Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on its cover, soon after violent protests rocked the Muslim world over a U.S. film and French caricatures deemed insulting to Islam. El Jueves’ latest edition, which hit Spanish newsstands on Wednesday, shows several Muslims in a police lineup under
France’s Socialist government vowed Thursday to do more to integrate the country’s Muslims but warned that it would not tolerate the country becoming a hotbed of Islamic radicalism. In a speech marking the inauguration of the Strasbourg Grand Mosque, the biggest Islamic place of worship ever built on French soil, Interior Minister Manuel Valls
Egypt's new president on Wednesday hit out at Israel over its veiled threats to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and the deadlock in the Middle East peace process, AFP reports. President Mohammed Morsi received a rousing ovation for his first speech to the 193-member UN General Assembly since becoming Egypt's first civilian, democratically elected leader
Protesters gathered outside the United Nations on Wednesday to demonstrate against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he made his last speech as Iranian leader to the UN General Assembly. "Ahmadinejad, no, no, no!" the crowd of several thousand mostly Iranians chanted. Protesters also praised the US government for its plan to remove an Iranian
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday accused the West of nuclear "intimidation" in his final speech to the UN General Assembly which was boycotted by the United States and Isr.ael But the Iranian president generally steered clear of the more toxic remarks about Israel which have sparked mass walkouts at his previous seven appearances
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday was reportedly heard swearing at parliamentarians back in Iran during his visit to the United States this week. An angry remark, or curse, is believed to have slipped out of Ahmadinejad after he found out a group of mainly oppositional MPs criticized the size of the entourage traveling
President Barack Obama Tuesday vowed to hunt those behind the “attack on America” in Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and said a “disgusting” film that insulted Muslims was no excuse for violence. “The attacks on our civilians in Benghazi were attacks on America. There should be no doubt that we will be relentless
Iran has tested an array of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles and unveiled a new drone, the Islamic Republic's elite Revolutionary Guards announced Monday. The display comes as a show of military readiness for a war with Israel that General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of the elite unit, says is inevitable. Medium-range surface-to-air
The European Human Rights Court rejected Monday a final appeal by radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza to stop his extradition from Britain to the United States, where he is wanted on terrorism charges. The court upheld the judges’ decision in April in favor of extradition for Hamza and other suspected extremists, ruling that the
Iran blocked access to YouTube, Google and Gmail over the weekend citing the anti-Islam film that has gained notoriety for allegedly sparking the deadly protests that have spread throughout the Arab world. According to Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency, the sites were restricted "because of public demand." "Google and YouTube continued to carry
