Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2006
Editor-in-chief of the weekly Usbou‘ responds to insults to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad by Danish and Norwegian newspapers. The two dailies have published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, considered offensive by Muslims.
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2006
In response to the angry Muslim reaction to the 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, the Danish ambassador to Egypt, Bjarne Sorensen has declared that Denmark has the greatest respect for Islam and offers his apologies.
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2006
In response to the “offensive” cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by Jyllands-Posten, a delegation of Danish Muslim clerics visited Egypt and met with their Egyptian counterparts to discuss a proportionate response to this offence.
Date of source: Saturday, January 14, 2006
Muslim scholar ‘Abd al-Sabour Shāhīn blames the Azhar and the Islamic Research Academy for not taking proper action against the recent Danish attack on the Prophet Muhammad. He also praises the position of secretary-general of the Arab League, ‘Amr Mousa, who led a diplomatic delegation, demanding...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
The Muslim community in Britain is working on clarifying the true image of Islam, particularly for young Muslims who feel some anger which, it is suggested, could drive them to commit acts of violence.
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2006
Mustafa al-Misnāwī argues that many films produced in the West, particularly the United States, send a clear message that the Arab Muslim world is beautiful and fascinating but that the people are barbaric, brutal and totally untrustworthy.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
The head of the OIC has argued that relations between the West and the Arab world are unequal and unbalanced, calling for intercultural dialogue.
Date of source: Thursday, December 15, 2005
Dr. Wajīh argues that Islam is viewed in the West through the interpretations of some western writers who are believed to be experts on Islam, something which is, in many cases, not true.
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2006
Denmark’s foreign minister calls on Muslims and their leaders around the world to look beyond the big news headlines and the inflammatory rhetoric concerning the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and points out Denmark’s positive relations with the Arab world.
Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2006
A statement by the Danish Christian NGO, Danmission, pointing out that the NGO dissociated itself from Jyllens-Posten’s cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as far back as November 2005, and calling for dialogue, rather than conflict.