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The group that sponsored the “Draw Muhammad” contest, which led to an Islamic State-inspired attack in Texas earlier this month, wants the winning cartoon to appear on train stations and buses in ...

Yesterday a number of cartoonists and activists around the world partook in "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day." The campaign encouraged people to submit caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to ...

Police in Turkey detained three more employees of a satirical magazine on Tuesday, raising the number of people taken into custody over a cartoon that allegedly depicted the Prophet Muhammad to four.

Faculty leaders at a Minnesota college that dismissed an art history instructor who showed depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a course have overwhelmingly called for the university president to ...

These are glimpses of the original 12 Danish Mohammad cartoons from 2006 that sparked the international furor by fundamentalist Muslims, and that led to the firebombing of the Danish embassy in ...

The surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who frequently drew Mohammed for the newspaper has announced he’s retiring the character. “I will no longer draw [Mohammad]. He no longer interests me,” Rénald ...

A far-right politician, who gave a speech at a Dallas area event attacked last month for featuring a Muhammad drawing contest, said the images... A far-right Dutch politician said cartoons of the ...

Stockholm — The Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since his 2007 sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body brought death threats, died from a traffic accident ...

ALLAHYAR, Iran – Here in this Persian replica of Mecca, built at the cost of millions of dollars, an Iranian film company is attempting to offer the world a literal glimpse of the Prophet Muhammad ...

Hours before two would-be terrorists attacked a provocative Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest, the FBI sent local authorities the license plate number and photo of one of the shooters, who had a prior ...