New York, May 31, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the sentencing Tuesday of two Jordanian editors to two months in prison for publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Jihad Momani, former editor-in-chief of the weekly Shihan, and Hashem al-Khalidi, editor-in-chief of the weekly Al-Mehwar, were found guilty by an [...]

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This is a cross-posting. It was initially published at Global Voices in my (semi)-weekly translation post.
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere.
This week, johacom was happy to find some cartoons by Arab cartoonist that depict some Official Arab Leaders. He says:

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Less than a week ago extremist Jews defaced the Nabi Elias Mosque east of Qalqilia - Palestine, with graffiti insulting the Prophet Mohammad and Islam. Early Friday morning, extremists wrote nearly the same words on the mosque for the second time.
A Ma’an News correspondent reported that Palestinian worshippers were surprised in the morning when they [...]

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In an interesting move, the Israel News Agency has decided to post some Holocaust cartoons and launched an SEO - Internet search engine optimization marketing contest to prevent Iran and Islam terrorist groups news Websites (as they claim) from reaching top positions in Google. According to INA, this is the first time that a SEO [...]

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In response to the Prophet Mohammad cartoons, this newspaper has decided to run a picture of the queen, Margrethe II, as a belly-dancer. Apparently it’s supposed to make us laugh and Danes to get angry. I’m just laughing at their poor attempt.
This is Ironic, ridiculous, idiotic, laughable, nonsensical, …
I was told that this is an [...]

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Yesterday I was reading “Bloggers: an army of irregulars” by Paul Reynolds from the BBC. He talks about what big business and the mainstream media can learn from blogs :
For many in the “mainstream media”, as bloggers call us, weblogs are at best a nuisance and at worst dangerous.
They are seen as the rantings and [...]

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Crazy world: Iran’s largest selling newspaper has announced it is holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let’s see if they mean what they say [...]

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Norwegian magazine has published the Prophet cartoons:
A Norwegian Christian magazine has published a set of controversial caricatures of the prophet Mohammed after months of uproar in the Muslim world over a Danish paper’s decision to print the same cartoons. Repeating a move by conservative Danish paper Jyllands-Posten last September, Magazinet published the controversial drawings in [...]

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I am from There
I come from there and remember,
I was born like everyone is borne, I have a mother and a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends and a prison.
I have a wave that sea-gulls snatched away.
I have a view of my own and an extra blade of grass.
I have a moon past the [...]

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Al-Jazeera Managing Director, Waddah Khanfar, is on the way to London this weekend to find answers. Mr. Blair, will you grant Al-Jazeera Staff request for an urgent meeting? [Hat tip: Mohammed]

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Well, I guess that settles that.
“We do not torture,” said President Bush on Monday.
Never mind all those torture pictures from Abu Ghraib.
Never mind all those torture stories from Guant�namo Bay.
Never mind the 2002 Justice Department memo that sought to justify torture.
Never mind reports of U.S. officials sending detainees to other countries for torture.
Never mind Dick [...]

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[Cartoon: Mahjoob]
From right to left: Russian style, Samurai Style, French Style, and last the Syrian Style.

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“[Islamic Extremists] … establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia”.

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This is the weirdest thing I read this year. No, not the cartoon, but this:
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Recommend reading (in Arabic). Not because it is good, but… I don’t know. If it’s true, I find it very funny, yet sick. I just can’t describe my feeling now. To cry or laugh!
Can anyone in Jordan [...]

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[Mahjoob]

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