Cartoon controversy revisited

A Danish advocacy group devoted to promoting the freedom of the press is selling prints of a controversial editorial cartoon that deeply offended the Muslim community and sparked violent protests in 2005, according to the AP. The prints depict the Muslim prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban. The original cartoon, from 2005, is the work […]

A Danish advocacy group devoted to promoting the freedom of the press is selling prints of a controversial editorial cartoon that deeply offended the Muslim community and sparked violent protests in 2005, according to the AP.

The prints depict the Muslim prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban. The original cartoon, from 2005, is the work of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Islamic law forbids visual depictions of their holy prophet


Lars Hedegaard, chairman of the danish Free Press Society chimed in on the matter: “All we are doing is starting a debate. We are using our freedom of speech.”

(Photo credit: Kurt Westergaard)

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