World & Nation
Denmark terrorism plot thwarted with arrest of five suspected militants, authorities say
Dec. 30, 2010
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose image of Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban sparked anger among Muslims worldwide, has died.
July 19, 2021
Reaction to drawings of Muhammad forces the nation to examine its self-image of tolerance.
Feb. 9, 2006
Danish authorities in the city of Aarhus arrested three people suspected of plotting a cartoonist’s assassination for his depiction of the prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, which enraged Muslims two years ago.
Feb. 13, 2008
A U.S. nuclear bomb lost more than three decades ago probably lies on the seabed off Greenland’s Thule air base, which the United States aims to use for its controversial antimissile shield, a Danish newspaper reported.
Aug. 14, 2000
A Danish court rejected a defamation lawsuit against a newspaper that first printed controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
Oct. 27, 2006
Does violent Muslim intolerance of Western ideals betray a basic incompatibility between the two cultures?
Feb. 7, 2006
Two Chicago men charged in terrorist plot
Oct. 28, 2009
Entertainment & Arts
It should come as no surprise that cartoonists would be a focus of attack by fundamentalist Muslim terrorists, like the barbaric assault carried out against the satirical Parisian newspaper Charlie Hebdo recently or, a decade earlier, the deadly violence that erupted in the wake of 12 satirical cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Jan. 16, 2015
Muslim anger grows, and the Danish premier meets with Arab envoys to defuse the situation sparked by caricatures of prophet Muhammad.
Feb. 4, 2006