An Iranian man looks at a piece of conceptual art with a flag of the U.S. and a picture of novelist Salman Rushdie in a coffin during the 16th annual International Koran Exhibition at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran on August 30, 2008. Rushdie went into hiding and was under police protection after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called for the writer's death because he said Rushdie's 1988 book "The Satantic Verses" was offensive to the prophet Muhammad. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah) .
Prophet Muhammad is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
Narcotics in Islam
Religion and nationalism are the refuge of scoundrels, so it was no great surprise to learn that Haji Baz Muhammad, the Afghan criminal mastermind who has made millions of dollars from narcotics trafficking, said he was selling heroin in order to wage a jihad against the United States.
Who are today's terrorists?
Of the 42 groups designated by the U.S. State Department as "foreign terrorist organizations" in its 2007 Country Report on Terrorists, 22 – half of the organizations – hail from the Middle East and North Africa; more if one includes the so-called Greater Middle East. And this is not a complete list by any means.
Mourad Sellami: Tunisia - open to religion
Tunisia Vows to Preserve Religious Moderation
Ayesha Khan: Questioning the death penalty
Without a Priesthood Every Muslim Makes up Their Own Mind
OP-ED: Jørgen Nielsen-Dialogue of the deaf
Freedoms and Rights Conflict with Respect for the Sacred
Amid condemnation and hype, 'Fitna' flops
Relying on film clips from terrorist attacks randomly interspersed with Koranic recitations, "Fitna" (loosely translated as "strife" in Arabic) is an amateurish work of propaganda which has been largely discounted by European politicians and Muslim groups alike.
Headlines from the Arab press
What the Arab papers said on March 21:
EDITORIAL: Those baffling Europeans
The Europeans are baffling. What is an Arab who studies Europe supposed to make of a continent where the Swiss foreign minister this week was condemned in her own country for the courtesy of wearing a veil when she visited her Iranian counterpart?
Dutch film wins Egypt prize amid furor
An Egyptian film festival has awarded a prize to a Dutch film in a surprise turnaround on Thursday after earlier banning entries from the country because of an MPs anti-Islamic film.
