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A conservative advocacy group says Americans should rise up and demand that their local newspapers reprint cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed. The cartoons, first published by a Danish newspaper in September and then reprinted in other European newspapers, have prompted rioting in the Muslim world as well as debates about freedom of speech. "Americans need to see for themselves what has outraged Islamofascists in certain parts of the world," said William Greene, president of the online organization, RightMarch.com. "Many Christians and Jews have had to endure the satirizing of their own religious figures. It's called the free expression of...

Moslems around the world are threatening death and destruction because some Danish cartoonists depicted Mohammed. The Philadelphia Inquirer in a rare bit of courage published one to inform its readers about the controversy.

NEW YORK -- On Saturday, the Philadelphia Inquirer became one of the first major U.S. papers to carry a drawing featuring Muhammad -- with a lit bomb stuck in his turban -- that have sparked riots abroad. On Monday, more than two dozen Muslims offended by that decision picketed the newspaper. "It's disrespectful to us as a people," Asim Abdur-Rashid, an imam with the Majlis Ash'Shura, an umbrella group for mosques in the Delaware Valley, told the Inquirer for a story today. "It's disrespectful to our prophet to imply that he's a prophet of violence." The group may call for...