Last September, Danish author Kare Bluitgen was set to publish a book on the Muslim prophet Muhammad, but there was just one catch: he couldn’t find an illustrator.
Artistic representations of the human form are forbidden in Islam, and pictures of Muhammad are especially taboo so three artists turned down Bluitgen's offer to illustrate the book for fear that they would pay with their lives for doing so.
Frants Iver Gundelach, president of the Danish Writers Union, decried this as a threat to free speech and the largest newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, responded. They approached forty artists asking for depictions of Muhammad and received in response twelve cartoons of the Prophet.
Then some Muslim leaders in Denmark presented a case against the newspaper, but the judge refused to consider it because it is not against the law!
The EU supported Denmark in its refusal to apologise to Muslims under the allegations of democracy and freedom of speech!
The Danish newspaper mocked at the Muslims, they thought that Muslims will not react positively to defend their prophet!
The cartoons were first printed in the Danish newspaper in September 30, 2005. Then a Norwegian magazine reprinted the cartoons in January 10, 2006.
Then newspapers in France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Austria reprinted them for supporting what they call "Freedom of Speech"!
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