News about Danish Cartoon Controversy, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose image of Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban sparked anger among Muslims worldwide, has died.

Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist whose caricature of the prophet Muhammad wearing a turban with a fuse-lit bomb incensed Muslims around the world, provoked a free-speech debate and sparked ...

Danish cartoons, no longer the rage Danish politics lurched right as the scandal provoked Muslims worldwide. But now Danes are fed up with their own "Bush-lite" -- and are backing a Muslim immigrant.

The Danish government tries to mollify Muslims angry over cartoons depicting Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. But it has not condemned their publication. As protest ...

The cartoons were sketched in an atmosphere of rising Muslim discontent, a surge in strength for the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, a commitment to keeping Danish troops in Iraq and the ...

9 February 2006 -- The Danish editor who decided to publish satirical cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad has been asked by his newspaper to take an extended leave of absence.

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has died at the age of 86. Westergaard worked as a cartoonist for Denmark’s newspaper Jyllands-Posten beginning in the early 1980s. He became well-known as a ...

The publication of cariticatures of the Prophet Muhammed in a Danish newspaper -- and subsequently around Europe -- has caused unprecedented economic problems for Denmark. It has also triggered a ...

When a Danish newspaper published cartoons lampooning the prophet Muhammad in September, few people outside the Scandinavian nation took notice -- until a group of Danish Muslim organizations ...

* Defendants accused of planning massacre at newspaper * Paper published cartoons of Prophet Mohammad in 2005 * Latest in series of attacks linked to cartoons * Denmark may be extremist target for … ...