders appointed Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen as NATO's new secretary-general Saturday after overcoming Turkish objections to a leader who angered Muslims around the world by supporting the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad.
A Dane who infuriated Muslims by speaking out in favor of freedom of speech during an uproar over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and who sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan is emerging as the frontrunner to be NATO's next secretary-general.
Jewish settlers on Thursday spray-painted graffiti on a mosque slurring the Prophet Muhammad and defaced a Muslim cemetery, Israeli military officials said, threatening to worsen tensions in this volatile West Bank city.
A British company has delayed publication of a controversial novel about one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives after its offices were fire-bombed, a magazine reported Saturday.
Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina" reached bookstores Monday amid fears that the book about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride might lead to violence and threats. But the author said she had received no threats and was spending the day quietly, except for talking to reporters and being photographed.
Three men charged with plotting to attack the publisher of a novel about one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives made a brief court appearance Friday and were returned to custody.
Three men charged with plotting to attack the publisher of a novel about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride made a brief court appearance Friday after being charged with plotting to damage the offices of Gibson Square publishers.
Plans for the British publication of a controversial novel about a young wife of the Prophet Muhammad are stalled following a fire at the publisher's London office, a sales representative for the company was quoted Tuesday as saying.
With British publication in doubt for Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina," the U.S. publisher of her controversial novel about the Prophet Muhammad has moved up the release date from Oct. 15 to Monday.
London police said they arrested three men Saturday on suspicion of terror links. Two of the arrests were made in a city square where the publisher of a forthcoming book about the Prophet Muhammad has its office.
An American teacher has been charged in Bahrain with insulting the Prophet Muhammad for displaying pictures of Islam's founder to university students, a spokesman for the tiny Gulf nation's general prosecutor said Friday.
A Danish appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit against the newspaper that first printed the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons in 2005, saying they were not intended to insult Muslims.
Denmark's intelligence service cast blame on al-Qaida for an attack near its embassy in Pakistan that investigators said Tuesday was carried out by a suicide bomber.
About 70 Afghan women burned the Dutch and Danish flags during a demonstration Wednesday in the capital against an anti-Islam film and the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
A Dutch court has refused to ban a lawmaker's Internet film criticizing the Quran.
Osama bin Laden accused Pope Benedict XVI of helping in a "new Crusade" against Islam and warned of a "severe" reaction to European publications of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that insulted many Muslims.
Several dozen posters containing a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban turned up on the streets of a Czech town Wednesday.
Osama bin Laden, in a new audio message posted Wednesday, condemned the publication of drawings that he said insulted the Prophet Muhammad and warned Europeans of a "severe" reaction to come.
Western hostility to Islam is stoked by double standards and distortionThe political and media bias is clear. But we Arabs and Muslims too must combat false, retrograde ideas around our religion...
Here is a bit more information about a heinous bill being considered by the Iranian Parliament that could unleash a fury of pogroms against Iranian religious minorities.
American Fifth Column In Action: D.C. Imam Declares Muslim Takeover-PlanA Washington, D.C., imam states explicitly on the website for his organization that he is part of a movement working toward replacement of the U.S. government with "the Islamic State of North America" by 2050.
Few Battlefield Romances From Iraq What is striking about the Iraq War is not that couples have met and fallen for each other and succeeded like Jimmy and Lena in getting married. It's that so few of them have.
Muhammad Uproar: Swedish Cartoonist Goes into HidingSwedish artist Lars Vilks is taking no chances. After a cartoon he drew of the Prophet Muhammad was published, the cartoonist received death threats and has temporarily gone into hiding under police protection.
Swedish Muslim group to sue newspaper over Muhammad drawing A Swedish Muslim group on Tuesday said it plans to sue a local newspaper for publishing a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body.
Sacred Texts: Picturing the ProphetThis is an unusual example of the Prophet Muhammad pictured in an Islamic manuscript. It comes from a royal miniature made to illustrate a copy of the poems of the celebrated Persian Nizami, and depicts the Prophet's ascension to heaven on the horse Buraq.
"Greater Jihad" means waging war against violence"The word jihad does not signify "war" (qital) alone, but can also mean to strive mightily to defeat one's own ego, so as to become humble and at peace with oneself, with God, and His varied creation.
Islamic Culture and Faith: Muslims Speak Out by Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of Bosnia1. What is Jihad? Under what conditions does Islam sanction the use of violence? What would you tell suicide bombers who invoke Islam to justify their actions?
Jihad, Women's Rights and Freedom of Religion in Islam by Ali Gomaa, Grand Mufti of Egypt.Within Islam the term jihad refers to a large category of meanings. Today, however, there are attempts to isolate this term to only one form of jihad to the exclusion of all others.
Learn the Basics of Islam before announcing JihadCan i ask you a question is suicide allowed in Islam ? Lal masjid(red mosque) also had students who were suicide bombers, now do you have an answer for that ? If Musharraf wanted he could have bomber the lal masjid(red mosque) in just 5 sec with the F-16s, did he do that ? What …
Bin Laden Appears in New al-Qaida Video- A new al-Qaida videotape posted Sunday on a militant Web site featured a short, undated clip of a weary-looking Osama bin Laden praising martyrdom.
Questioning Whether Islam Is Religion of PeaceThe latest batch of attacks by Islamic terrorists raised fresh concerns among Muslims over what they fear may be "heinous attempts" to link terror with Islam.
Muslims for Hope - Relay for LifeThe event is about compassion and unity for a noble cause that affects all segments of society. The American Cancer Society created such events called Relay for Life to raise awareness and funds to find a cure to cancer.
Hamas calling for the "liberation of Palestine" through terrorism, "slaughter the Jews"Ismail Radwan delivering the Friday sermon: a call to slaughter the Jews and liberate Palestine with guns and rockets (Palestinian TV, March 30, 2007) 1.
Islam, a Religion of Violence?::By Dinesh D'SouzaConfronted with fanatical Muslims who seem bent on corroborating the worst accusations against their religion, we in the West seem justified in upholding Samuel Huntington's famous thesis of a "clash of civilizations." From the Danish cartoon controversy to the reaction to the P …
How I Went To See A War And A Fox News Editorial Broke Out Tonight we went to see the movie "300", and what we found instead was a polemic in support of Bush's policies, both domestic (the Patriot Act) and foreign (war campaigns on any country in the Middle East not named Israel).
Two Muslim groups sue French newspaper over satirical cartoonsTwo Muslim organizations took their lawsuit against a satirical newspaper to court Wednesday, for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that touched off rioting around the world.
This is not a clash of religions For many Western liberals — and even some conservatives — the war on terror is a clash of opposed fundamentalisms: Christian fundamentalism vs. Islamic fundamentalism. And the solution? Promote secularism both here in America and throughout the Muslim world.
A reader dared me to go to the Muslim world. "They're all savages" he said. So I went. Here's what I didn't find."You need to go see how they live over there," he huffed in a phone call at the beginning of the year. By "they," he meant believers of Islam. "Over there" was anywhere outside of America. "They're savages," he said. "Don't you get it?"
Investigation to be launched into racist article in ultra-orthodox magazineIn a letter received by Adalah on 23 November 2006, the State Prosecutor's Office in Israel announced that a criminal investigation for racial incitement into the publication of an article in Issue 160 of the ultra-orthodox Hassidic World magazine will be launched.
Denmark 'Egypt's foe', says pollDenmark is one of Egypt's worst enemies, second only after Israel, an Egyptian government poll has indicated. The pollsters asked a random selection of 1,000 Egyptian adults their attitudes to different countries.
Religious fears force off operaA Berlin opera company cancelled a Mozart production over security fears because it features the severed heads of the Prophet Muhammad and Jesus.
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