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Danish newspapers reprint Muhammad cartoon

by AlanEvans | February 13, 2008 at 03:58 am | 832 views | 2 comments | 0 recommendations

You know your'e going to have a bad day, when this guys walks into your newsroom.

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Danish newspapers today reprinted a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad, a day after three people were arrested for allegedly plotting to kill the man who drew it.

When the image was originally printed as part of a series of 12 by the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005, it sparked global protests and there were violent demonstrations in Muslim countries.

The newspaper reprinted the cartoon today, saying it wanted to show its commitment to freedom of speech after yesterday's arrests.

Several other newspapers, including Politiken, Berlingske Tidende and the Ekstra Bladet tabloid also decided to run the cartoon, which shows the prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb.

"We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper will always defend," Berlingske Tidende, based in Copenhagen, said.

An editorial in Politiken said the paper was printing the cartoon in support of Jyllands-Posten.

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Rob Walker

at 07:44 on February 13th, 2008

Good for them, as someone whose student newspaper was banned for re-printing the cartoons, I fully support this action. It still blows my mind that people are willing to plant bombs because of a couple silly cartoons, no matter how offensive they may seem.

Barry Artiste

at 07:54 on February 13th, 2008

Yay for free speech, somehow though I think those who plotted and carried out a journalists demise and others who may soon follow may think otherwise. Nothing like inflaming those who are all too willing to place a Paper Target over your face in al jazeera, but hey Free Speech Yay!!!! Silly cartoon? Of course, but some relish the fact that strapping 40 pounds of plastic explosives and walking into a NewsRoom will get them martyrdom and a a thousand virgin babes, kind of hard to reason with someone bent on getting laid in the afterlife. But Hey, Free Speech, YAY!!!! Just make sure you warn the public about frequenting your place of business.