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Danish paper defends images of Muhammad, banned in Sunni Islam
12:00 AM CST on Saturday, December 10, 2005
/ Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark ? It was a provocative exercise: asking cartoonists to draw pictures of the prophet Muhammad to be published in one of Denmark's largest newspapers.
But apparently no one at the Jyllands-Posten daily imagined the scale of the fallout: death threats against the artists, protest strikes in Kashmir, condemnation from Muslim leaders worldwide, and criticism from the U.N."
The paper refused to apologize for publishing the drawings, which appeared Sept. 30, citing freedom of speech ? a right cherished in this northern European country of 5.4 million.
Artists now, as they have for centuries, stake their lives for their expression.
terrorism,
politics,
Islam
art
Danish paper defends images of Muhammad, banned in Sunni Islam
12:00 AM CST on Saturday, December 10, 2005
/ Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark ? It was a provocative exercise: asking cartoonists to draw pictures of the prophet Muhammad to be published in one of Denmark's largest newspapers.
But apparently no one at the Jyllands-Posten daily imagined the scale of the fallout: death threats against the artists, protest strikes in Kashmir, condemnation from Muslim leaders worldwide, and criticism from the U.N."
The paper refused to apologize for publishing the drawings, which appeared Sept. 30, citing freedom of speech ? a right cherished in this northern European country of 5.4 million.
Artists now, as they have for centuries, stake their lives for their expression.
terrorism,
politics,
Islam
art
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