Friday, February 03, 2006

CHRISTIAN PAPERS PRINT CARTOONS OF MUHAMMED

MORE CHRISTIAN PAPERS PRINT CARTOONS OF MUHAMMAD, FUELING DISPUTE WITH - TOPAlan Cowell, New York Times, 2/2/06http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/international/europe/02danish.htmlBroadening a debate that has set Europe against the Islamic world, several European newspapers on Wednesday reprinted cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in an unflattering light, supporting a Danish newspaper that had inspired a huge outcry in the Islamic world by publishing them in the first place.The newspapers' actions fed a sharpening debate here over freedom of _expression, human rights and what the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten, the paper that first published the cartoons last September, called a "clash of civilizations" between secular Western democracies and Islamic societies. (MORE)

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