The vice-chancellor rightly withdrew the Jyllands-Posten editor’s invitation. But failure to consult the student body was unwise.
The Danish editor who commissioned the Mohammed cartoons that triggered deadly protests a decade ago says he’s leaving the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
Two men have been gunned down by police in Texas after opening fire at a "hate group" event celebrating cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The artist intended to challenge political correctness in art, and he was naive to think the effect of depicting the prophet would be limited.
The terrorist organisation says it was responsible for the attack that saw 17 people killed, as the latest edition of the satirical weekly sold out.
South Africa’s Muslim Judicial Council said they condemn the attacks carried out in France, but there are limits to freedom of expression.
French security forces are searching for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at a French magazine, a third suspect is in police custody.
Duelling biopics of Muhammad reflect differing traditions of Sunni and Shia Islam over depiction of the Muslim prophet.
A French satirical magazine has published a comic book biography of Prophet Muhammad.
The Orientalist scholar W Montgomery Watt wrote of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam: "Of all the world’s great men, none has been so much maligned."
Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover, soon after protests rocked the Muslim world.
Protests against insults to Prophet Muhammad turned violent in Pakistan, killing at least 15, but remained mostly peaceful in other Arab countries.
France has stepped up security and appealed for calm after a magazine published naked cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that risks fanning outrage.
Even in the hardest of cases such as this anti-Islamic film, the old arguments against censorship remain the best.
Anti-Western protests against a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad has abated, but US policy in the Muslim world remains overshadowed by the video.
Protesters have marched on US embassies across the Middle East over a film deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad.
The search for those behind the film implicated in violence in Egypt and Libya has led to a California Coptic Christian convicted of financial crimes.
Barack Obama has underscored the bond between the US and Libya, but vowed to hunt down those behind the possibly premeditated killing of the US envoy.
YouTube says it will not remove a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad entirely from the site, but it has blocked access to the clip in Egypt and Libya.
Attacks on US diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya, sparked by a film that accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad, have left one person dead.
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Malaysian authorities have detained a young Saudi journalist who fled his country after Twitter comments he made about the Prophet Mohammed.
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Danish and Swedish police said on Wednesday they had arrested five people on suspicion of planning an attack at a building in Copenhagen.
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I have been asked repeatedly over the past week "Why did you do it? Why run a cartoon that you knew would cause such profound anger?
Bigotry is again riding rampant in reaction to last week’s Zapiro cartoon in the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>, argues political analyst <b>Terry Bell</b>.
Muslims are upset with Zapiro for many reasons. So let’s unpack what irks them, says <b>Mahomed Faizal Dawjee</b>.
The <em>M&G</em> has met with leaders of the broader Muslim community to discuss its publication of a cartoon epicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Muslim leaders said they would be seeking an apology from the <i>M&G</i> after the paper published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
If anything, the Muslim cartoon controversy has proved SA is leagues ahead in our national dialogue, argues <b>Verashni Pillay</b>.
The National Press Club has called for a meeting between Jonathan Shapiro, the <em>M&G</em> and Muslim leaders to discuss a controversial cartoon.
A Zapiro cartoon has angered Muslims and the SA Muslim Judicial Council has called on its followers to express their condemnation.
A Muslim journalist’s take on Zapiro and the subsequent uproar.