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Denmark was awash with cartoons this week, as 17 newspapers republished controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed to protest an alleged plot to murder a cartoonist. Wednesday's media defiance came a day after Denmark's security police (PET) arrested three men on suspicion of planning to murder one of the 12 cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet for the newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. It was these caricatures, commissioned by Jyllands-Posten to fuel a debate on freedom of expression, that caused Muslims worldwide to burn Danish flags and embassies and boycott Danish produce. It became...
With the arrests and the renewed printing of the caricatures, particularly the most controversial one, Westergaard's depiction of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, the question also rose whether new anti-Danish protests would sweep the Middle East and Pakistan. Bjorn Moller, an expert on terrorism and the Middle East, believes this week's cartoons will not have the same effect. "I don't believe there is any major interest in escalating this event in the Arab countries. Last time it turned out to be a strategy that didn't work...
Kronemer, who collaborated with co-executive producer Michael Wolfe on this documentary and their previous Unity Productions Foundation work, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, learned about Prince Among Slaves while discussing the idea of a project based on the spiritual lives of slaves. After coming across Alford's book and contacting him, the two attended a reunion of Rahman's descendants in Natchez. That meeting, and subsequent research, introduced them to examples of African slaves who were able to hold on to their cultural and religious identities and use their educations and practical skills to help in the development...
...knew that French law meant she had to choose between covering her head and getting an education. "It wasn't just ambition that made me feel education was more important than wearing it, but my religion," she says. "The first word that God said to our Prophet was 'Read.' God gave me intelligence, and I didn't want to waste...
...action on global warming at home and abroad, questioning and occasionally suppressing compelling scientific evidence that the earth is heating up and man-made pollution is a major reason why. In a damning speech delivered near the end of the Bali summit, former U.S. Vice President and climate-change prophet Al Gore told the rest of the world to carry on the fight against global warming without the U.S. "Save a large blank space in your documents," he said. "Move ahead anyway, on the hope that blank will be filled...