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The chief rabbi of Copenhagen has criticised as “stupid” the decision of Danish newspaper Jylands Posten to publish the now infamous cartoon of Muslim prophet Muhammed. Muslims around the world have held violent demonstrations outside Danish embassies over the last week to protest the image, which reportedly featured Muhammed wearing a turban made out of a bomb. Scenes of angry mobs in cities from London to Riyadh burning Danish flags have shocked politicians and community members alike. Chief Rabbi Bent Lexner, who has made efforts to improve the relationships between Jews and Moslems in Denmark in recent years, said although...

THE LIES OF THE DANISH IMAMS By Michelle Malkin   ·   February 05, 2006 04:25 PM Lorenzo Vidino at The Counterterrorism Blog follows up on his report about how a delegation of Danish imams led by Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban disseminated fake anti-Muslim cartoons and attributed them to the Jyllands-Posten to stir up Islamist rage:Last Friday the CT Blog revealed how a delegation of Danish Muslims, led by Copenhagen imam Abu Laban, toured the Middle East in December and showed fabricated cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a very offensive fashion, even though the pictures had never appeared on Jyllands...

Danish Editor Says He'll Print Holocaust Cartoons NEW YORK (AP) -- An Iranian newspaper says it plans to publish cartoons about the Nazi Holocaust -- and a Danish editor says he'll reprint them if he can. Flemming Rose was behind the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have ignited deadly rioting in the Muslim world. Rose tells CNN he's trying to coordinate with the Iranian newspaper that's soliciting cartoons about the Holocaust. The Iranian paper -- "Hamshahri" -- says it will hold the competition to test whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the...

The United States and other countries are examining whether extremist groups are inciting protesters to riot around the world over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a US military spokesman said today. Col. James Yonts, a military spokesman in Afghanistan, made the comment when asked whether al-Qaida and the Taliban may have been involved in days of violent demonstrations there. “Other countries are having the same demonstrations, same problems. Very violent demonstrations, starting peaceful, turning violent,” Yonts said. “The United States and other countries are providing assistance in any manner that they can for the answer to that exact question that...

MUSLIMS all over the world are so angry about a series of cartoons poking fun at the Messenger of God that by now pretty much every Danish and Norwegian flag in the Muslim world has met its fiery end. And yet only in Damascus and Beirut have institutions--embassies or consulates--representing Denmark and Norway been attacked. Are Lebanese and Syrian Muslims angrier than other Muslims? Or, what's going on here? First of all, it's important to remember that Syria is an authoritarian state where nothing happens on the street unless the regime permits it to happen. Actually, that's something of an...