Damaris CultureWatch is a U.K.-based organization that offers Christian reflection on film, television, music, books and art.

The Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., has institutes dedicated to film, dramatic arts, music and expressions of “visual faith.” Each of the institutes has a web page with essays, reviews and criticism.

Daniel C. Peterson is a professor of Arabic and currently serves as editor-in-chief and director of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative at the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature at Columbia University in New York.

Jamal J. Elias is a professor of religious studies and South Asia studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written on visual religious art in Islam.

This Feb. 1, 2006 BBC News article provides a European perspective on the controversy.

This Feb. 6, 2006, New York Times article analysed the escalating violence of Muslim protests against the Danish cartoons that depicted Muhammad as a terrorist.

Read a 2006 article by Hesham A. Hassaballa arguing that many Muslims were outraged over the cartoons controversy because of the lack of respect it conveyed towards them.

Read a 2006 article by Mark Levine arguing that the Danish cartoons controversy tell us more about Western fears of Islam than they do about Muslim attitudes.