D.C. Panel to Discuss Danish Cartoon Controversy

By: E&P Staff The Newseum and the National Press Club are sponsoring a panel this Friday about the Danish cartoon controversy.

Among the issues discussed will be "where we should draw the line between free speech and religious tolerance."

Scheduled speakers include Signe Wilkinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Philadelphia Daily News and the Washington Post Writers Group; Mamoun Fandy, columnist for the Arabic-language, London newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat; Steffen Gram, Washington bureau chief for Danish Broadcasting; and Paul McMasters, ombudsman for the First Amendment Center.

The panel will begin at 9 a.m. at the National Press Club, which is on the 13th floor of the National Press Building, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.

A number of people have died in violent Muslim protests against the cartoons, which depicted the Prophet Muhammad in negative or more neutral ways. The drawings were first published in a Danish newspaper in September, and later reprinted by other papers.