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The cartoons that shook the world
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The cartoons that shook the world

Author: Jytte Klausen
Publisher: New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Five months later, thousands of Muslims inundated the newspaper with outpourings of anger and grief by phone, email, and fax; from Asia to Europe Muslims took to the streets in protest. This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the conflict that aroused impassioned debates around the world on  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Caricatures and cartoons
Case studies
Named Person: Muḥammad, Prophet; Mohammed
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jytte Klausen
ISBN: 9780300124729 0300124724
OCLC Number: 317471701
Description: 230 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The editors and the cartoonists --
The path to a showdown --
The diplomatic protest against the cartoons --
Muslims' "day of rage" --
Seeking the third way --
Muslim iconoclasm and Christian blasphemy --
Danish intolerance and foreign relations --
The freedom agenda rebound --
Chronology.
Responsibility: Jytte Klausen.

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On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper "Jyllands-Posten" published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. This book presents a comprehensive investigation of the conflict that aroused  Read more...

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