I have written a number of articles and a book that touch on the current flare-up over the Jyllands-Posten publication of cartoons critical of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. I begin with an annotated bibliography of background pieces:
"Amazon.com's Koran Desecration Problem." FrontPageMag.com, May 20, 2005. A detailed look at one supposed incident concerning the purchase of a used Koran.
"Egypt's Problem with Ranan Lurie." Middle East Quarterly, September 1997. I tell here the story of an Israeli-born political cartoonist's brief and unhappy experience with the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram.
"Finding Allah in Unlikely Places." DanielPipes.org, September 16, 2005. A review of some incidents of alleged desecration of "Allah" in Arabic script.
Review of Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "Arabic Comic Strips: Politics of an Emerging Mass Culture." Middle East Quarterly, March 1995. An excellent interpretion of Arabic comics, stripping away their externals and revealing their underlying messages.
"Something Rotten in Denmark?" (with Lars Hedegaard). New York Post, August 27, 2002. A review of the problems associated with Muslim immigration in Denmark, with many interesting readers' comnments.
Review of Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "Arabic Comic Strips: Politics of an Emerging Mass Culture." Middle East Quarterly, March 1995. An excellent interpretion of Arabic comics, stripping away their externals and revealing their underlying messages.
The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West. New York: Birch Lane, 1990. Paperback edition: New Delhi: Voice of India, 1998. Second Edition: New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 2003. Surveys the events in 1989 surrounding the publication of The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie and the resulting death edict by Ayatollah Khomeini. Many of the issues in the Rushie episode – mocking Muhammad, freedom of speech, blasphemy, imposing Islamic norms on the West – foreshadowed those arising in the current crisis. The second edition includes an afterword by Konraad Elst that brings the story of Islamic censorship up to date.
"The United States Government: Patron of Islam?" (with Mimi Stillman). Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2002. Shows how Islam "now enjoys a privileged place in Washington, just as it does in almost every capital around the world."
"The West Stands Up for Its Customs." DanielPipes.org, October 10, 2002. Places the cartoon controversy in the context of other efforts by Europeans to keep their traditional culture intact.
And here are my writings specifically on the cartoon uproar, to be updated as needed:
"My role in the Danish cartoon affair." DanielPipes.org, February 6, 2006. Dispels the conspiracy theory that I had a role in the decision by Jyllands-Posten to commission or publish the cartoons concerning the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
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