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{{PortalArticle|image=|description=In what became known as The Rushdie Affair or The Satanic Verses Controversy in 1988, the British novelist Salman Rushdie published a novel which in drawing on the Satanic Verses incident from Muhammad's life so incensed large parts of the Muslim world as to compel international protests and a death sentence in the form of a fatwa from the then Grand Ayatollah Khomeini. Numerous deaths followed.|title=The Rushdie Affair|summary=}}{{PortalArticle|image=Everybody Draw Muhammad Day - May 20th.jpg|summary=|title=Everybody Draw Mohammed Day|description=Everybody Draw Muhammad Day began when, on May 20th, 2010, cartoonist Molly Norris responded to death threats directed at follow cartoonists who had drawn Muhammad by suggesting that if everyone drew Muhammad, then Jihadists would be dumbfounded about who to kill. Subjected to threats herself, Norris later recanted, but her idea lives on.}} | {{PortalArticle|image=|description=In what became known as The Rushdie Affair or The Satanic Verses Controversy in 1988, the British novelist Salman Rushdie published a novel which in drawing on the Satanic Verses incident from Muhammad's life so incensed large parts of the Muslim world as to compel international protests and a death sentence in the form of a fatwa from the then Grand Ayatollah Khomeini. Numerous deaths followed.|title=The Rushdie Affair|summary=}}{{PortalArticle|image=Everybody Draw Muhammad Day - May 20th.jpg|summary=|title=Everybody Draw Mohammed Day|description=Everybody Draw Muhammad Day began when, on May 20th, 2010, cartoonist Molly Norris responded to death threats directed at follow cartoonists who had drawn Muhammad by suggesting that if everyone drew Muhammad, then Jihadists would be dumbfounded about who to kill. Subjected to threats herself, Norris later recanted, but her idea lives on.}} | ||
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{{PortalArticle|title=European Court of Human Rights on | {{PortalArticle|title=European Court of Human Rights on Shariah Law|summary=|image=European Court of Human Rights logo.svg|description=With the banning of the Welfare Party (''Refah Partisi'', RP), an Islamist political party in Turkey, and a further sanction in the form of a ban on its leaders sitting in Parliament or holding certain other forms of political office for a period of five years, the European Court of Human Rights determined on July 31, 2001, that "the institution of Sharia law and a theocratic regime, were incompatible with the requirements of a democratic society."}}{{PortalArticle|image=Turbanbomb2-a.gif|description=In 2005, the Danish newspaper ''Jylands-Posten'' published cartoons of Muhammad including, most famously, one of Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. The cartoons sparked international controversy. Widespread protests throughout the Muslim world followed and more than 250 reported deaths followed. Assassination attempts were made against Kurt Westergaard, who drew the bomb-turban image.|title=Jyllands-Posten Muhammad Cartoons Controversy|summary=}} | ||
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