HELSINKI, Finland — Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose image of the prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban was at the center of widespread anti-Danish anger among Muslims worldwide ...

COPENHAGEN — This diminutive nation with an offbeat sense of humor and a strong self-image of cultural tolerance is not accustomed to having its flag burned, embassies stormed and coat of arms ...

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 ...

Cartoon Controversy Slams Denmark's Economy The publication of cariticatures of the Prophet Muhammed in a Danish newspaper -- and subsequently around Europe -- has caused unprecedented economic ...

A Denmark newspaper's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad has continued to spark protests, despite the government's efforts to contain Muslim anger. Several thousand people ...

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

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 cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has died at the age of 86. According to The Associated Press, Westergaard’s family announced his death to Danish media on Sunday, saying he died in his sleep ...

On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, some of which were extremely demonizing in their outspoken anti-Muslim symbolism.

The Danish cartoons were first published in 2005. The angry response from Muslims around the world was incomprehensible—and repellent—to many outside those communities. In some places there were riots ...

Ten years after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the shockwaves are still reverberating -- but experts are divided over how attitudes to freedom of expression have ...

Danish Police Start Inquiry in Cartoonist Attack. Danish police ransacked three apartments, two of which belonged to relatives of the suspects, in connection with Friday’s attack on a newspaper ...