Chronology of the controversy of the caricatures of Mahomet

This article treats the chronology of the international crisis of the caricatures of Mahomet of Jyllands-Posten . Course of the events which followed the caricature publication of Mahomet on September 30th, 2005.

This article describes the stages which made it possible to arrive at violences and tensions international, starting from the publication of the caricatures, by detailing stage by stage the polarization of the conflict, and the climbing of the attitudes on both sides.

2005

September 2005

  • September 17th 2005: the Danish newspaper Politiken publishes the article Dyb angst for kritik af Islam (major Fear of the criticism of Islam).
  • In September. Flemming Pink, person in charge of the culture section of the preserving newspaper Jyllands-Posten lance a call to the federation of the draftsmen independent of Denmark and their request of the caricatures of Mahomet. This initiative is in particular an answer to the difficulties encountered by the Danish writer Kåre Bluitgen to make illustrate its book for children devoted to Mahomet, the Danish artists contacted by this last having announced their fear of the reactions of Moslem extremists. On the forty artists contacted by the Jyllands-Posten , twelve answer positively.
  • September 30th, 2005: First publication of the twelve caricatures by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten under the title faces of Mahomet .

October 2005

  • October 9th, 2005: The Islamic Société of Denmark requires that the Jyllands-Posten present its excuses and withdraws the caricatures.
  • October 12th 2005: The Jyllands-Posten indicates to have received death threats.
  • October 14th 2005:
    • 3.500 Moslems express in front of the offices of the Jyllands-Posten .
    • Two of the draftsmen receives death threats.
  • October 16th 2005: Denmark. A 17 year old teenager is challenged in Aarhus. It is suspecté to have threatened two of the authors of these caricatures.
  • October 17th 2005: Publication: Six caricatures of the Jyllands-Posten are published in the Egyptian newspaper Al Fagr, during the Ramadan and without aucunes reactions neither policies nor nuns. (First publication in a Moslem newspaper and second world republication). ,

  • October 19th 2005: Eleven ambassadors ask to meet the Prime Minister for the Denmark, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and require that it take his distances with the drawings published in the Jyllands-Posten like with the other pejorative remarks published in the Danish media on Islam. The Prime Minister refuses this interview under pretext which it does not have of influence on freedom of the press.

  • October 20th 2005: An Islamic group named the glorious Brigades in Northern Europe threat to make attacks in Denmark, in particular with the seat of Jyllands-Posten .

November 2005

  • From November to December, a delegation of Imams of the organization Islamic Société of Denmark goes to the the Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria) under pretext of draw their attentions to the caricatures. They present very discussed the Akkari File of the Caricatures of Mahomet of 43 pages containing of false proclamations.

  • Publication: another newspaper Danish, Weekendavisen publishes an additional series of 10 caricatures of Mahomet.

  • November 2nd 2005: The Lebanese Foreign Minister meets the ambassador of Egypt in Lebanon in order to evoke the business of the caricatures and to think of measurements being able to be taken against Denmark.

  • November 3rd 2005:
  • November 7th 2005: The government of the Bangladesh officially protests near the government Danish.
  • November 15th 2005: The Pakistani newspaper Nawa-i-waqt indicated that a person in charge of the Islamic group Jamaat-i-Islami offers a reward of 500.000 rupees (7 150 euros) to whoever would kill one of the draftsmen.
  • November 16th 2006: WAN, the worldwide association of the newspapers, states to support the action of the Jyllands-Posten .

December 2005

  • December 2nd 2005:
    • Danish the Prime Minister condemns the remarks of the Islamic person in charge Jamaat-i-Islami while warning its nationals.
    • Jamaat-i-Islami indicates that it is not implied in these death threats
  • December 8th 2005: The Islamic Summit with Mecque evokes the subject of the caricatures.
  • December 29th 2005: The Arab Foreign Ministers, convened in Cairo with the seat of the the Arab League, declare " surprised and indignés" vis-a-vis the inaction of the Danish government.

January 2006

  • January 1st 2006: Denmark. During his speech of the New year, Danish the Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, stress the fact that the religion and freedom of thought are respected in a way equal to Denmark.
  • January 7th 2006: Publication: two caricatures are printed in the Swedish newspaper Expressen and in associated newspapers Kvällsposten and WP .
  • January 10th 2006: Publication: the newspaper conservative-Protestant Magazinet publishes all 12 caricature.
  • January 22nd 2006: Publication: the Brussels Journal publishes the caricatures.
  • January 24th 2006: The government of Saudi Arabia proclaims its first public judgment of the caricatures.
  • January 26th 2006:
    • the Saudi Arabia begins the Boycott Danish products.
    • Saudi Arabia points out (made return) its ambassador of Denmark
    • Norway. The Foreign Minister sends a letter to the Norwegian ambassadors in the Middle East affirming that one of the pillars of the Norwegian company is the Freedom of expression, however it also regrets that Magazinet did not respect the beliefs of the Moslems.
  • January 27th 2006: Kuwait. The boycott starts in Kuwait.

February 2006

2006

; Events

; Reaction

  • Finland. The Finnish Foreign Minister, critical Erkki Tuomioja the Danish government for its slow actions in this business.
  • Norway. The Norwegian vice-minister of the foreign affairs presents his excuses to the chief of the Lebanese diplomacy.
  • Oman. Boycott of the Danish products by the chains of shops.

  • Syria. The embassy of the Denmark in Syria is evacuated because of a bomb scare which appeared distorts thereafter. The Syrian government points out (made return) its ambassador of Denmark. The Danish ambassador in Damas is convened by the Syrian authorities.

  • Chetchnia. The war leader, politician, and " terroriste" Shamil Bassaiev condemns the caricatures.
  • Malaysia. An influential Malaysian organization the Association of the Moslem consumers of Malaysia, invites the government of Malaysia to send a protest against the caricatures to the Danish government.
  • Indonesia. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs indonésien condemns the caricatures by affirming that the Freedom of expression should not be used like a pretext to insult a religion.

February 2nd 2006

  • Of the Palestinian armed groups threatens to be caught some to the Westerners (especially French, Dane and Norwegians) being in Gaza and in the West Bank; members of the Fatah penetrated in the center sheltering the representation of the European Union, requiring excuses.
  • Norway closes its diplomatic representation in Palestine.

February 3rd 2006

  • Israel (Karmia). The Islamic Jihad asserted the shooting of a rocket which made 4 wounded to want “ to defend the prophet ”. A baby is seriously wounded.

  • Turkey. Demonstration: Of the demonstrators burns flags Danish and French .

  • Syria (Damas). A false rumor is propagated by SMS according to which the Danish would burn specimens of Coran on the great place of Copenhagen. The objective is to excite the crowd of the Syrian Moslems, this objective is achieved.

  • England (London). Demonstration: Of the hundreds of Moslems expresses after the great prayer with the central mosque of Regent' S Park. The slogans are particularly violent one. - “ Let us massacre those which insult Islam ” - “ Europe you will pay - “ Décapitons those which insult Islam ” - “ Exterminons those which calumniate Islam ” - “ Europe learns the lesson of September 11th ” - “ Britanniques, you will pay with your blood ” - “ on July 7th will return ” - “ Jihad, jihad with bottom Europe ”.

February 4th 2006

; Events

  • Syria. Demonstration: Following the intoxication campaign organized in writing pad by the Syrian mode, of the demonstrators attacks the European embassies. The Embassies of Norway and Denmark are burnt like those of Chile and Sweden. The embassy of France east taken by storm but curiously the police officers defends it and pushes back the demonstrators.

  • Djibouti. Demonstration: Of violent demonstrations takes place against the caricatures. 1500 students are descended in the street. This movement made five wounded including one seriously reached by teargas used by the police force, in order to defend oneself against the stones, stones and others.

  • England (London). Demonstration: With the call of the Islamic organization Hizbi Tahrir, a thousand of Moslems express in front of the embassy of Denmark. The slogans are of the " type; Massacre those which insult Islam " and " Europe, your September 11th * will come " and one of the demonstrators was equipped like a terrorist kamikaze. (*cf Made an attempt of September 11th, 2001 on New York).

  • Jordan. Publication: Arrest of two Jordanian editor associations which had published the caricatures in their newspapers (Jihad Momani, editor association of the weekly magazine Shihane and Hachem Al-Khalid, editor association of newspaper Al-Mehwar ).

; Reactions

  • European Union (Vienna). The Austrian presidency of the European Union condemns its attacks like unacceptable.,
  • the United States. The United States condemned in a strong way the attacks and showed the mode of the Syrian president Bachar el-Assad to support them.,
  • Gaza. Mahmoud Zahar, directing of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza declares that the authors of the drawings deserved death: " We should have killed all those which offend the Prophet, and instead of that we are there, protesting peacefully. ;

February 5th 2006

; Events
  • Lebanon (Beirut). Demonstration: the police force must use teargases to disperse a crowd of demonstrators of more than 15.000 people answering the call of the " National movement for the defense of the Mahomet" prophet; who took by storm the consulate of Denmark and set fire to it. With the slogans " " There is of God only Allah and Mohammed is her prophète" , the demonstrators lapidated churches (Saint-Maron church), trade and villas of the Christian quarters of Achrafiyé, and destroyed of them the police cars, the trucks of firemen. There are several tens of casualties. 180 demonstrators were stopped, 2/3 of the prisoners are Syrian and Palestinian origins.
  • Afghanistan (Jalalabad). Demonstration: a thousand of people express to protest against the publication of the caricatures.

  • Palestine (Nablus). Demonstration: a score of Palestinians out of weapons express in front of the French arts center.

  • Egypt (Cairo). Demonstration: 3000 Egyptians express and ask the government to break the relations with the Denmark and the Norway and to start a Boycott.

  • Iraq. Soldiers Danish in Iraq were the target of shootings in the south of the country.
  • France (Paris). Demonstration: Of the thousands of people takes part in a demonstration between Place of the Nation and Bastille, demonstration not - authorized by the prefecture and of which the General informations do not say anything to know.
  • Belgium (Brussels). Demonstration: Plus of 3.000 people ravelled with the step of load to the grids of VRT and RTBF to the call (relayed by SMS) of a young person of Moroccan origin which required of the VRT (Flemish television) not to show the caricatures more. No organization had invited to express.

; Reactions

  • the British conservative party asks that the police force act against the violent demonstrations of London. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • Iran recalls its ambassador to Denmark. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • the American embassy in Damas closes its doors. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • the Danish Minister for the foreign affairs invites his nationals to leave Lebanon. Source: Nouvel Observateur
  • the European Union and the United States condemn the fires which devastated the diplomatic representations. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • UNO. The general secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, renewed his call to the Muslim world to accept the excuses presented by the Danish newspaper which published the caricatures of Mahomet and to abstain from any violent reaction. Source: Xinhua.06.02.06
  • Iraq. The Islamic army in Iraq threatens to strike the interests of the European countries whose newspapers published caricatures.
  • Iraq. The Iraqi ministry of Transport, Mr. Salam Al-Maliki, announces the freezing of the contracts with Denmark and Norway to protest against the publication of caricatures of the prophet. Source: Wire News TF1.
  • Lebanon. Resignation of the Minister of Interior Department Mr. Hassan Al-Sabaa after the fire of the Danish consulate.
  • Lebanon. Saad Hariri denounced a Syrian handling , using like pretexts the drawings to engage of the actions of destabilization of Lebanon.
  • France. The former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius declares that " Beaucoup of Moslems felt wounded " (by the caricatures of Mahomet) " for as much that does not make it possible to carry breach of liberty of expression ". Source: Wire News TF1.
  • France. The socialist former minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn affirms with LCI about the Parisian demonstration that " that feels handling ". Fouad Allaoui, vice-president of the French Council of the Muslim cult, stated not to be informed of this gathering. Source: TF1.

February 6th 2006

; Events

  • France (Paris). The buildings of the daily newspaper France Soir , which reproduced the caricatures are evacuated following a bomb scare communicated by an anonymous call. Bomb disposal experts as of the experts of the central Laboratory of the judicial police were dispatched on the spot.

  • Croatia. Publication: the Croatian newspaper " Nacional " publish the caricatures, with 6 of enters they in cover.

  • Indonesia (Jakarta). Demonstration: Of the hundreds of Moslems (on a population of more than 225 million inhabitants) protests in front of the embassy of the Denmark. Stone jet and panes of the embassy broken. The demonstration turns to the riot. The rioters attack, shooting on a police officer. The police officers counteract, shoot at crowd. 1 died, 4 wounded.

  • Indonesia (Surabaya). Demonstration: the police force draws in the air in front of the consulate from the the United States to push back the demonstrators.

  • Afghanistan (Jalalabad). Demonstration: the demonstrators have like slogan: “ Died With the Danes, Died with the Jews ”. 1 died, several casualties.

  • Afghanistan (Kabul). Demonstration: Four demonstrators were killed and 19 others wounded in front of the American base of Bagram, during a demonstration.

  • Thailand (Bangkok). Demonstration: 200 Moslems express in front of the embassy of the Denmark to the cry of “ Allah is tall ” and by burning Danish flags.

  • India (Indian Cashmere, Srinagar). Demonstration: General strike to express against the caricatures. Closed schools and trade.

  • India (New Delhi). Demonstration: the Indian police force makes use of teargas grenades and water cannons to disperse hundreds of students who express.

  • Iraq (Kout). Demonstration: Two thousand Shiite Iraqi claim a Fatwa (religious opinion) their religious leaders authorizing the assassination of the authors of the caricatures of judged Mahomet blasphématoires. The demonstrators burned the flags of the Denmark, Germany and Israel but also an effigy of Danish the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The demonstrators called with died of whoever insults their prophet.

  • Gaza. Demonstration: the Palestinian police force dispersed manu militari the hundreds of schoolboys who expressed by throwing stones on the desk of the European Union.

  • Somalia (Bossaso). Demonstration: At least a person was killed and several others wounded in the port city of Bossaso (north-eastern of Somalia) during confrontations between security forces and demonstrators denouncing the publication of the caricatures. The demonstrators threw stones on the desks of the international organizations of assistance and the the United Nations.

  • Egypt (Cairo). Demonstration: Of the thousands of Egyptian students, carried out by the sheik of Al-Azhar, more the high ranking authority of Islam sunnite, expresses in Cairo to protest against “the attack made to the prophet”. The sheik qualified the Danish newspaper and the European daily newspapers of “press of gutter”. In addition to sheik Tantaoui, the mufti of the Republic, Ali Jomaa, and the Minister for Waqfs (quite religious), Mahmoud Hamdi Zagzoug, also took part in the demonstration, which took place at the Al-Azhar university. “ the Moslems will not let pass this insult ”, affirmed the Minister Mr. Zagzoug.

  • Australia (Canberra). Demonstration: Of the Moslems in anger requires the excuses of an Australian daily newspaper after it published Saturday one of the twelve caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstration: the embassy of Austria is attacked. Hundreds of Iranians were caught some with the embassy from Austria to Teheran and tried to put fire at it while launching kingpins after having broken all the panes of the building. The protesters denounced at the same time, seems it, the sasine of the Safety advice in the Iranian nuclear fill and the publication of the caricatures. The gathering, envisaged and obviously authorized, was organized by the Bassidjis, the militia of the Gardiens of the Revolution, in which the president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made part of his career.

  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstration: Of the hundreds of demonstrators launches kingpins against the enclosure of the embassy of the Denmark.

  • Lebanon (Beirut). Demonstration: Plus of 300 people is challenged by the Lebanese army and the police force following the riots which have occurred Sunday in Christian quarters of Beirut.

; Reactions

  • Denmark. The Danish ministry of the Foreign affairs disadvises to the nationals of the kingdom going in 14 Moslem countries.

  • Denmark. An organization gathering twelve Danish tour operators accounting for 90% of the voyages charters of the country decides to cancel all its voyages bound for the Egypt, of the Tunisia and the Morocco.

  • Denmark. The Danish national team of table tennis decides to cancel her participation in two tournaments Pro Turn with the Qatar and the Kuwait following the recommendations of the Danish government.

  • Sweden. Sweden claims a common initiative of the European Union and Arab countries to put an end to the violent demonstrations.

  • Belgium. An American high ranking official shows the Syria to have played a part in the attacks against European embassies with Damas.

  • European Union (Vienna). The Austrian presidency of the European Union asks for the Moslem countries “ of ensure protection ” people and goods.

  • UNO. With Dubai, the general secretary of UNO Kofi Annan invites the Moslems in anger with “ to forgive ” and to abstain from any recourse to violence.

  • Czech Republic. The Czech Ministry for Foreign Affairs announces a reinforcement of the security measures to the accesses of the Czech diplomatic mission with Ramallah, in the West Bank, following the recent attacks against European embassies.

  • Germany. Germany declares that she wants to use her contacts in the Arab world to defuse violences and to avoid a “ war of the cultures ”.

  • England. “ Nothing can justify violence against embassies in connection with the business of the caricatures of Mahomet and we are fully interdependent of the countries concerned ”, affirms the spokesperson of British the Prime Minister Tony Blair.

  • England. The newspaper The Sun publishes photographs of demonstrators, of which that of a young person disguised as a kamikaze, who, according to Sun, should have been stopped at once.

  • France. France condemns the unjustifiable attacks “ ” against diplomatic buildings in Beirut and Damas.

  • France. The French Communist party (PCF) condemns “ with greatest firmness ” " violences against newspapers or countries following the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet.

  • France. The Socialist party estimates that “ it is not the street which makes the law ” " and that “ the freedom of the press and of expression are consubstantial with the democracy and are not negotiated ”.

  • France. The defense association of secularity Equalizes, which chairs the radical senator Gerard Delfau, denounces in an official statement the “ Sainte Alliance ” which was constituted against freedom of expression.

  • France. Mouloud Aounit, representing MRAP which wants to carry felt sorry for racial hate denounces with the radio RMC the newspaper France-Evening like “ a newspaper of the right-hand side-extreme ”, it affirms that “ Denmark is a racist country ”. According to its own words, the fanatics make use of the excuse of these caricatures to make apply their sectarian points of view.

  • France. The party of the Breton nationalist right Adsav ensures the Denmark of its support.

  • France. The national secretary of the Socialist party (PS) to secularity, Jean Glavany, denounces “ an unacceptable concession with the integrisms and fundamentalisms ” in certain standpoint in connection with the publication of the caricatures.

  • Quebec. The writer Maurice Dantec publishes his lampoon “ We are all of the Danish caricaturists ”. He affirms that “ It is the 4th World war which has just begun ”.

  • Bulgaria. Bulgarian the Prime Minister, Serguei Stanichev, invites the media of his country with “ to respect ” the feelings of the Moslems after the resumption of caricatures of Mahomet in three Bulgarian daily newspapers, while considering “ unacceptable ” the demonstrations of violence.

  • Spain. The Spanish government announces a reinforcement of the safety of its embassies to prevent possible attacks of Moslems.

  • the Vatican. A person in charge in the Vatican of the interreligieux dialog, the British archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, invites Christian and Moslems with “ to calm the spirits”.

  • Romania. The Rumanian orthodoxe Church launches a call with the “ tolerance and the responsibility ”.

  • Romania the First Rumanian minister, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu invites to the respect of the “ religious sensitivities ”, regretting the wave of violences in the Arab world.

  • Russia. Russia calls with calm and the tolerance.

  • Macedonia (Skopje). The orthodoxe Church Macedonian condemns the publication in Europe of caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Croatia. A Croatian Moslem party qualifies the caricatures of “ media terrorism ”. “ freedom of the press is only one pretext so that media terrorism against the Moslems becomes even more present in the world press ”, the Parti the democratic action estimated (SDA).

  • Australia. Several Australian newspapers, whose principal tabloïds of Sydney and Melbourne, indicates that they do not intend to publish the caricatures.

  • Malaysia. Publication: the editor association of a small Malaysian newspaper resigns after having reproduced the caricatures.

  • Djibouti. Prohibition of the product imports Danish like their marketing after demonstrations against the caricature publication of Mahomet.

  • Pakistan (Multan) the main association of doctors Pakistani announces a boycott of the drugs resulting from the European countries where the caricatures were published.

  • Syria. The Syrian Minister for the Religious affairs, Ziad Eddin Ayyoubi, rejects criticisms of passivity of the Syrian authorities formulated by the Denmark at the time of the confusion of his embassy last Saturday to Damas.

  • Iran (Teheran). The most important Iranian newspaper announces the launching of a contest of caricatures on the Holocaust.

February 7th 2006

; Events

  • Croatia (Zagreb). Publication: the Croatian weekly magazine Nacional publishes the twelve caricatures representing the Mahomet prophet.

  • England (London). Publication: a studying weekly magazine published in the university of Cardiff and Internet site of a socialist political movement are first Tuesday in Great Britain to publish the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet.

  • England (London). A young Moslem who raised a waistcoat of kamikaze Saturday at the time of a demonstration against the caricatures of Mahomet to London stopped east.

  • France (Paris). Publication: the Muslim organizations, whose French Council of the Muslim cult (CFCM), asking for the seizure of the number of Charlie Hebdo to appear Wednesday are déboutées.

  • France (Paris). The French government tried to make prohibit the newspaper Charlie Hebdo by influencing the judges in their advising to accept the complaints of Muslim associations and the MRAP' . Information disseminated on France Inter the 07.02.06

  • Hungary. (Budapest). The Hungarian police force reinforces the security measures around the embassies of Denmark and Norway.

  • Turkey (Ankara). 16 years a Turkish teenager was challenged Tuesday for the murder D `an Italian catholic priest with Trabzon. The chain D `information NTV affirmed that, according to the first elements of L `investigation, the young man passed to the consents and indicated to have killed Sunday the priest because of these caricatures.

  • Pakistan (Peshawar). Demonstration: 5.000 demonstrators shouting “ draftsmen with the post ” with the call of the provincial Parliament, dominated by the islamist ones.

  • Pakistan (Kabul). Demonstration: Of the demonstrators ran up against the police force and the soldiers of NATO.

  • Yemen (Sanaa). Publication: the parquet floor of Sanaa orders the arrest of the editor and editor association of the weekly magazine Al-Hourriya , suspended by the authorities to have reproduced the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Afghanistan (Mazar-I-Sharif). Demonstration: Four Afghans were killed at the time of a demonstration, whose participants attacked a military camp of Norwegian troops of NATO in Maïmana (northern of Afghanistan).

  • Afghanistan. Demonstration: Two Norwegian soldiers were slightly wounded by jets of stones and glares of grenade in the attack of a quartering of Norwegian troops of NATO in the north of Afghanistan, announces the Norwegian staff.

  • Afghanistan. Demonstration: Five Norwegian soldiers and two Finnish soldiers were slightly wounded by jets of stones and glares of grenade in the attack of a quartering of troops of NATO in the north of Afghanistan, announces the Norwegian staff.

  • Afghanistan. Demonstration: It does not have there a casualty among the Finnish soldiers after the attack of the camp of the International force of assistance to safety (Isaf) with Maïmana, in the north of Afghanistan, according to a new assessment diffused by the Finnish ministry of Defense.

  • Afghanistan. The Norwegian government announces that six Norwegian soldiers were slightly wounded by stone jets and glares of grenade in the attack of the camp of Maïmana.

  • Syria (Damas). Demonstration: a demonstration in front of the embassy from France to Damas, to which had called anonymous posters placarded on walls of mosques, did not take place with 13:00 GMT.

  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstration: Of the demonstrators penetrates again in the enclosure of the embassy of the Denmark in Teheran, before coming out from it, while launching kingpins.

  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstration: Jets of stone on the embassy of Norway. Flag flaring. The main part of the demonstrators is recruited in the rows of the islamist Milice of the bassidjis, which is attached to the body of the Gardiens of the revolution, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic.

  • Jordan (Amman). Demonstration: Thousand people take part in a sit-in front of the seat of the Jordanian trade unions.

  • Indonesia. Demonstration: Of new demonstrations in Indonesia, where the flag Danish was still burned in public.

  • Filipino (Cotabato). Demonstration: Of the hundreds of Moslem demonstrators burns a flag Danish while calling with a boycott of the Danish products.

  • Niger (Niamey). Demonstration: Several thousands of people.

  • Nigeria (Kano). The State Nigerian of Kano cancels a contract of 23 million euros (27 million dollars) with a Danish firm for the importation of 70 buses.

  • Lebanon (Naqoura). Demonstration: Some 2.000 pupils and students of the Hezbollah are gathered in front of the seat of the Force of UNO.

  • Azerbaïdjan (Bakou). Demonstration: a hundred demonstrators in front of the Azerbaijani ministry of the Foreign affairs.

; Reactions

  • European Union (Brussels). The reactions to the publication of the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet by several newspapers will be with the day order of a roundtable which must gather persons in charge of the European commission and media in the next months. Source: Nouvel Observateur .
  • European Union (Brussels). The European commission estimates that the boycott is not " not a way appropriée" to regulate the problems, and " étudie" its reaction to the Iranian decision to suspend all the commercial exchanges with Denmark. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • OTAN.Bruxelles the attack of a Norwegian military camp of NATO Tuesday in Maïmana (northern of Afghanistan), during which four Afghans were killed, will not call into question the engagement of Alliance in this country nor its expansion in the south, ensured the spokesperson of the organization. Source: Nouvel Observateur .
  • OMC. Geneva. Pascal Lamy estimates that the calls to the boycotting of Danish products in the Muslim world do not constitute a violation of the rules of the World Trade organization.

  • the United States. The US president George W. Bush gives her support for Danish the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the crisis which Denmark passes through. Source: Nouvel Observateur.

  • Russia (Moscow). A Russian museum will expose the caricatures of Mahomet. Yury Samodurov, director of the Sakharov museum announced that it was going to publish the caricatures. " We must show with the whole world which Russia supports Europe, which freedom of expression is much more important for us than the dogmas of religious fanatics. ". The exposure should open to in March with like guest the French philosopher André Glucksmann and the French writer Michel Houellebecq which will give conferences on the Islamic Fondamentalisme. Source: Moscow museum to exhibit Mohammed cartoons, Cage, 08.02.06

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Denmark advises with its nationals to leave Indonesia. Source: Nouvel Observateur.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Danish the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen qualifies " crisis mondiale" demonstrations related to the publication of the caricatures and lance a call to the calm one. Source: Nouvel Observateur.

  • Norway (Oslo). Oslo Norwegian the Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg], declares that Norway will maintain its troops in Afghanistan. Source: Nouvel Observateur.

  • New Zealand (Wellington). The life of the New Zealanders is threatened by the decision of certain newspapers of the country to publish the caricatures of Mahomet, estimates the Prime Minister Helen Clark. Source: Nouvel Observateur.

  • Australia (Canberra). The Australian Minister for the Foreign affairs, Alexander Downer, condemns the violent demonstrations, while launching a call to the calm one. Source: Nouvel Observateur.

  • France (Paris). The National federation of the French press (FNPF) and trade union SNJ-CGT (journalists) call in separate official statements with the defense of freedom of the press. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • France (Paris). France reminds Syria that it him " belongs to ensure the sécurité" embassy from France to Damas in front of which a demonstration is organized. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • France (Paris). A network of basic committees of Mrap and several members of the direction of association require of their leading authority to withdraw his complaint against France Soir. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • France (Paris). The vice-chancellor of the Large Mosque of Paris Dalil Boubaker " respect the droit" and refuses to comment on the legal decision of débouter the Muslim organizations asking to seize the number of Charlie Hebdo .
  • France (Bobigny). The Union of Muslim associations of Seine-Saint-Denis (UAM 93) announces to have called, with several other Muslim associations of Ile-de-France, to express Saturday in Paris.
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  • Austria (Vienna) the leader of extreme right-hand side Austrian Jörg Haider suggests with the Austrian presidency of the EU inviting the Head of Libyan State Mouammar Kadhafi to try to defuse the crisis caused by the caricature publication of Mahomet. Source: Nouvel Observateur.

  • Tchéquie (Prague). The Czech Minister for the Foreign affairs, Cyril Svoboda, denounces like " inadéquat" the boycotting of the Danish products issued by several Moslem countries. Source: Nouvel Observateur.

  • Spain. The chief of the Spanish diplomacy, Miguel Angel Moratinos, in displacement in Athens, calls with a judgment " claire" violences.
  • Bulgaria (Sofia). The Bulgarian orthodoxe Church disapproves the caricature publication of Mahomet, judging that they constitute a " attack with the convictions religieuses" Moslems.
  • Croatia (Zagreb). The Croatian government regrets the publication by the weekly magazine Nacional of the 12 caricatures of Mahomet. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • Japan (Tokyo). The Japanese government launches a call to calm following the multiplication of the demonstrations. Source: Nouvel Observateur.

  • Chetchnia. The strong man of Chetchnia, Ramzan Kadyrov, announces that the Danish governmental organizations are prohibited as Chetchnia, where one of them works actively in the humane field. Source: Nouvel Observateur.

  • Jordan (Amman). A majority of Jordanian deputies presents a petition to the government to cancel the agreements with Denmark, Norway and New Zealand and to boycott their products, indicates the press. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • Iran (Teheran). The Iranian Supreme guide the ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounces the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet in the European press as being a " conspiracy sioniste". Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • Iran (Teheran) Teheran announces the suspension of all the economic links and commercial with Denmark.
  • Lebanon. Beirut the Lebanese Minister for the Interior by interim, Ahmad Fatfat, announces the arrest of 416 people, of which about half of not Libanais, following the riots which occurred Sunday in Beirut.
  • England (London). The moderate Moslems will organize Saturday in London a demonstration on the caricatures of Mahomet, intended for " to express the point of view of the majorité" , one learned near the organizers. Source: Nouvel Observateur.
  • Belgium (Brussels) a meeting of Moslems Tuesday evening announces a demonstration (with request for authorization of the police force) for Saturday. Among the people present at the meeting, several Belgian elected officials of Moroccan origin of the Socialist party (whose federal deputy Mohammed Boukourna, only socialist member of Parliament not to have voted a few weeks ago for the law on the adoption by the homosexual couples) and of Ecolo.

February 8th 2006

; Events

  • France (Paris) the direction of the satiric weekly Charlie Hebdo , which the special issue on Mahomet left Wednesday was exhausted in many sales outlets in midmorning, decides to carry out a new pulling of 160  000 specimens. At the time of a press conference, the director of the Philippe Val newspaper indicated that nearly 400.000 specimens had already been sold at the semi-day Wednesday, day of the publication of this special issue. Two reprintings were necessary, whereas Charlie Hebdo , which usually draws with 140  000 specimens, had envisaged a pulling of 160.000 specimens for this special issue. Source: Nouvel Observateur of the 08.02.06; '' Charlie Hebdo '' publishes the Danish caricatures of Mahomet: new pulling, AFP-YahooNews.08.02.06

  • France (Paris). The networks salafists French mobilize on Internet. The unauthorized demonstration of the Sunday, February 5 which had gathered more than one thousand of people, had prepared on Internet. Source: Figaro.08.02.06

  • Canada (Halifax). The professor Peter March of Sainte-Marie University of Halifax is obliged by the administration to withdraw the copies of the caricatures which it hung in his office. The professor was later the subject of a walk coed on the campus, and it received anonymous messages indicating that its actions will be able to have repercussions for the Canadians held as an hostage by the Islamic terrorists in Iraq.

  • Canada. The administration of the university of Prince Edward Island ordered the stop of the distribution on the campus of the student newspaper Cadre after the caricatures were republished in the newspaper. The authorities of the campus also tried to seize all 2.000 specimen of the number containing the caricatures.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Data-processing security experts declare that hundreds of Danish Internet sites were tackled these last days by hackers.

  • Swiss (Geneva). A person in charge Moslem woman calls with the boycott of “Tribune de Genève”. Source: Edicom.08.02.06

  • Algeria (Algiers). Publication: Of the persons in charge and the journalists of Algerian television is dismissed to have shown with the screen caricatures of the Mahomet prophet at the time of the tv news.

  • Indonesia (Djakarta). The persons in charge of the drafting of a magazine indonésien having reproduced the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet published in Occident are questioned by the police force. Abdul Wahad Abdi, editor association of the magazine " Peta " and another person in charge of the drafting were questioned by the authorities. Source: Nouvel Observateur of the 08.02.06. AP-Yahoo of the 08.02.06

  • Indonesia (Djakarta). Demonstrations: Of new demonstrations limited against the caricatures of Mahomet takes place in Indonesia, where a Moslem religious leader called with reserve. Source: Nouvel Observateur of the 08.02.06

  • Afghanistan (Qalat). Demonstrations: Ten people are wounded in the south of Afghanistan at the time of a demonstration against the publication in the European press of caricatures of Mahomet. Three people are killed in the south of Afghanistan in clashes with the police force at the time of a demonstration against the publication in the European press of caricatures of Mahomet. Source: Nouvel Observateur of the 08.02.06

  • Pakistan (Peshawar). Demonstrations: Some 3.000 people take part in the Pakistani tribal zone in a demonstration against the caricature publication and George W. Bush. Source: Nouvel Observateur of the 08.02.06

  • the West Bank (Hebron). Eleven Danes, members of the temporary international Presence in Hebron (TIPH), in the West Bank, leave the town of fear to be taken with part by the local population. Source: Nouvel Observateur of the 08.02.06

  • the West Bank (Hebron). Demonstrations: Some 300 Palestinians of which some threw stones, attack the offices of a mission of international observers. Source: Nouvel Observateur of the 08.02.06
  • the West Bank (Hebron). The mission of international observation in the West Bank decides to evacuate its buildings, taken for target by Palestinian demonstrators protesting against the publication of the caricatures of Mahomet.
  • the West Bank (Hebron). The few 60 European observers of the temporary international Presence in Hebron (TIPH), in the West Bank, leave the city after their buildings were taken for target by demonstrators.
  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstrations: Environ 200 people expressed in front of the embassies of Denmark and Great Britain.
  • Bangladesh (Dacca). More than one thousand of demonstrators against the caricatures of Mahomet burn Danish flags with Dacca. Source: Nouvel Observateur of the 08.02.06
  • Yemen (Sanaa). Publication: the Yemeni authorities announce the suspension of two weekly magazines. " Under the terms of the code of the press, the ministry for Information decided Wednesday to suspend Yemen Observer and Al-Spoke Al-Aam and to introduce their editors and editor associations to the parquet floor to have reproduced the offensive caricatures for the prophète."
  • Bosnia (Sarajevo). Demonstrations: 1.500 Bosnian Moslems express in front of the embassies of Norway, France and Denmark, burning flags.
  • Morocco. Strasbourg Of the Morrocans continue Denmark before the European Court of the Human rights, estimating that the publication of the caricatures violates the European Convention of the human rights. Source: Nouvel Observateur of the 08.02.06

  • Tunis. Honorary consulate from Denmark in Tunis closed following a telephone threat. AP-Edicom.08.02.06

; Reactions

  • the United States (Washington). George W. Bush press all governments to put an end to violences which burst and invites also the media to be responsible, at the time of a meeting with the king Abdallah II from Jordan in Washington.

  • the United States (Washington). The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shows Syria and Iran to have " incité" with anti-Western violences.
  • the United States. Caricatures on the holocaust: scandalized, the United States shows Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be the initiator about it. Washington was declared “scandalized” by the advertisement of the contest of caricatures on Shoa organized by the Iranian daily newspaper “Hamshahri”. “Any attempt to make fun or disparage some way that it is the horror which represented the holocaust is simply scandalous”, declared the spokesperson of the State Department, Sean McCormack, before allotting the responsibility for this initiative to the Iranian president. “One can almost hear the voice of the president Ahmadinejad in the proposal of this newspaper”. Source: European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center.

  • Canada (Montreal). The Canadian government condemns the reactions of violence which multiply in the Muslim world.

  • SOEC (Vienna). Vienna the SOEC calls at the end of unjustified violences. She wishes " to develop a common approach to promote the respect and the dialog mutuels" between religions.

  • European Union (Vienna) the President-in-Office of the European Union, the Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, denounces a " spiral of the provocations" after the launching of a international Contest of caricatures on the Holocaust.

  • European Union (Brussels). The High representative of the EU for the foreign politics Javier Solana announces that it will go the next week in " different pays" Arab world to try to alleviate the situation.

  • Germany (Berlin). The German Minister for the Foreign affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, qualifies “provocation” the international Concours of caricatures on the Holocaust.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The organizers of a Danish seminar of caricatures, envisaged from February 27th to March 3rd, announce its carryforward sine die .
  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Caricatures: The Danish editor is ready to publish the caricatures of the Holocaust. Source: Danish editor would publish Holocaust cartoons, AP-Jerusalem Post.08.02.06. Jyllands-Posten plans to publish caricatures of the Holocaust, AFP-LaCroix 08.02.06
  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Iraq and Afghanistan: the Danish information fears more violences against the Danish soldiers. Source: AFP it Croix.08.02.06
  • Denmark. (Copenhagen). Danes' “No” to Holocaust cartoons. The signal editor off the Danish newspaper whose cartoons off the Prophet Muhammad sparked insult throughout the Islamic world said He would not print Holocaust cartoons offered by year Iranian newspaper. Editor-in-Chief Carsten Juste said his newspaper Jyllands-Posten " in No circumstances will publish Holocaust cartoons from year Iranian newspaper." Prominent Iranian newspaper has said it would hold has competition for cartoons off one has the Holocaust to test whether the West extends the principle freedom off expression to the Nazi genocide ace it did to the Muhammad caricatures. Source: Times Online, Breaking News.

  • Italy (Rome). Roberto Calderoli, Italian minister, member of the party of the League of North, requires the use of the force against the Moslems and the intervention of the pope Benoît XVI. Source: New Observateur.08.02.06

  • Italy (Rome). Hamadi Redissi, professor of political sciences at the University of Tunis, in a maintenance published by It Giornale: " You should not give up the religious liberty and free critical. If you yield, it will be finished by it. All the pretexts will then be called upon. There will be no limite." Source: '' the Cross ''. 08.02.06

  • France (Paris). The deputy UMP of Paris Claude Goasguen denounces the organization " scandaleuse" contest of caricatures on the holocaust and speaks d'" a deeply aggressive step and belliciste" from Iran.

  • France (Paris). Paris the General trade union of the journalists Working force: " It is question of coming to a conclusion here about the quality of the caricatures, neither about the bottom, nor on the form. The debate relates only to the legitimacy of their publication. For the journalists of the SGJ-FO, it is clear that the answer is 'oui'".
  • France (Paris). Jacques Chirac “condemns” in the Council of Ministers “the manifest provocations likely to poke passions dangerously”.
  • France (Paris). Philippe Val, the director of Charlie Hebdo , is denied any provocation after the publication of the caricatures. He says himself “shocked” of the remarks of Jacques Chirac who condemned the provocations.
  • France (Paris). The deputy PS Jean Glavany considers that “parallel” done it by Jacques Chirac between the caricaturists and “those which launch fatwas” was “very serious” and “unbearable”. “It is very serious to put on the same plan of the caricaturists who use of their freedom of expression and those which launch fatwas in the name of the integrism and of the obscurantism”.
  • France (Paris). Boycotting of Danish products: " indignation" of the Douste-Blazy Foreign Minister near Crossroads. Source: '' the Cross ''. 08.02.06

  • Norway (Oslo). Caricatures of Mahomet: Norway protests formally at Syria after the fire of its embassy. Source: TF1Filnews

  • Norway (Oslo). About half of the Norwegians “more skeptics” with regard to Islam following the violent reactions say themselves today, aiming Norway in particular, which followed the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet, reveals a survey published Wednesday. Source: New Observateur.08.02.06
  • Norway (Oslo). The Norwegian government qualifies “very deplorable” withdrawal of Hebron (the West Bank) of the team of European observers.
  • Swiss (Geneva). The Swiss bishops denounce the “wounding” caricatures. “If the Declaration of the human rights envisages the right to freedom of thought and of expression, that does not imply the right to offend the religious feeling of the believers”, estimates the Conference of the Swiss bishops.

  • Russia. The Russian president Vladimir Poutine condemns the caricatures of Mahomet which “dig the schism between confessions” and estimates that Denmark owes " to ask pardon" , in an interview published by the Spanish press. Source: New Observateur.08.02.06

  • Israel (Jerusalem). The Israeli public radio announces that the majority of the Danish members of the temporary international Presence in Hebron (TIPH), in the West Bank, left the city or ceased patrolling there. Source: New Observateur.08.02.06
  • South Africa (Pretoria). The South-African government invites each one “to avoid the actions which could be interpreted like speeches of hatred”.

  • England (London). The British representatives of 650 mosques ask for a modification of the law on the press to prevent the British newspapers from publishing the caricatures

  • Afghanistan (Kabul). The Supreme court of Afghanistan and the religious Council of the oulémas invite the Afghans to put an end to the demonstrations.
  • Afghanistan (Kabul). A taliban military chief offers a premium of gold 100kg to any person who will assassinate one of the authors of the caricatures.
  • Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou). In a note of protest given to the ambassadress of Denmark, 155 Islamic associations of Burkina think “shocked” that it “is not about an error on the person of the prophet, but of an action of denigration coldly planned and carried out”.

  • Bulgaria (Sofia) the Bulgarian Moslems “are deeply upset and wounded” by the caricature publication of Mahomet, declares the large mufti of Bulgaria, Moustafa Hadji, which invites the faithful ones in parallel to be kept of any overflow.

  • Turkey (Ankara). A deputy under development Turkey, Vahit Kiler, member of the party of Justice and (AKP, resulting from islamist mobility, party in power) invites “all the Moslems” to boycott the Danish and Norwegian products. Source: New Observateur.08.02.06
  • Morocco (Reduction). The Moroccan ministry of the Interior folds back announces a “national walk” of protest on February 10th with Rabat.
  • Egypt (Cairo). A chief of Hamas estimates that the Western press “plays with fire” by publishing the caricatures

  • world Islamic League. The world Islamic League plans to carry felt sorry for in France following the publication in several newspapers of caricatures of the Mahomet prophet. Source: TF1 news.

February 9th 2006

; Events

  • European Union (Brussels). Publication: Free Frattini, European Commissioner with Justice and Safety, invites the press to consider the adoption of a code of conduct to avoid a republication of the crisis caused by the caricature publication of Mahomet.
  • the USA (New York). Publication: the chiefs of the drafting of New York Close , an alternate New Yorkean weekly magazine, resign to protest against the decision of the editors of the newspaper not to reproduce the caricatures.
  • Venezuela. Publication: the newspaper Venezuelan Últimas Noticias reproduces the caricatures of Charlie Hebdo .

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Publication: the Jyllands-Posten presents clearer excuses to the Moslems in a letter transmitted to the Algerian press of Thursday by the means of the embassy from Denmark in Algiers. The daily newspaper Jyllands Posten publishes on its Internet site the “new version” in Arab language of its letter of excuses to the Moslems. This second version takes again the terms of that which was transmitted to the Algerian newspapers. The excuses are there however clearer and more direct than in the version Arab of January 30th, like in the versions Frenchwoman, English and Danish also published by the newspaper.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Flemming Pink, person in charge of the culture section to the Jyllands-Posten and the origin of the publication of the caricatures, is sent on vacation by its newspaper for one unlimited duration.
  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The largest Danish tour operator Star Turn decides to cancel all his voyages towards Egypt and Morocco until the end of the season of winter, in April.

  • Egypt (Cairo). Publication: the ambassador of Denmark in Egypt, Bjarne Soerensen, indicates to the Danish news agency Ritzau that six of the twelve controversial caricatures of Mahomet had been published in the Egyptian newspaper Al Fagr on October 17th, without causing of polemic.

  • Germany (Berlin). Publication: the newspapers with German and Turkish high circulation figure, Bild and Hürriyet , publish a common call in the two languages requiring of the Christians and of the Moslems to show respect the ones towards the others.

  • Denmark. Publication: the Newspaper B.T reports that Bjarne Sørensen, the Danish ambassador in Egypt, confirms that the caricatures were published in an Egyptian newspaper Al fagr or El Fagr on October 17th, 2005. Source: (da) “Muhammed-tegninger trykt I Égypten allerede I oktober 2005”, B.T, 2006-02-09.

  • Egypt (Cairo). Publication: the Egyptian newspaper Al Fagr withdraws the one of its number containing the caricatures of its Web site. Source: “removed,” Al Fagr, 2005-10-17.
  • Indonesia (Jakarta). Demonstration: Environ 150 Moslem students indonésiens burn the Danish flag while inviting “to hang” the Danish nationals, at the time of a demonstration in front of the embassy of Denmark.
  • South Africa (the Cape). Demonstration: Several thousands of Moslems of South Africa express in the Cape to protest against the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet.

; Reactions

  • UNO (New York). Kofi Annan condemns, once again, violences antioccidentales after the caricature publication of Mahomet but affirms that there is no evidence of the implication of Damas and Teheran in these demonstrations.
  • the Council of Europe (Athens). The parliamentary Parliament of the Council of Europe must discuss in March in Paris of the business of the caricatures of Mahomet, indicates her president, Rene van der Linden, in visit in Athens.
  • Russia (Moscow). Vladimir Poutine calls the governments of the countries where proceeded violences “to control the situation as quickly as possible”.
  • the USA (Washington). George W. Bush does not have any intention to cancel its next voyage to Pakistan in spite of the protests of the Moslems against the caricature publication.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). A survey reveals that 58% of the Danes think that the Moslem religious leaders in Denmark take the first responsibility for the propagation of the conflict on the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet in the world arabo-Moslem.

  • Germany (Berlin). The Dutch deputy Ayaan Hirsi Ali colleague of the realizer assassinated Theo van Gogh declares that it was “correct to publish the caricatures” and that “the fury about the caricatures showed the fear within the artists and of the journalists in Europe to analyze or to criticize the intolerant aspects of Islam”. Source: (in) Dutch MP backs Muhammad cartoons,” BBC, 2006-02-09.
  • Norway (Oslo) the small Norwegian Christian periodical Magazinet, which had reproduced the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet, " thinks of measurements of reconciliation " with Norwegian Moslem persons in charge.

  • England (London). “These caricatures are a deliberated provocation” considers the group Moslem extremist Hizbi Tahrir in a filed in letter with the embassy from France to London, while requiring of the French government “to make pressure on the media so that they withdraw these shocking caricatures (…) and excuses present (…) ”.

  • Spain (Madrid). The chief of the Spanish government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero defers to February 15th a meeting initially envisaged Thursday with the leaders of Moslem main associations of Spain in connection with the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Spain (Madrid). The chief of the Spanish diplomacy Miguel Angel Moratinos, announces that he telephoned his Danish counterpart Per Stig Moeller and Iranian Manucher Mottaki, in order to try to alleviate the crisis caused by the publication in Europe of caricatures of Mahomet.

  • France (Paris). The Moslem intellectual Tariq Ramadan “stupid” judge, Thursday on RMC-Information, the attitude of Charlie Hebdo , contributing according to him “to develop an arm wrestling”, in a climate of “fear”.

  • France (Lille) the representatives of the catholic confessions, Jewish and Moslem woman of Lille denounce in a joint communiqué the " amalgams made by the caricatures against the Moslems ".
  • France (Paris). The maconnic organization Grand the East of France affirms that " is not needed; to compromise with the freedom of thought, expression and press " , and asks the application of the " principle of secularity ".
  • France (Paris). 54% of the French judge that the media were wrong to publish the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet, according to a survey SCUMS to appear Friday in the Cross . The without-religion are said largely favorable to this publication (58%) and the massively opposed Moslems (88%). This business causes a concern about possible “a rise of violences” for 78% of the French (94% for the Moslems).
  • France (Toulouse). Lionel Jospin], at a meeting of dedication of its book, estimates that, concerning the business of the caricatures of Mahomet, it would make " rather of the calls to the reason ".
  • France. From Washington. In a platform published in the Wall Street Journal , Bernard-Henri Levy invites to be held near the " Moslem moderate which only feels ".
  • France (Paris). Dominique Voynet, sénatrice of the Green , estimates that " it is neither with bearded, neither with the Imams, nor to the priests to make the policy of France, it is to the French citizens in their diversity ".
  • France (Paris). According to the specialist in Islam, Olivier Roy, these violent demonstrations are a handling of the Moslem countries to be avenged for the European countries.

  • Greece (Athens) the president of the International Socialist, Georges Papandreou, lance a call to a " use; responsable" freedom of expression.

  • Italy (Taormina) the demonstrations of anger which proceeded in many Moslem countries following the publication of the caricatures of Mahomet " does not have anything spontaneous " , the Italian Minister for Defense Antonio Martino affirms.
  • Poland (Gdansk). The historical leader of the Polish trade union Solidarity, Lech Walesa, firmly condemns the publication by the press European, and in particular Polish, of the caricatures.
  • the Vatican (Rome). The Italian cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino denounces " the arrogance" countries rich after the publication in Europe of caricatures of Mahomet.
  • the Vatican (Rome) the pope “is worried” by terrorism and by the wave of violences which ignites the Islamic world after the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet, Friday Laura Bush, the wife of the US president announces, at the conclusion of its audience with Benoît XVI.

  • Egypt (Cairo). The Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize of literature, Naguib Mahfouz, affirms to support the boycotting of the Danish products because " the world includes/understands only the language of the force ".

  • Qatar (Doha). The chief of the political office of the Palestinian islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Mechaal, proposes “to play a part to alleviate” the spirits.
  • Iran. From Prague the embassy from Iran to Prague requires an excuse of two Czech newspapers, Dnes and Hospodarske Noviny , for the publication at the beginning of February of controversial caricatures of the prophet Mahomet

  • Lebanon (Beirut). The chief of the Lebanese Hezbollah, sheik Hassan Nasrallah, requires “excuses” in the business of the caricatures and “a European legislation” prohibiting the “insults”.

  • Gabon. From Paris the Gabonese president Omar Bongo Ondimba says " interdependent with all the Moslems of the world ".
  • Tunisia (Tunis). The Tunisian Room of the representatives (senate) condemns the caricatures " attentatoires " with the Mahomet prophet and calls with the " dialog for the introduction of comprehension between the people ".

February 10th 2006

; Events
  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The ambassador from Denmark to Damas and his collaborators left Syria temporarily because the Syrian authorities reduced their protection to a low unacceptable level. The German diplomatic delegation undertakes their safety. The embassy will function since the capital of Jordan, Amman. Source: Nouvel Observateur; (in) " The embassy staff leaves Syria temporarily" , Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, 10.02.06

  • Croatia (Zagreb). Publication: a Croatian weekly magazine publishes twelve photographs of violent demonstrations in the Arab world against the publication in Europe of caricatures of Mahomet, affirming that these scenes were " humiliating for faithful truths musulmans".

  • Sweden (Stockholm). Publication: According to the newspaper Dagens Nyheter although the Swedish Foreign affairs and SÄPO obtained the closing of the Web site of the party " Democratic Swedes " (Sverigedemokraterna) after the opening of a contest with drawing and the publication of the caricatures, those are always accessible through their youth organization. Source: " Muhammedteckning ute trots nedstängning" , Dagens Nyheter, 10.02.06

  • Belgium (Brussels). Demonstration: 200 people express. A hundred people ravelled in the streets of the Belgian capital against the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet.

  • Holland ($the Hague). Demonstration: 150 young demonstrators of Maghrebian origin, old from 14 to 18 years, ravelled in Maastricht (south-eastern) and burned a Danish flag. It is about the first demonstration in the Netherlands against the caricatures of the prophet.

  • Ireland (Dublin). Demonstration: Environ 300 Moslems ravelled in the center of Dublin. The participants in the walk, which passed in front of the embassy of Denmark, belonged to the Muslim community of Irlande." the demonstration passed in front of the embassy without incident " , a spokesperson of the police force indicated.

  • Venezuela (Caracas). Demonstration: Caracas a group of about fifty Moslems and Venezuelans expressed in Caracas. The exclusively male procession, which carried signs proclaiming " the blasphemy is equal to terrorism " or vilifying George W. Bush US president, went, since the single mosque of the capital vénézuélienne, to the seat of the embassy of Denmark.

  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstration: an about sixty young Iranians threw stones and kingpins against the embassy of France , breaking almost all the panes of the frontage and causing a fire close to the grid of entry and in one of the rooms of the embassy. The Moslems protested " Died in France ". Source: (of) “Molotov-cocktails thrown At French embassy in Tehran”, Spiegel Online, 2006-02-10.

  • Indonesia (Jakarta). Publication: According to a police source, the editor association of the compressed tablet Peta was Friday at its fourth day of police custody to have published the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Filipino (Manila). Demonstration: Two hundred Moslems express in the very catholic capital of Philippines, Manila, against the caricature publication.

  • Egypt. Publication: (of Berlin) the last editions of the German weekly magazines X-ray and Der Spiegel , which reproduced part of the controversial caricatures of Mahomet, are prohibited of sale in Egypt, indicate the two draftings, whose first by a letter of protest the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak answered.

  • Egypt (Cairo). Demonstration: Of the hundreds of Egyptians in anger burns Danish flags and shows the president Hosni Mubarak to keep silence on the caricatures.

  • Kenya (Nairobi). Demonstration: Several thousands of Moslems ravel in the streets of Nairobi and burn Danish and American flags to express their anger against the caricature publication. Several thousands of Moslems ravelled in the streets of the Kenyan capital and burned a Danish flag and an American flag to express their anger against the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet by European newspapers. The Kenyan police force opened fire on hundreds of people, there is in the month a casualty. Source: (in) " Kenyan organizes opened fire”, Reuters, 2006-02-10.

  • Jordan (Amman). Demonstration: Amman Nearly 2.000 people expressed in Amman with the call of the Front of the Islamic action, the political branches of the (Muslim brothers in the kingdom hachémite.

  • India (New Dehli). Demonstration: Of the thousands of Moslem Indians expresses in New Delhi to protest against the publication of the caricatures, shouting " Died in Danemark" and burning flags of this country.
  • India (Bophal). Demonstration: 10.000 Moslems protest. Source: " Thousands awaits cartoon protests" , BBC.10.02.06

  • Pakistan (Islamabad). Demonstration: Some 4.000 demonstrators burned Danish flags and American by shouting " died in Denmark " and " died in America ". The rioters ransacked buildings and burned Danish cheeses. Source: " Thousands awaits cartoon protests" , BBC.10.02.06

  • Kirghizie (Bichkek). Demonstration: about fifty people expressed in Bichkek in front of the embassy of France." We know that the French newspapers reproduce caricatures of the Mahomet prophet. That deeply offends our honor and our religion " , one of the demonstrators declared.

  • Bangladesh (Dacca). Demonstration: Of the thousands of Bangladais and Moslem Indians expressed in Dacca and New Delhi to protest against the caricature publication.

  • Afghanistan (Kabul). Demonstration: 300 people, sometimes armed with sticks, ravelled in the streets of the Afghan capital. According to the special correspondent of BBC, Bilal Sarwary, safety is narrow and the police force prevented the demonstrators from attacking the American and Danish embassies. Source: " Thousands awaits cartoon protests" , BBC.10.02.06

  • Gaza Strip. Demonstration: the Islamic Jihad threatened of " to burn the ground under the pieds" authors of very future " attack " in Mahomet, at the time of a demonstration in Gaza against the caricatures.

; Reactions

  • NATO. Taormina (Italy) the general secretary of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, called Friday at the end of violences, at the conclusion of a meeting in Taormina, in Sicily, between the Ministers for the Defense of NATO and their counterparts or representatives of seven countries taking part in the " Dialog méditerranéen" alliance (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania, Jordan and Israel).

  • Norway (Oslo). The writer-in-chief of the Norwegian Christian magazine Magazinet , Vebjoern Selbekk, repeats that it " regret profondément" the offense made to the Moslems, made indignant by the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet, without however excusing for the publication itself.

  • Norway (Oslo). A vast majority of the probed people estimates that the media should not have published the disputed caricatures of the Mahomet prophet, according to a survey published in the newspaper Aftenposten.

  • France (Paris). The French Conseil of the Muslim cult (CFCM) announces to have decided to engage an legal action against the French newspapers having reproduced the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet.

  • France (Toulon). Dominique de Villepin affirmed that “the caricatures published recently” on the Mahomet prophet “do not appear responsible to him”.

  • France (Tunis). The ambassador from France to Tunis Serge Degallaix states to include/understand the emotion caused by the caricature publication, in an interview published by the newspaper the Daily newspaper in Tunis.,

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Ahmad Abu Laban, leader of the Islamic Company of Denmark, (Islamisk Trossamfund, shown to have incited with violence the Moslems, try to change image. He considers that Denmark is a country nice and tolerant and he asks that violences cease. He defies openly appointed it Dutch Ayaan Hirsi Ali. ,

  • Iran (Teheran). An important Iranian monk rented at the time of his sermon the " anger sainte" Moslems throughout the world after the publication of the caricatures and marked the United States to support the Western newspapers which published them.

  • Qatar (Doha). Youssef Al-Qardaoui, an influential monk qatariote of Egyptian origin, denounced the " débordements" of violence which took place during the demonstrations.

  • India (Delhi) an Imam of the mosque Jama Masjid, Ahmed Bukhari, declares " During 1.400 years, Islam fought its enemies démoniaques and now it will not be inclined in front of the satanic drawings of France, of Germany, of Norway and Danemark". " Islam and the Moslems were defied and we will not stop so much unless the nations which humiliated us are punished ". He asked the Indian government to ask excuses Denmark. Source: " Thousands awaits cartoon protests" , BBC.10.02.06

February 11th 2006

; Events

  • France (Paris). Demonstration: Some 7.200 Moslems expressed Saturday afternoon in Paris with the call of Muslim associations franciliennes, to protest against the publication of the caricatures of Mahomet. Many buckled women. Caricatures: the Parisian demonstration organized by several Muslim organizations gathered 7.200 people according to the Police force

  • France (Strasbourg). Demonstration: Some 2.000 Moslems expressed Saturday afternoon in Strasbourg. Many buckled women. Mahomet caricatures: more than 2.000 demonstrators of the Left the Moslems France in Strasbourg
  • France (Paris). The French federation of Islamic associations of the Antilles, Africa and the Comoros will seize the Magistrates' court of Paris in quotation against France-Evening
  • Denmark. Publication: the Newspaper B.T reports that Bjarne Sørensen, the Danish ambassador in Egypt, confirms that the caricatures were published in an Egyptian newspaper Al fagr or El Fagr on October 17th, 2005. Source: (da) “Muhammed-tegninger trykt I Égypten allerede I oktober 2005”, B.T, 2006-02-09.
  • Egypt (Cairo). Publication: the Egyptian Newspaper Al Fagr withdraws the one of its number containing the caricatures of its Web site. Source: “removed,” Al Fagr, 2005-10-17.
  • Indonesia (Jakarta). Demonstration: Environ 150 Moslem students indonésiens burn the Danish flag while calling with " pendre" Danish nationals, at the time of a demonstration in front of the embassy of Denmark.
  • South Africa (the Cape). Demonstration: Several thousands of Moslems of South Africa express in the Cape to protest against the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet.

; Reactions

  • UNO (New York). Kofi Annan condemns, once again, violences antioccidentales after the caricature publication of Mahomet but affirms that there is no evidence of the implication of Damas and Teheran in these demonstrations.
  • the Council of Europe (Athens). The parliamentary Parliament of the Council of Europe must discuss in March in Paris of the business of the caricatures of Mahomet, indicates her president, Rene van der Linden, in visit in Athens.
  • Russia (Moscow). Vladimir Poutine calls the governments of the countries where proceeded violences “to control the situation as quickly as possible”.
  • the USA (Washington). George W. Bush does not have any intention to cancel its next voyage to Pakistan in spite of the protests of the Moslems against the caricature publication.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). A survey reveals that 58% of the Danes think that the Moslem religious leaders in Denmark take the first responsibility for the propagation of the conflict on the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet in the world arabo-Moslem.

  • Germany (Berlin). The Dutch deputy Ayaan Hirsi Ali colleague of the realizer assassinated Theo van Gogh declares that it was " correct to publish the caricatures" and that " the fury about the caricatures showed the fear within the artists and of the journalists in Europe to analyze or criticize the intolerant aspects of Islam. Source: (in) Dutch MP backs Muhammad cartoons,” BBC, 2006-02-09.
  • Norway (Oslo) the small Norwegian Christian periodical Magazinet, which had reproduced the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet, " thinks of measurements of reconciliation " with Norwegian Moslem persons in charge.

  • England (London). " These caricatures are a provocation délibérée" consider the group Moslem extremist Hizbi Tahrir in a filed in letter with the embassy from France to London, by asking the French government " to make pressure on the media so that they withdraw these shocking caricatures (…) and excuses present (…)"

  • Spain (Madrid). The chief of the Spanish government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero defers to February 15th a meeting initially envisaged Thursday with the leaders of Moslem main associations of Spain in connection with the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Spain (Madrid). The chief of the Spanish diplomacy Miguel Angel Moratinos, announces that he telephoned his Danish counterpart Per Stig Moeller and Iranian Manucher Mottaki, in order to try to alleviate the crisis caused by the publication in Europe of caricatures of Mahomet.

  • France (Paris). Paris the Moslem intellectual Tariq Ramadan judge " stupide" , Thursday on RMC-Information, the attitude of Charlie Hebdo , contributing according to him “to develop an arm wrestling”, in a climate of “fear”.

  • France (Lille) the representatives of the catholic confessions, Jewish and Moslem woman of Lille denounce in a joint communiqué the " amalgams made by the caricatures against the Moslems ".
  • France (Paris). The maconnic organization Grand the East of France affirms that " is not needed; to compromise with the freedom of thought, expression and press " , and asks the application of the " principle of secularity ".
  • France (Paris). 54% of the French judge that the media were wrong to publish the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet, according to a survey SCUMS to appear Friday in the Cross. The without-religion are said largely favorable to this publication (58%) and the massively opposed Moslems (88%). This business causes a concern about possible a " rise of the violences" for 78% of the French (94% for the Moslems).
  • France (Toulouse). Lionel Jospin], at a meeting of dedication of its book, estimates that, concerning the business of the caricatures of Mahomet, it would make " rather of the calls to the reason ".
  • France. From Washington. In a platform published in the Wall Street Journal , Bernard-Henri Levy invites to be held near the " Moslem moderate which only feels ".
  • France (Paris). According to the specialist in Islam, Olivier Roy, these violent demonstrations are a handling of the Moslem countries to be avenged for the European countries.

  • Greece (Athens) the president of the International Socialist, Georges Papandreou, lance a call to a use “responsible” for freedom of expression.

  • Italy (Taormina) the demonstrations of anger which proceeded in many Moslem countries following the publication of the caricatures of Mahomet " does not have anything spontaneous " , the Italian Minister for Defense Antonio Martino affirms.
  • Poland (Gdansk). The historical leader of the Polish trade union Solidarity, Lech Walesa, firmly condemns the publication by the press European, and in particular Polish, of the caricatures.
  • the Vatican (Rome). The Italian cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino denounces " the arrogance" countries rich after the publication in Europe of caricatures of Mahomet.
  • the Vatican (Rome) the pope “is worried” by terrorism and by the wave of violences which ignites the Islamic world after the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet, Friday Laura Bush, the wife of the US president announces, at the conclusion of its audience with Benoît XVI.

  • Egypt (Cairo). The Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize of literature, Naguib Mahfouz, affirms to support the boycotting of the Danish products because " the world includes/understands only the language of the force ".

  • Qatar (Doha). The chief of the political office of the Palestinian islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Mechaal, proposes “to play a part to alleviate” the spirits.
  • Iran. From Prague the embassy from Iran to Prague requires an excuse of two Czech newspapers, Dnes and Hospodarske Noviny, for the publication at the beginning of February of controversial caricatures of the prophet Mahomet

  • Lebanon (Beirut). The chief of the Lebanese Hezbollah, sheik Hassan Nasrallah, requires " excuses" in the business of the caricatures and " a législation" European prohibiting the " insultes".

  • Gabon. From Paris the Gabonese president Omar Bongo Ondimba says " interdependent with all the Moslems of the world ".
  • Tunisia (Tunis). The Tunisian Room of the representatives (senate) condemns the caricatures " attentatoires " with the Mahomet prophet and calls with the " dialog for the introduction of comprehension between the people ".

February 12th 2006

; Events

  • Turkey (Istanbul). Demonstration: Some 150 demonstrators, members of the youth organization of an islamist and nationalist party (BBP, party of the great unit), launched stones and eggs against the consulate from France to Istanbul by shouting " Went-O-Akbar " , " revenge, revenge ". The Turkish police force deployed around the diplomatic mission located in the district of Istiklal, let make.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Denmark called upon Malaysia, president of the Organization of Islamic conference (OCI), in order to alleviate the anger caused in the Muslim world by the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Algeria (Algiers). Publication: the directors of two weekly magazines Algerian Arabic-speaking people were placed under committal order by a court of Algiers to have published caricatures of the Mahomet prophet.

  • Turkey (Istanbul). Demonstration: Of tens of thousands of Turks expressed in Diyarbakir (south-eastern) while in Istanbul (north-western) of others burned the flag Danish and launched stones on the consulate of France.

  • Kenya (Nairobi). Publication: the most important press group of Kenya is on television excused to have shown the caricatures whereas a group of young Moslems in anger threatened to invest its buildings in Nairobi.

  • the West Bank (Nablus). Jewish settlers extremists registered insults against the Mahomet prophet on a mosque in a village of the north of the West Bank.

  • Jordan (Amman). Publication: the Jordanian legal authorities released in bond two editor associations.

  • Yemen (Sanaa). The Yemeni Parliament invites with the boycotting of the products of the European countries whose press published the caricatures, in order to bring the governments of these countries to " excuser" for these drawings considered insulting.

Reactions

  • UNO (Copenhagen). The general secretary of the UNO, Kofi Annan, calls, on television Danish, with the de-escalation in the business of the caricatures of Mahomet, and with the abandonment of the “diplomacy of the loud-hailer”.

  • the USA (Washington). Condoleezza Rice prevented that the leaders who encourage the violent demonstrations were likely to lose the control of the situation.

  • England (London). Survey 63% of the British estimate that “the Moslems in Great Britain cannot cohabit peacefully with other religions” and that “the tensions will worsen”, according to a survey in the Sunday Times .

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The twelve caricatures of Mahomet will be used in material of secondary education, and a Danish museum does not exclude to expose them one day.

  • Denmark. From Washington, Certain countries like Iran and Syria benefitted from the polemic around the publication of the caricatures to divert the attention on their own problems, affirms Danish the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on CNN.

  • Swiss (Bern). The Swiss Minister for the Foreign affairs Micheline Calmy-Rey called with more respect towards the Moslems, estimating that freedom of expression had limits.

  • Portugal (Lisbon). A championship of football between Arab and European countries could contribute to improve of the relations obscured by the crisis caused by the caricature publication, considers the Minister Portuguese for the Foreign affairs Diogo Freitas C Amaral.

  • Libya. From Berlin the Head of Libyan State Mouammar Khadafi estimates that the people who publish the caricatures are “infidels” which spread hatred, in an interview with the German regional newspaper Neue the Ruhr Zeitung , in which it also blames the school systems in Europe.

  • Indonesia (Jakarta). The government indonésien indicated to regret the rapid departure of Indonesia of the Danish diplomats after the demonstrations and the threats uttered against Denmark this week in the archipelago.

  • Saudi Arabia (Djeddah). The general secretary of the the Arab League, Amr Moussa, declared that the East and the Occident were to work together to extinguish the “malevolent flame” of the crisis started by the caricature publication.

February 13rd 2006

; Events

  • France (Paris). France calls “with vigilance” the people going in nine countries of the Middle East, in particular to Saudi Arabia where it is disadvised going.

  • France (Paris). France shows Iran not “not to have ensured a sufficient protection” of its embassy Teheran at the time of a demonstration Friday, and announces that she convenes the Iranian person in charge in Paris.

  • France (Paris). Publication: Newspaper France Soir : new time for the deposit of the offers.

  • Canada (Montreal). Publication: the Western Standard , a semi-monthly published in the province of Alberta which draws with some 40.000 specimens, published Monday of the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet. The majority of the large Canadian newspapers abstained from some.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Danish the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen invites the representatives of a new association " democratic Moslems " with a discussed meeting, because it excludes the marked Imams to be the persons in charge of the current crisis.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The owner of a Danish local radio, who had invited to drive out the Moslems of Western Europe, condemned to 14 days of suspended sentence for racism by a court of Copenhagen.

  • Germany (Düsseldorf). A school of art of Düsseldorf (western of Germany) withdraws from one of its exposures, following threats, a sculpture carried out by one of its coeds who represented a mosque equipped with minarets in the shape of missiles.

  • Argentinian (Buenos Aires). Publication: the Argentinian weekly magazine Noticias publishes four of the twelve controversial caricatures of the Mahomet prophet, within the framework of an article on international pages.)

  • Saudi Arabia (Djeddah). The High representative of the EU for the foreign politics, Javier Solana, discusses with the general secretary the Organization the Islamic conference (OCI), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglun.

  • Pakistan (Peshawar). Demonstration: 4.000 demonstrators protest against the publication of the caricatures and are dispersed by the Pakistani police force with teargas.

  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstration: Of the hundreds of Palestinian schoolboys expresses in Hebron, in the West Bank, against the caricatures.

  • Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) Lebanese the Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, examines in Riyadh with Javier Solana, High representative of the European Union for the foreign politics, measurements to prevent attacks against the consulate from Denmark in Beirut set fire to at the beginning of February.

; Reactions

  • European Union (Vienna). The Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, President-in-Office of the European Union, condemns the publication of a first caricature on the Holocaust.

  • SOEC (Vienna). SOEC will bring together Thursday its Mediterranean partners like its rapporteurs on the tolerance and freedom of the press so “alleviating the discord”, announces the organization.

  • France (Paris). The business of the caricatures of Mahomet “will leave some traces”, positive for the French Conseil of the Muslim cult but negative for the place of the religion in the public life, on RTL the archbishop of Paris Mgr André Vingttrois estimates.

  • France (Paris). The Union of Muslim associations of the Seine-Saint-Denis (UAM 93) is pleased with the “big hit” of the demonstration against the caricatures of Mahomet in which took part, according to its estimates, 20  000 people Saturday in Paris (7  200 according to the police force).

  • Tchéquie. From Tunis Czech the Prime Minister, Jiri Paroubek, travels to Tunisia, decides for “the respect of the religious liberties” and regrets from there violence in the business of the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Saudi Arabia (Djeddah) " It is important and necessary for the Muslim world and Europe to have relations fortes" in spite of the crisis around the caricatures of Mahomet, the high representative of the European Union for the foreign politics Javier Solana declares, after discussions with Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, general secretary of the Organization of Islamic conference (OCI).

February 14th 2006

; Events
  • UNO (Geneva). 57 Moslem countries filed in with UNO a text project aiming at prohibiting intolerance against the religions.

  • Morocco (Casablanca). Demonstration: a hundred people take part in a sit-in front of the seat of the Weekly Journal which had reproduced, but barred of black, the caricatures.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad). Demonstration: Of the hundreds of schoolboys and high-school pupils Pakistani expressed in school costume, with the cries of “ died in Denmark ”. They were dispersed by the police force with the accesses of the district of the embassies.

  • Pakistan (Lahore). Demonstration: Several restaurants of American frankness are attacked and the burned vehicles. Two people are killed by balls.

  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstration: around fifty the islamist ones attacked with blow of kingpins, stones and large detonators the embassy of Germany, of Great Britain

  • Kurdistan (Erbil). Demonstration: Several thousands of islamist Kurdish.

; Reactions

  • European Union. From Copenhagen, the president of the European commission Jose Manuel Barroso defends Denmark, affirming with the Danish press that " freedom of expression is not négociable".

  • Austria (Vienna). The International institute of the press (IPI) estimates that the " freedom éditoriale" is priority and asks the politicians to defend this principle when they call with the calm one.

  • Finland (Helsinki) Finnish the Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen is excused for the offense made to the Moslems by the Monday publication of caricatures of the Mahomet prophet in his country on an Internet site of extreme right-hand side.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The Danish Minister for Defense, Soeren Gade, rejects the call of the Council of the governorship of Al Basra (southern of Iraq) which claims the withdrawal of the Danish troops of this province.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Danish the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen announces that it will ask the Iraqi government to make a clear decision as for the maintenance of the Danish troops in Iraq.

  • Italy (Rome) the Italian Minister for the Reforms Roberto Calderoli, member of the direction of the League of north, announces that it is to make Tee-shirt representing the caricatures.

  • France (Paris). The masonic organization " Female Big room of France " (GLFF) expresses its indignation vis-a-vis the “support brought by governments and the majority of the churches and their representatives for those which call some with the murder” in the business of the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • France (Marseilles). The former large mufti of Marseilles, Soheib Bencheikh, declared himself opposed " with any legal action or manifestation" against the publication of the caricatures. According to him " freedom of expression is sacrée".

  • Canada (Ottawa). Canadian the Prime Minister Stephen Harper regrets the caricature publication by an influential magazine of the Canadian west.

  • Iraq (Al Basra) the Council of the governorship of Al Basra, in the south of Iraq, claims the withdrawal of the Danish troops of the province, until the government of Copenhagen present of the excuses at the Moslems.

  • Iran (Teheran). A foundation related to the Iranian State indicates that the fatwa issued by the Imam Khomeiny which condemns to dead the British writer Salman Rushdie, author of the satanic Versets , will remain " éternellement" into force.

  • Egypt (Cairo). Egypt invites the European Union to support a resolution with UNO to protect the religious symbols, at the time of a visit in Cairo of the high representative of the EU for the foreign politics, Javier Solana.

  • Morocco (Reduction). The Weekly Journal shows the Moroccan State and the public mediums to want to make it conceal and throw it in grazing ground with popular vindication about the caricatures.

February 15th 2006

; Events

  • the USA (Champaign). Publication: Two writers of a studying newspaper of the university of Illinois, in the United States, were suspended to have published the caricatures. Two writers of a newspaper studying in the United States suspended to have published the caricatures of Mahomet. Two writers of a studying newspaper of the university of Illinois, in the United States, were suspended to have published caricatures of Mahomet. Editor association Acton H. Gorton said Tuesday “very disappointed” of the decision of the editor to suspend it, as well as the writer of the pages discusses Charles Prochaska, for two weeks while waiting for the results of an internal survey. The editor Mary Cory and the general writer Shira Weissman did not comment on this decision, but a leading article of the Daily Illini , independent of the university but directed by students, was sorry the Muslim community, without to estimate that it was inappropriate to publish these caricatures. According to this leading article, the two suspended writers would have however published six of the 12 Danish caricatures without putting at the current the remainder of the drafting.

  • Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur). Publication: One learns that Malaysia made close for two weeks a daily newspaper which had published photo containing one of the caricatures.

  • Indonesia (Djakarta). The importers indonésiens announce to have begun a boycotting of the Danish products.

  • Filipino (Manila). Demonstration: Six hundred Moslems expressed burning Danish flags in front of the representation of the country.

  • Pakistan (Tank). Demonstration: 2000 people. The Pakistani police force announces that demonstrators put fire at about thirty shops CD, DVD and video cassettes. in Tank, in the North-West of Pakistan, 230 km of Peshawar.

  • Pakistan (Peshawar). Demonstration: 70.000 people. the local police indicates that demonstrators set fire to a restaurant of American frankness Kentucky Fried Chicken, two cinemas and tens of vehicles. Violences made two died. For the third consecutive day, the police officers Pakistani had to resort Wednesday to the bludgeons and the teargas grenades to disperse crowd protesting At least 16 wounded among the police officers and the demonstrators. A shot was heard close to a KFC restaurant put at bag and set fire to by crowd, these witnesses declared. The demonstrators, 5000, were caught some with several local subsidiary companies or signs which seemed to them to testify to a foreign presence and set fire to several tens of vehicles. A restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken and two cinemas were thus burnt just as a shop of mobile telephony of the Pakistani company Mobilink, the rioters probably aiming the Norwegian company Telenor, important mobile telephone operator in the country. The anti-riot police force made use of teargas grenades to disperse crowd. A 28 year old man was electrocuted by an electric cable and a 8 year old child was killed out of a ball in the head. At least 30 wounded whose “four or five in a serious condition” according to a medical source, were brought in the hospitals.

  • Turkey (Istanbul). The Armenian patriarch Mesrob II announces that the unknown ones drew against an orthodoxe church with Kayseri in Turkey and that the incident is related to the crisis caused by the caricature publication of Mahomet.

; Reactions

  • European Union (Strasbourg). Message of the representatives of the political independent groups of the European Parliament and the EU. " Freedom of expression is an invaluable good. But its exercise supposes the responsibility for the individu" , in the name of the Austrian presidency of the EU the secretary of foreign affairs Hans Winkler underlines, specifying that there were " limits with this freedom, in particular when it wounds the feeling religieux".

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The editor association of the Jyllands Posten , which published in first the controversial caricatures of Mahomet, warns against the granting in the newspapers of a particular treatment for the Moslems.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Danish the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen estimated Tuesday which the polemic caused by the caricatures of Mahomet constituted “more the big challenge of foreign politics that Denmark knew since the Second world war”.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen) the Danish Minister for the Foreign affairs, Per Stig Moeller, affirms that the Iraqi government always wishes the presence of Danish soldiers in Iraq.

  • Brazil (Porto Alegre). Aram Ier, president of the Central committee of the World Council of Churches, “essential” judge reinforcement of the interreligieux dialog, in particular between Christians and Moslems, after the business of the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • the West Bank (Hebron). The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas asks the international observers to return to Hebron, and guarantees their safety after the attack of their offices last week following the business of the caricatures of Mahomet.

February 16th 2006

; Events

  • European Union (Vienna). The meeting between the EU, Denmark and of the Moslem dignitaries Syrian and Bosnian to defuse the crisis leads only to the transmission of a “signal” in favor of the dialog of the cultures.

  • European Union (Vienna). In Ramallah the High representative of the European Union for the foreign politics, Javier Solana, discusses with Palestinian leaders, about the controversial caricatures of the Mahomet prophet.

  • the Vatican. The pope Benoît XVI receives in private audience Lebanese the Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, with which it discusses the consequences of the publication of the caricatures of Mahomet in the Moslem countries.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Demonstration: Of the thousands of Dane sent messages of excuses and of friendship to the Muslim world a person in charge of the http://www.anotherdenmark.org site indicates.

  • Poland (Warsaw). Publication: the Polish parquet floor opens an investigation to check if the recent publication in the press in Poland of caricatures of Mahomet and a photomontage of the singer Madonna as a Holy-Virgin constitutes an offense.

  • Russia (Moscow). Publication: the authorities of Volgograd (on the Volga) announce to have closed the publisher Volgograd-Information and its newspaper Gorodskie Vesti which had published, on February 9th, a drawing representing the Mahomet prophet in particular.

  • Pakistan (Karachi). Demonstration: According to a last assessment, some 35  000 Moslems express against the publication of the caricatures. The police force re-examines with the rise the number of demonstrators who ravel in the streets of Karachi, estimated with 40  000. More 20  000 people express against the publication in Europe of caricatures of Mahomet, in Karachi, more the big city of Pakistan, where the army was deployed after violences of the beginning of the week which made five died in Pakistan.

  • Pakistan. Two Imams of Oslo go to Pakistan to try to alleviate there the anger of the demonstrators anti-caricatures of Mahomet who were caught some with the buildings of the Norwegian group of télécoms Telenor at the time of violences which made five died in two days, according to newspaper VG.

  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstration: Of the islamist students expresses in front of the embassy from Germany to Teheran to protest against the position of Berlin vis-a-vis the Iranian nuclear fill and the controversial caricatures of the prophet of Mahomet Islam.

  • Iraq (Copenhagen). The Iraqi government officially asked Denmark to maintain its military presence in Iraq, indicates the Danish ministry of the Foreign affairs.

  • Iraq (Copenhagen). Iraqi police officers refused to receive a training with security operations given by Danish soldiers indicate a Danish military source.

  • Egypt (Cairo). Of the Danish Christian monks are able to try to alleviate anger in the Moslem countries.

; Reactions

  • European Union (Strasbourg). The European Parliament adopts a resolution which pleads for a exercise responsible for freedom of expression, while expressing its solidarity with the journalists having reproduced in the Arab world the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • the Vatican (Vatican City). At the conclusion of a meeting with Lebanese the Prime Minister, the pope Benoît XVI estimates that to in no case freedom of expression does not have to constitute " a breach of liberty of the autres" in reference to the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Italy (Rome) the Italian Minister for the Reforms Roberto Calderoli, who praises himself to carry under his shirt a Tee-shirt with the caricatures is made recall to the order by the chief of the Italian diplomacy Gianfranco Fini. The Italian Minister for the Reforms Roberto Calderoli (League of North) watch with the tv news which it carries a Tee-shirt of the caricatures under his shirt. Source: TF1.

  • Russia (Moscow). The Russian Minister for the culture, Alexandre Sokolov, request with the local mediums to abstain from publishing things which could insult religious feelings, threatening the contraveners of sanctions.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen) the Danish Federation of football announces that several players of the Danish team of football are worried with the idea to play a friendly match on March 1st in Israel, after the tensions caused in the Middle East by the caricatures of Mahomet.

February 17th 2006

; Events

  • the United States (New York). A group of islamist protest in front of the consulate of Denmark.

  • Portugal (Lisbon). Publication: a famous Portuguese caricaturist, Augusto Cid, announces its participation in the contest of caricatures on the Holocaust launched by the daily newspaper Hamshahri of Teheran.

  • Denmark. Islamabad the embassy of Denmark closes its doors.

  • Egypt. The Egyptian ambassadress in Denmark, Mona Omar Attia, was replaced and sent in South Africa.

  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstration: Of the Iranian sunnites burned a cross in front of the embassy from Denmark in Teheran to protest against the publication of the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet.

  • the West Bank (Hebron). Demonstration: Nearly two hundred Palestinians expresses against the caricatures after the Moslem prayers.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad) Pakistan points out its ambassador of Denmark.

  • Pakistan (Multan). Demonstration: the Pakistani police force challenges 125 people who intended to express against the caricatures, in violation with the prohibition of the demonstrations in the east of the country.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad). Demonstration: the Pakistani police force is placed in alarm to prevent any incident at the time of multiple demonstrations envisaged after the great prayer.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad). The founder of the islamist group prohibited Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hafiz Saeed, was placed under house arrest in prevention of new violences at the time of demonstrations announces his party.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad). Pakistan recalls its ambassador to Denmark for consultation.

  • Pakistan (Peshawar). A Moslem monk offers a reward of 1,5 million rupees (14.061 euros) and a car with whoever would assassinate one of the caricaturists of Mahomet. Whereas the violent demonstrations in Pakistan made five died and that more than one hundred of people were stopped, Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, preacher of the mosque of Mohabat Khan, in Peshawar, promised a reward of 1,5 million rupees (approximately 14.000 euros) and a car with that which would assassinate one of the caricaturists of Mahomet. He added that an association of jewellers would add a million dollars to this reward. This announced was made in front of the mosque after the prayers of Friday, at the conclusion which a Danish flag and an effigy of Danish the Prime Minister were flarings.

  • Bangladesh (Dacca). Demonstration: Plus of 5.000 Bangladais express to protest against the publication of the caricatures.

  • Israel (Jerusalem). New insults against the Mahomet prophet were discovered on the walls of a mosque in a Palestinian village of the West Bank, indicates an officer of the Israeli army.

  • Hong-Kong (HongKong). Demonstration: Of the thousands of Moslems expresses towards the local office of Office of the High Commission to the refugees of the United Nations.

  • Tanzania (Dar be-Salaam). Demonstration: Environ 5.000 Moslems express in the economic capital of Tanzania.

  • Libya (Rome). Demonstration: a violent demonstration made up of a thousand of Moslems and which was dispersed by the Libyan police force took place in front of the Italian consulate of Benghazi in the east of Libya to protest against the caricatures, indicates the Italian ministry of the Foreign affairs.

  • Libya (Tripoli). Demonstration: Libyan official television announces the death of several people in confrontations between the Libyan police force and of the demonstrators, of which some set fire to part of the building sheltering the Italian consulate with Benghazi.

; Reactions

  • SOEC (Vienna). Miklos Haraszt, representing SOEC for the freedom of the media, declared in a report/ratio a “ distorts interpretation ” caricatures of the Mahomet prophet published in Denmark, which are not an attack against Islam and which cause a “ climate of intimidation ”.

  • France. The leader-writer of the Barber , Ivan Rioufol, denounces ““ Europe of Capitulards ” which would be ready to sacrifice its freedom of expression to calm the islamist ones.

  • Norway. Of Moscow, the chief of the Norwegian diplomacy , Jonas Gahr Stoere, again said to regret “ if the believers (Moslem) feel humiliated ”, adding that the publication of the caricatures by Norwegian media “ does not express the position of the Norwegian government, nor of the Norwegian people ”.

  • Italy. The chief of the Italian diplomacy Gianfranco Fini will receive on February 23rd of the ambassadors of Moslem countries to discuss with them the crisis.

  • Pakistan. The former American president critical Bill Clinton publication of the caricatures at the time of a meeting with the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf.

February 18th 2006

; Events

  • Sweden (Stockholm). Publication: the weekly magazine Stockholms Fria Tidning publishes their clean caricatures of Mahomet with Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Baqir Al-Sadr, Mohammad Lawal, Haji Kher Muhammed, Muhammad Mahdi Al-Salih and Amir Mohammed Rasheed…

  • France (Montpellier). Demonstration: Between 1  700 and 2  000 people according to the police force, 2  500 with 3  000 according to the organizers, express in calm Saturday in Montpellier.

  • England (London). Demonstration: Plus of 10.000 demonstrators denounces the publication of the caricatures. Thousands of Moslems took part in the most important demonstration organized in the British capital since the beginning of the business of the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Germany (Duisbourg). Some 3  500 people express in Duisbourg against the publication of the caricatures.

  • Libya (Tripoli). Demonstration: Eleven people, whose four Egyptians and Palestinians, were killed and 35 wounded at the time of the violent demonstration in front of the Italian consulate of Benghazi, announces Seïf Al-Islam Kadhafi, the son of the Libyan leader. Source: Nouvel Observateur

  • Libya (Tripoli). The Libyan Minister for Safety, Nasr Mabrouk, was suspended of his functions and was translated in front of an examining magistrate, according to an official source.

  • Pakistan (Multan). Four people were wounded Saturday, February 18 in Pakistan when the police force opened fire against demonstrators who tried to set fire to banks and other buildings with Chiniot, in the east of the country, according to the police force.

  • India (Lucknaw). A Moslem Minister for the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh offered 510 million rupees (11,5 million dollars) of reward with which would obtain the head of one of the authors of the caricatures of Mahomet, reports the Indian press. Source: Nouvel Observateur

  • Nigeria (Borno). In the town of Maiduguri (north-western) to Moslem majority 15 Christians were assassinated and eleven burned churches, as well as stores plundered at the time of a demonstration against the caricatures. Among the victims a catholic priest and 3 children are. Demonstrations Saturday in two cities of the north of Nigeria have fact 24 died and 230 wounded, according to a new established assessment by the Red Cross Nigerian. The assassinated priest, P. Michael Gajere was cleaned Holy-Rita parish of Maiduguri.,

  • Nigeria (Katsina). The violences also made a death and two wounded in the State de Katsina.

; Reactions

  • Italy (Rome). The Italian Minister for the Reforms Roberto Calderoli (Ligue of North) who declared himself ready to present his resignation but provided that Islam makes a gesture of appeasing, presents its resignation without condition on the insistence of Silvio Berlusconi.

  • Italy (Rome). The Head of the Italian State Carlo Azeglio Ciampi invites the members of the government directed by Silvio Berlusconi to make watch of " behaviors responsables" in the international crisis caused by the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Italy (Rome). The chief of the Italian diplomacy Gianfranco Fini announces his decision to go to the mosque of Rome to try to alleviate the tensions caused in the Muslim world by the offensive declarations for the Islam of the minister Roberto Calderoli, of which he asked the resignation.

  • Italy (Rome). The chief of the Italian government, Silvio Berlusconi, discussed with Mouammar Kadhafi and obtained from the Libyan leader the insurance that the anti-Italian demonstrations with Benghazi will not have consequences on the relations between the two countries.

  • Holland. Close half of the Netherlanders a confrontation between the Muslim world and the Occident fears, after the violent protests caused by the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet, according to a survey of Dutch institute R&M Matrix.

  • Libya (Tripoli). The demonstration and the fire of the consulate of Italy with Benghazi " will not have négatifs" effect; on the relations between Italy and Libya, the Libyan Minister for the Foreign affairs Abdel Rahman Shalgham affirms, according to the embassy from Italy to Tripoli.

  • Libya (Tripoli). The declarations “provocantes and outrageantes” against the Islam of the Italian Minister for the Reforms Roberto Calderoli are responsible for the demonstration for against the consulate of Italy, affirms the Fondation Kadhafi in an official statement. Police repression makes eleven dead among the demonstrators.

  • Iran (Teheran). The Iranian authorities ordered with the security forces to make “their possible” to prevent the attacks against the foreign embassies in Iran, indicates the Minister of Interior Department Mostafa For-Mohammadi quoted by the press.

February 19th 2006

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  • Canada (Toronto). Demonstration: 2.500 islamist expresses against the caricatures. A counter-demonstration is organized by a hundred moderate Moslems calling with the stop of the demonstrations.

  • Turkey (Istanbul). Demonstration: Of tens of thousands of Moslems met Sunday in Istanbul with the call of the party of Happiness (SP, islamist) to protest against the publication of the caricatures. The slogans attack Denmark, the United States and Israel.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad). Demonstration: the Pakistani security forces drew from teargases to disperse hundreds of Moslems gathered with Islamabad, in spite of the prohibition of this demonstration. The security forces buckled the Pakistani capital Islamabad after the prohibition of one demonstration to the call of islamist parties.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad). The Pakistani police force proceeded to raids in three cities of the country on Saturday night, proceeding to hundreds of interpellations and house arrests to try to prevent the great demonstration envisaged in the day with Islamabad.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad). Demonstration: 15.000 Moslems protested against the caricatures with slogans like: " O God gives me courage to kill the blasphemers "

  • Pakistan (Sukkur). 400 Moslems attacked, plundered and set fire to Sunday a church with Sukkur.

  • Indonesia (Jakarta). Demonstration: 200 to 400 members of an islamist radical group indonésien made the seat of the American embassy in Jakarta, to protest against a representation of Mahomet being in American Supreme court. With wood bars and stones they tried to smash the doors. They burned the American flag and a poster representing president Bush and showed Washington to have organized the publication of the caricatures of Mahomet to try to discredit Islam. Approximately 200 demonstrators belonging to the Front of the Defenders of Islam (FPI) attacked the American embassy in Djakarta, while launching tomatos, eggs and stones against the building and breaking several panes. They intended to protest against the publication of the caricatures of the prophet but also against the presence at the supreme court of the United States of a sculpture representing Mahomet. “It is not the last warning. It is only the first. There will be other more important actions against them”, declared one of the leaders of the FPI at the conclusion of the demonstration.

  • Morocco (Nador). Demonstration: Of tens of women islamist expressed in Nador in Morocco, against the publication of the caricatures of Mahomet to the call of radical association Al Adl Wal Ihssane (Justice and benevolence, not recognized).

  • Iran (Teheran). The best caricature on the holocaust will be rewarded by a price for 12.000 dollars, announced Internet site of the House of the caricature of Iran, associated with the Hamshahri daily newspaper for an international contest of caricatures on the holocaust of the Jews.

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  • England (London). A survey carried out by the Daily Telegraph reveals that 40% of the Moslems want the application of Charia in England.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The Danish ambassador in Pakistan will return temporarily to Denmark, announces the Danish ministry of the Foreign affairs.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten denies to have published excuses in the Arab newspapers.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Flemming Pink the editor of the Jyllands-Posten does not chew its words by giving the reasons of the publication of the caricatures and by condemning the attacks of islamist against freedom of expression.

  • Nigeria (Kano). The general secretary of the Supreme council Nigerian of the Islamic businesses, main organization Moslem of the country, condemned the rioters who tackled Saturday of the Christians, killing 15 people.

  • Egypt (Cairo). The Egyptian Minister for the religious Goods, Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, estimated Sunday " normal " reaction of the Moslems to the publication of the caricatures of Mahomet, during a maintenance in Cairo with a delegation of Danish monk.

February 20th 2006

Events

  • Denmark (Cophenague). Denmark shows Egypt to have started again the polemic on the caricatures." Egypt played a crucial role these last months in the flashover of the topicality around the Danish caricatures of Mahomet " Saturday, February 18 Per Stig Moeller, the Danish Minister for the Foreign affairs declared.

  • Guinea-Bissau (Bissau). Publication: an independent newspaper bissau-Guinean, Diario de Bissau , takes again the caricatures, and starts the judgment of a Moslem person in charge of the country which qualified this step of “provocation”.

  • Saudi Arabia (Riyadh). Publication: the Saoudi authorities prohibit the newspaper Shams which published the caricatures with an aim of accentuating the countryside against Denmark.,

  • Afghanistan (Jalalabad). Demonstration: Nearly 2.000 Afghan students expressed against the caricatures of Mahomet published by the European press, by inviting the Moslem countries to break their bonds with Denmark.

  • Nigeria (Gombe). The State de Gombe, in the north of Nigeria, prohibited the behavior of a demonstration organized by Moslems who wished to protest against the publication in Europe of caricatures of the Mahomet prophet.

  • Saudi Arabia. Part of the Saoudi media published the text of excuses of the Jyllands-Posten following the publication of the caricatures of Mahomet.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad) the Pakistani authorities raised the house arrest of the chief of the principal Pakistani islamist alliance, which called at once with new demonstrations against the publication in Europe of caricatures of Mahomet.

  • India (Lucknow). An Islamic court of Lucknow, city of the north of India, launched Monday a fatwa (religious decree), condemning to dead the 12 authors of the caricatures.

; Reactions

  • UNO (Geneva). Three defense groups of the human rights invited the president of the General meeting and the United Nations to reject the attempts at last minute to incorporate Islamic religious precepts in the new charter of the council of the human rights.

  • the Vatican. The silence of the States and the international organizations is “ unacceptable ” vis-a-vis the riots antichrétiennes which have occurred Saturday in Nigeria, estimates the vice-chancellor of the pontifical Université, Mgr Rino Fisichella.

  • the Vatican. The pope Benoît XVI estimated that it was “ necessary and urgent that the religions and their symbols are respected ” in order to “ support peace and comprehension between the people and the men ”.

  • the Vatican. The Vatican requires of the European leaders to defend the right to the religious liberty during the negotiations and of displacements in the Moslem countries.

  • Denmark. The Danish Minister for the Foreign affairs, Per Stig Moeller, affirms that “ forces extremists try to maintain the conflict in life ”, being convinced that Al-Qaïda “ wants to also exploit the situation to poke fire ”.

  • Libya. Last official results give a report on eleven dead and 69 wounded, including 27 seriously, following the clashes which opposed the Libyan police force to demonstrators who had tackled the consulate of Italy to Benghazi.

February 21st 2006

; Events
  • Denmark (Copenhagen). According to the IT security expert Ulf Munkedal de Fort Consult, nearly 500 Danish Internet sites were tackled once again Monday by hackers following the caricature publication.

  • Italy (Rome). The president of the Italian Sénat Marcello Pera blames the authorities Libya in the violent incidents anti-Italian of Benghazi.

  • France (Paris). A debate organized by S.O.S Racism with Paris XII “ to defend freedom of expression in the business of the caricatures ” and envisaged Wednesday, February 22 was prohibited by the presidency of the university to the reason for the maintenance of law and order.

; Reactions

  • the Vatican. The Saint Seat requires the respect of the principle of reciprocity, after the wave of violence which aimed at Christian communities to the Nigeria and with the Pakistan.

  • Denmark. The 12 Danish draftsmen authors of the controversial caricatures of Mahomet published in the daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten, are always protected by the police force.

  • Denmark. The ambassador of Denmark with Jakarta was awaited in Indonesia to reopen the embassy as soon as possible.

  • OCI . Since Islamabad the general secretary of the Organization of the Islamic conference, the Turk Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglun, qualifies “very dangerous ” the fatwa launched by Indian Moslems.

February 22nd 2006

; Events

  • Russia. Publication: the Douma wants to inquire into the reasons of the closing of several regional Russian newspapers.

  • Pakistan (Karachi). Demonstration: 10.000 demonstrators against the caricatures, with Larkana (300 km in the north of Karachi, south), stronghold of the former Prime Ministers Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his daughter Benazir Bhutto.

  • Iran (Teheran). Demonstration: a hundred the islamist ones express in front of the embassy of Italy in Teheran to protest against the caricature publication.

; Reactions

  • UNO (New York). The general secretary of UNO, Kofi Annan, will chair Saturday Doha a high level roundtable to discuss the crisis caused by the publication in Europe of the caricatures.

  • the Vatican (Rome). Mgr Velasio De Paolis, secretary in the Vatican of the Supreme court of the apostolic signature, reproaches the Occident its fears vis-a-vis an Islam “ closed at the point not to admit the reciprocity ” in an interview with Stampa. “ the self-defense is a duty ”, affirmed Mgr De Paolis. “ the truth is not essential by the force (…) But if to respect the other means to give up being oneself, that does not have any more a direction to dialog ”.

  • the United States. The US president George W. Bush points out the foreign governments, to start with that of Pakistan, with their “ obligation ” to prevent the demonstrators from dictating their law.

  • Italy. The chief of the Italian government Silvio Berlusconi condemns the caricatures of Mahomet in an interview diffused on the chain Al-Jazira, after anti-Italian demonstrations which made eleven died in Libya.

  • Spain. The Spanish group of clothing Inditex, especially known for its mark Zara, withdraws its stores a few thousands of price tickets of clothing of its Bershka mark which represented a mosque.

  • Indonesia (Jakarta). The police force indonésienne promises to reinforce safety around the building lodging the embassy of the Denmark, which was to reopen after its closing following the publication of the caricatures.

  • Pakistan (Peshawar). A Pakistani Imam, which had already offered last week a million dollars and a car for the death of the draftsmen of the caricatures of Mahomet, ensures that kamikazes proposed for “ to kill the blasphemers ”.

February 23rd 2006

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  • Germany (Lüdinghausen). A business man having distributed, for artistic reasons, toilet paper with the word " coran" registered voter above is condemned to one of suspended sentence for offense in Coran.

  • Indonesia (Jakarta). Demonstration: Several hundreds of Moslems in front of the embassy of Denmark.

; Reactions

  • Italy. The president of the Senate Italian, Marcello Pera, surrounded by several Ministers for the government of Silvio Berlusconi, lance a proclamation for “ to defend the Occident, crossed by a moral crisis ” and threatened “ by Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism ”.

  • Italy. The Italian Minister for justice Roberto Castelli compared Islamic fundamentalism with the Nazism. “ the Islamic terrorist extremism is a threat for our company comparable with the Nazism ”.

  • Nigeria. The confrontations between Moslems and Christians with Onitsha in the State of (Anambra would have made at least 80 died. The relative calm which reigns in Onitsha is misleading: “ the police force should not be slackened. What we know it is the peace of the cemetery ”.

  • Egypt. The Egyptian Minister for the Foreign affairs in vain affirms in a newspaper Danish to have offered to Denmark and the international community the possibility of avoiding the crisis born of the caricatures of Mahomet. Denial by the Danish diplomacy the following day.

February 24th 2006

; Events

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The Danish Minister for the Foreign affairs Per Stig Møller demented person of the remarks of his Egyptian counterpart according to which Egypt offered in vain to Denmark and the international community the possibility of avoiding the crisis born of the caricatures.

  • England (London). One of the caricatures was briefly posted on the display panel of a British town hall, leading the police force to open an investigation.

  • Bielorussia (Minsk). Publication: a newspaper of opposition, the weekly magazine Zgoda, was seen meaning that it could be closed to have published caricatures of the Mahomet prophet. The drafting of the newspaper denounces a pretext seized by the authorities.

  • Finland (Helsinki). Publication: the Finnish review Kaltio laid off its editor association following the publication in his pages of a cartoon on Mahomet drawn by the Finnish draftsman Ville Ranta, an author recently invited with Angouleme and published in France by Dargaud.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad). The chief of the islamist opposition and several tens of islamist militants were stopped in Pakistan where thousands of people expressed in spite of imposing deployments of the police force.

; Reactions

  • SOEC (Vienna). Several Western speakers before the parliamentary assembly of SOEC pointed out that, in the business of the caricatures of Mahomet, freedom of expression was one of the pillars of the democracy.

  • Denmark. The Danish ambassador in Syria will turn over to his station to Damas with an aim of reopening the embassy.

  • Denmark. Denmark will organize on March 10th in Copenhagen a conference on the religious and cultural dialog.

  • Denmark. The Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten received a price of journalism for its initiative, the Victor Price for “ to have opened the eyes of all by showing how it is easy to fissure freedom of expression ”.

  • Holland. A company Dutchwoman announced Friday the setting on sale via Internet of Tee-shirts carrying one of the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet.

February 25th 2006

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  • France (Lyon). Demonstration: Of 250 Moslems ( according to the General informations ) with 600 ( according to the organizers ), expresses against the publication of the caricatures, with the call of the Parti the Moslems of France (PMF). The slogans alternated between the French and of the religious Arabic formulas, like “ Allahou Akbar ”.

  • Holland (Amsterdam). Brawls burst when militants of extreme-left were caught some with a demonstration in favor of the freedom of expression organized in Amsterdam to defend the caricature publication of Mahomet.

; Reactions

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The Danish author and actor Flemming Jensen prepares, not without apprehension, a play on the shock of civilizations with in backdrop the crisis of the caricatures of Mahomet.

February 26th 2006

Events

  • Pakistan (Karachi). Demonstration : 25.000 demonstrators.

  • Malaysia. Publication: Closing for two weeks of a third daily newspaper which had published one of the caricatures.

; Reactions

  • Greece (Athens). The chief of the orthodoxe Church of Greece, Mgr Christodoulos, expresses his concern on the business of the caricatures, not excluding “ the beginning from a war from civilizations or religions ”.

February 28th 2006

; Events
  • France. Charlie Hebdo publishes Wednesday a proclamation of twelve intellectuals entitled “ Ensemble against new totalitarianism, Islamism ”. The twelve signatories are Ayaan Hirsi Ali (appointed Dutchwoman of Somali origin, scenario writer of the film " Submission"), Chahla Chafiq (écrivaine of Iranian origin exiled in France), Caroline Fourest (French essay writer), Bernard-Henri Levy (French philosopher), Irshad Manji (essay writer living in Canada, whose family had fled Uganda), Mehdi Mozaffari (university of Iranian origin exiled in Denmark), Maryam Namazie (écrivaine of Iranian origin exiled in Great Britain), Taslima Nasreen (doctor and écrivaine exiled of Bangladesh after having been the object of death threats by the islamist ones), Salman Rushdie (writer British, condemned to died by a fatwa ofIranian Imam Khomeiny in 1989), Antoine Sfeir (directing of the review Books of the East ), Philippe Val (publication director of Charlie Hebdo ), Ibn Warraq (enquiring American of indo-Pakistani origin, author of “ Why I am not Moslem ”). ,

  • the United States (Irvine). With the call of islamist association “ Muslim Student Union ” 200 Moslem students expressed at the university of Irvine in California after the club “Republicans College” of the university decided to expose the caricatures within the framework of a forum on terrorism.

  • Pakistan (Karachi). 5.000 young people Pakistani express by shouting “ hang those which insulted the prophet ”. The children, old from 8 to 12 years, burned a coffin covered with American flags , Israeli and Danish with a crossroads of this port city, under the monitoring of police officers. The demonstration was organized by Jamaat-e-Islami, the islamist movement most important in Pakistan. The children, of which some carried uniforms and stringcourses on which one could read “ God is large ”, had been exempted of school to take part in it.

; Reactions

  • France. The deputy Jean-Marc Roubaud (UMP) deposits a private bill aiming at qualifying insult any attack against the bases of a religion, and in particular by the means of drawing.

Mars 2006

March 1st 2006

; Events ; Reactions
  • Nigeria. Christian persons in charge of Nigeria condemned the assassination of at least 51 Christians and the destruction of more than 31 churches in the North of the country by Moslems at the time of demonstrations caused by the caricature publication of the Mahomet prophet in Western newspapers.

  • the West Bank. 63% of the Palestinians consider that violence was an appropriate response.

March 2nd 2006

; Events
  • World. Publication: At March 2nd, 2006, 143 newspapers in 56 countries published the caricatures of Mahomet. No large American newspaper published the caricatures, although 14 regional newspapers or buildings published them.

  • France. Publication: Charlie-Hebdo gains its lawsuit against the French Conseil of the Muslim cult (CFCM) which hoped to make prohibit the newspaper.

  • Pakistan. act: a new church is burned by Moslems, the " Basti Noori Spoils Presbyterian Church".

  • the West Bank. A Danish diplomat in the West Bank received a death threat related to the business of the caricatures of Mahomet according to the chief of the Danish diplomatic representation in Ramallah, Rolf Holmboe.

; Reactions

  • France. Daniel Leconte, producer, realizer, and prize winner of the Prix Albert London thanks the newspaper Charlie-Hebdo for his defense for freedom of expression. “ While refusing to yield to the fear, the satirical hebdo showed the example with all the media ”.

March 3rd 2006

; Events

  • E. - U. (Chapel Hill). A student Iran IEN, Taheri-azar, 22 years, rented a 4x4 and has dark on a point of meeting of students, on an university campus of North Carolina. Although, according to the police force, it intended to kill, there were only 9 wounded, of which 6 were briefly hospitalized. The attacker, old studying campus, stated to have acted to protest against the way in which the Moslems are treated in the world.

; Reactions

March 4th 2006

Events
  • Denmark (Copenhagen). A group of twelve Moslem men tried to reach at its school the girl of one of the twelve Danish caricaturists. The spokesperson of the Danish liberals, Jen Rhode, revealed this during an interview with TV-Avisen. Extremely fortunately the girl of the draftsman was not at her school this day there. Jen Rhode also affirmed that the lives of the twelve caricaturists were upset, that they lived hidden since the death threats on their people.

; Reactions

March 5th 2006

; Events ; Reactions
  • Swiss (Bern). The Minister for Justice Christoph Blocher request of reserve in the naturalization of the Moslems. “ If they reject our fundamental values, they must leave the country ”. According to him it is not the role of the State to involve itself in the business of the caricatures of Mahomet, because it is now about a question of individual freedom and, in this case, of freedom of the press.

March 6th 2006

; Events

  • the United States. A Moslem lawyer Junaid Afeef will defend a student, Acton Gordon, which had published the caricatures of Mahomet the newspaper The Daily Illini of the university of the Illinois.

  • Canada. Publication: At the University of the Saskatchewan, a studying newspaper, The Sheaf, which had refused to publish the caricatures of Mahomet, publishes a caricature of the Christ making a fellatio with a pig. Two weeks front, a student newspaper of the university of the Toronto made a homosexual caricature of Christ.,

; Reactions

March 8th 2006

; Events
  • India (Srinagar, Indian Cashmere). Demonstration: Of the Moslem demonstrators burns Danish flags.

; Reactions

March 10th 2006

Events

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). At the conclusion of a conference on the cultural and religious dialog sponsored organized by the Danish government to leave the crisis, the Moslem representatives required, once again, the excuses of the Danish government and the construction of a Moslem cultural institute with Copenhagen to diffuse the Moslem culture. The Egyptian preacher Amr Khaled affirms to want “ serious readings that it is by the means of television, the press, the books ”. The religious dignity Kuwait IEN Tareq Al-Suweidan, who directs an Islamic television by satellite, Al-Risalah Islamic Chanel, showed himself even more demanding. “ We also want that one changes the laws in Denmark and in the European Union: either you have a freedom of speech for everyone, including the holocaust and the anti-semitism, or you change the laws to respect the religious figures like that of our Mahomet prophet. We are not in anger against the caricatures, even if that of the prophet with a bomb in the turban showing it as a terrorist is an unacceptable insult. We are in anger against the way in which your government managed this business ”, has it says to the address Danish.

; Reactions

March 13rd 2006

Events
  • Norway (Oslo). An Imam taken refuge in Norway causes the polemic while shouting with which wants to hear it that Islam will overcome in what it calls the war against its religion and the west. Mollah Krekar, Iraq IEN, declared with the press: “ summons Us those which will change you. Look at our development in Europe, the Moslems spread themselves like a cloud of mosquitos ”.

  • Pakistan (Islamabad). Demonstration: a thousand of people claimed the boycotting of the products Danish during a demonstration Monday with Islamabad against the publication of the caricatures. The militants of a party sunnite furrowed the principal commercial district of the city to the cries of “ With low Bush ”, “ Pendez the caricaturists ”. Another gathering with Karachi, economic capital of the country, brought together approximately 200 women.

; Reactions

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). The Danish Minister for the Foreign affairs Per Stig Møller received Monday a petition of more than 60.000 signatures calling with the reconciliation between Denmark and the Muslim world after the crisis around the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet. Organizers of the countryside “ Naked Forsoning ” (" Reconciliation now "), exhorted all the parts concerned, in particular the Danish governments and other countries implied in this business, " to work together to solve this conflit". “ It is an good initiative and that shows that the Danes want to advance ”, Per Stig Møller with the press declared after having received the petition.

  • Denmark (Copenhagen). Since the business of the caricatures, 45% Danish have less sympathy to the Moslems. The Parti the Danish people (PD) of Pia Kjaersgaard, which does not hesitate to qualify the Imams of “ seeds of bad grass ”, sees its popularity increasing. Combined government liberal-conservative, the PD had obtained 13,3% of the votes to legislative of February 2005. It is credited today with 17,8% of the voting intentions. According to its vice-president, Peter Skaarup, “ the Danes note that we were right, while affirming during years that there exists a fifth column in Denmark, a kind of enemy of the interior which carries out a company of sabotage in the kingdom ”.

  • Norway. According to a survey the Left progress (FRP), which had obtained 22,1% of the votes at the time of the legislative ones of October, collects today 31,8% of favorable opinions.

  • Pakistan (Peshawar). Mollah Qureshi “ It does not have there limit in time… If somebody kills the caricaturist in 50 years, it will be entitled to the million of dollars ”.

March 14th 2006

Events

; Reactions

  • European Union (Helsinki). At the time of an international seminar held with Helsinki, Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish Minister for the Foreign affairs, whose country will hold the presidency of the EU starting from July 1st, declared: “ To build the dialog: beyond the caricatures ”. “ the European Union should seek to engage in a dialog with the Moslems moderated at the same time on the international plan and national ”. This meeting, organized by the Finnish Institute of foreign affairs (UPI), brings together in particular the ambassadors Spanish Máximo Cajal and Turkish Ali Yakital, of which country jointly launched an initiative in favor of the dialog, baptized “ alliance of civilizations ”.

March 16th 2006

; Events
  • England (London). Three British Moslems stopped in connection with the manifestation of February 3rd with London against the caricature publication of Mahomet in European newspapers during which calls with the murder and the racial hate had been launched. Uman Javed, 26 years, of Birmingham, Abdul Rahman Saleem, 31 years, and Omar Zaheer, 26 years, (London). Two other men were also stopped. The demonstrators had invited with “ to massacre those which insult Islam ”, “ Coupez the head of those which insult Islam ”, “ Moques today, you will die tomorrow ” or “ Europe you will pay. The four fantastic ones are on the way ”, an allusion to the suicide bombings which made 56 died and 700 wounded in London the July 7th 2005.

  • Germany (Cologne). A Turkish association , the Union of the Democrats European Turkish (UETD), which asserts 20.000 members in Germany, in Austria and with the Bénélux, deposited felt sorry for against the German daily newspaper Die Welt to have published the caricatures.

; Reactions

March 17th 2006

; Events
  • Denmark (Copenhagen). A network of 27 Muslim associations will carry felt sorry for against Denmark attached to the commission of the human rights of UNO, and also against the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten . This decision makes following the refusal of Danish justice to set in motion a procedure.

; Reactions

March 21st 2006

Events

  • Sweden (Stockholm). Resignation of the Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds. The minister had lied by affirming that it had not made pressure to make close the Web site of the political party which wanted to publish the caricatures of Mahomet. This lie confirmed the impression of the population which it was about a breach of liberty of expression.

  • England (Wales). Publication: In the edition of February of the magazine there Llan (Welsh Church) of the Church Anglican of Wales, a drawing drawn from the newspaper France Soir, representative Mahomet with Buddha or the Christ illustrated an article on the common origins of the religions monotheists. Continuation this publication the editor was forced to resign, the 500 specimens were pointed out, and the archbishop of Wales, Dr. Barry Morgan, immediately contacted to ensure the general secretary of the Moslem Council of Wales Saleem Kidwai, to excuse itself, and it that there had been no will to offend the Moslems. Saleem Kidwai commented on this business, while speaking about unhappy error. The Church of Wales will carry out a thorough survey to know how a caricature could be published.

; Reactions

  • Denmark. The Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen sharply criticized the dairy group dano-Swedish Arla Foods for his communication campaign in the Arab media against the boycott, where the company condemned the caricatures. The spokesperson of the liberal party to the capacity, affirmed that “Arla Foods folded knees in a pitiful way in front of the Moslems. My principles of liberty are not to sell for two liters of milk”. The boycotting cost 1,4 million euros per day the company.

March 25th 2006

; Events
  • India. Publication: a book of history, “ History off the World: Earliest Times to the Present Day ” containing a drawing representing Mahomet is withdrawn from the Crossword distribution network, after the protests of Moslems to the government of the State of Bengal of the West.

April 2006

April 27th 2006

; Events
  • Norway. The Norwegian Commission of the complaints against the press cleared the Christian magazine Magazinet , one of the first to have reproduced (on January 10th, 2006) in Norway the caricatures of Mahomet, according to the principle that “the people insulted and wounded cannot see themselves granting a right to veto on what can be published”.

October 2006

October 26th 2006

Danish justice finally gave reason to the newspaper Jyllands-Posten in the business of the caricatures: the daily newspaper was discharged by the judge of the court of Aarhus. Associations and their spokesperson Kasem Said Ahmad announced their decision to make call of this decision.

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Documents

  • "Caricatures of Mahomet, History and consequences of a handling mondiale" , ESISC, February 11th, 2006. * " Caricatures off Mohammad: The History and Consequences off has total manipulation" , ESISC, February 11th, 2006.

  • world Chart of the demonstrations against the caricatures (Web 2.0 - Google Maps)

  • "The proclamation of the twelve: together against new the totalitarisme" , the Express train , 02.03.06

  • "Full text: Writers' statement one cartoons" , BBC News, 01.03.06, the " proclamation of the douze" in English.

Images

  • Carrefour boycotts Denmark, 2,3,4
  • Palestinian burn the French flag. Liban.Ein-el-Hilweh.03.02.06, 2
  • Photographies of the Demonstrations in London against Polish the Site caricatures
  • Photographies of the demonstrations in London 2, '' In Their Own Words '', Michelle Malkin
  • Infographie of the demonstrations in the world of February 3rd, 2006.

  • Photographs of the attack of the embassy from Denmark in Damas in Syria 04.02.06. 2,3,4.

  • the rioters in Beirut tear off ''' a flag Suisse ''' in front of the embassy of Denmark. : D.

  • Images of the riots of the 05.02.06 in Beirut (Lebanon) on the Nouvel Observateur .
  • Images of the riots of the 05.02.06 in Beirut (Lebanon) on BareNuckles.
  • Images of the report I-TV on the demonstration prohibited by the prefecture of the 05.02.06.à Paris 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08
  • Image of the video calling with the murder of the draftsmen

  • Flickr Gallery of the manifestations of February 17th in New York, the USA

  • European Muslims reveal to their off true face during protests against caricatures Muhammad CAGE.02.05.2006

Video

  • Syrian Attack on the embassies.
  • an islamist video calling with the boycott and the murder of the Danish draftsmen
  • Demonstration in London of February 3rd, 2006 by an islamist group, Al-Muhajiroun, in front of the embassies of Denmark, of Norway and France, Nefa,

Audio

  • RMC, emission Large Mouths, February 6th, 2006, invited Mouloud Aounit, MRAP, with the 24e minute. Podcast.mp3.25mo

  • RMC, emission Large Mouths, February 6th, 2006, invited Mouloud Aounit, MRAP, Extracted, 680ko, 2 sources: 1,2
  • Radio Québécois Rockik.com, February 6th, 2006, invited Maurice Dantec, 12mo|55minutes|mp3
  • Release, Podcast of the 08 févier 2006, the team of Charlie Hebdo relieved speaks about the number containing a caricature of Mahomet " “It is hard to be liked by idiots” ". * As Chetchnia, the policy instrumentalise caricatures of Mahomet, by Eric Helque, Radio Vatican, 08.02.06. The audio file
  • Handling of justice by the French government against freedom of expression, Extract of the Newspaper 19 hours, Inter.07.02.08 France.

  • "Charlie Hebdo Assembled in puissance" , Agoravox, 6.03.06, mp3 of the related article

References

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