1. Government E-1182 Jocelyne Cesari

2. TIMELINE  September 30, 2005: Cartoons published.  October 12, 2005: Hlayhel suggests the Danish are insulting to Muslims, but sensitive to Jews.  October 14, 2005: Demonstration at City hall Plaza in Copenhagen.  October 19, 2005 Petition from ambassadors in Muslim countries to meet with Prime Minister Rasmussen.  December 3, 2005: First delegation in Cairo representing a coalition of mosques.  End of December: Second delegation, in Beirut.  Late January: Protests and demonstrations in Denmark.  February 2006: Demokratiske Muslimer was formed by Naser Khader.  March 2006: French television crew records the activist imam Akkari potentially threatening Khader. Prime Minister Rasmussen Flemming Rose, (Culture Editor of Jyllands-Posten) Naser Khader Ahmed Abu Laban Ahmed Akkari

3.  Principle of respectful non identification  Equality between religions  Tension between freedom of religion and Separation of Church and State  Leading to illiberal concept of secularism: Freedom from Religion  Recent evolution of laicite in France, 1989, 2004, 2010

4.  Difference of meanings of Neutrality and Public Space, compared to the US  Is the European and American divide overrated?  Difference with Muslim countries

5. MAIN POINTS  Religion on the International Agenda  How and why the cartoons crisis became global TIMELINE  January 29, 2006: Clerics from the Muslim Brotherhood condemn the cartoons.  Early February 2006: Al Qaradawi gives a sermon on Qatar TV, urging Muslims to stage a "day of rage."  February 2006: Wave of international protests.  February 5: Lebanese protest, injuring 50 and killing 1.  February 14-18: Pakistani protest, injuring at least 140 and killing 5.  February 17: Protests in Lybya injure over 50 and kill 11.  February 18-24: Protests in Nigeria kill at least 130 and injure over 450.  February 2006: Qureshi, a cleric from Peshawar, offers a $25,000 bounty for killing "the cartoonist." Fire burning in the Danish Embassy in Damascus in protest.