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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes unequivocally defended the free speech rights of a group that hosted a “Draw Muhammad” event this weekend in Garland, Texas, breaking hard Thursday night with many of his ...

The Seattle Weekly Explains How She's Doing "Norris views the situation with her customary sense of the world's complexity, and absurdity," Seattle Weekly Editor-in-Chief Mark Fefer writes. "When FBI ...

Pakistani students and others affiliated with a religious party rallied against the Facebook page "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. A Pakistani court ...

Earlier this week, everyone’s favorite eternal teenage antagonists, South Park, spat in the face of Islamic religious law by depicting the Prophet Muhammad… in a bear costume. Comedy Central went weak ...

The outcry from Comedy Central’s decision to censor an episode of South Park with depictions of Muhammad last week led a cartoonist and a Facebook user to fight back. That is until they realized it ...

"Shock for shock's sake." "Choreographed punditry." And "wrong, childish and needlessly provocative." That's what some critics think of Thursday's Facebook-ignited campaign titled "Everybody Draw ...

Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — It was a Facebook campaign meant to make a stand for free speech. But in Pakistan, a contest encouraging users of the social-networking site to submit caricatures ...

The surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who frequently drew Mohammed for the newspaper has announced he’s retiring the character. “I will no longer draw [Mohammad]. He no longer interests me,” Rénald ...

WASHINGTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The Supreme Court is declining to get involved in a dispute that began when a group tried to have Washington transit officials display an ad with a provocative cartoon of ...