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Banksy Tags 'The Simpsons'

(Oct. 11) -- UPDATE, 5:13 p.m. Fox has removed Banksy's opening sequence from YouTube, according to TechCrunch. Street artist Banksy has created a name for himself by leaving his mark in unexpected places. Sunday night, the surprise locale was the title sequence of "The Simpsons," which under his direction took a dark...

Meet the Imam in the Middle of the Quran Drama

(Sept. 9) -- For a few brief hours on Thursday, the peace-loving world thought it could breathe a sigh of relief: The proposed Sept. 11 Quran-burning stunt was seemingly called off by Dove World Outreach Center pastor Terry Jones. At a hastily called press conference outside his tiny church in Gainesville, Fla., Thursday...

US Cartoonist Lands on Hit List for Muhammad Event

(July 12) -- Molly Norris, the American cartoonist who started "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day," has been placed on the hit list of radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki singled out Norris as "a prime target of assassination" for suggesting earlier this year that Americans draw the prophet to protest the...

Irish Atheists Challenge Nation's Blasphemy Law

(Jan. 2) -- An Irish atheist group has published a series of quotations on religion in an attempt to challenge a blasphemy law that went into effect on New Year's Day. The 25 "blasphemous" quotations include the words of Jesus, Mohammed, Mark Twain, Salman Rushdie and Bjork. Atheist Ireland published the list on its Web...

Background on Mohammed

Muhammad ( 26 April 570 – 8 June 632; also transliterated as Mohammad, Mohammed, or Muhammed; ), full name: Muhammad Ibn `Abd Allāh Ibn `Abd al-Muttalib () was a leader from Mecca who unified the tribes of Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam.

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