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This is what the original Jyllands-Posten page looked like. Notice that there were only 12 cartoons.
(Hat tip: Joanna.)
As seen here, on May 28, 2006, the left-wing Danish newspaper Politiken also reprinted the cartoons, thinking themselves immune to attacks from Muslims because they reprinted the cartoons only for the purpose of criticizing them. Politiken has had a grudge against JyllandsPosten ever since the cartoon scandal broke.
(Hat tip: SpartacusDk.)
In early 2008, Kurt Westergaard, the artist who drew the original "exploding head" Mohammed, drew this follow-up version of it, which he explained thusly: "It is me on the right. My head is about to explode of anger concerning the insult to my person. At the same time I am angry about the actions of terror in New York, Madrid and London. I had a special personal relation to New York. I loved to sit in the wonderful bookstore, Borders, in the World Trade Center. To the left I have added the old drawing of Mohammad, because it started it all. The hare symbolizes my own personal courage, which is not that big. It is the part of me, which maybe prefers to get away, and that cannot control everything."
(Hat tip: Infidel Blogger's Alliance.)
Arabic text in the booklet as well.) The fake images all look like low-quality photocopies. Here they are:
(Hat tip: Gerry, Martin H., and rfs.)
Mohammed with a pig snout, singing into a microphone. Neander News discovered that this fraudulent image of "Mohammed" was actually just a bad photocopy of an AP news photo from last year showing French comedian Jacques Barrot competing in a pig-squealing contest while wearing a rubber pig nose. The Danish imams passed it off as a blasphemous image of Mohammed for the purpose of stirring up resentment and anger.
(Hat tip: Archive readers.)
A sketch of Mohammed as a demonic pedophile. While people across the Middle East are rioting over the publication of the 12 cartoons in European papers, no one seems to have minded that the cartoons were printed last fall in an
Egyptian paper as well. So far, 143 newspapers around the world have published the Danish cartoons. You can see a full list of them at the Danish news site eJour. (Hat tip: foreign devil.) An English transcript of an interview with Kurt Westergaard (the artist who drew the most famous of the 12 cartoons, showing Mohammed with a bomb in his turban) can be found on the "Tabooh" blog site (though it currently seems to be offline); the interview also includes Kasem Said Ahmad, one of the Danish imams who traveled to the Middle East to stir up anger about the cartoons. During the interview, Westergaard refuses to apologize for freedom of speech, saying he would do it all over again if given a chance; then Ahmad becomes furious and tries to end the interview and stop the camera crew from filming. You can download the entire Danish-language video (88mb QuickTime file) by right-clicking (Windows) or control-clocking (Mac) here. The entire controversy started when Danish author Kre Bluitgen complained that he could not find an artist brave enought to illustrate his upcoming book about Mohammed. The newspaper Jyllands-Posten issued a call for submissions from any artists willing to take up the challenge. In the ensuing brouhaha, the original book was almost forgotten; it has now been released, and does feature page after page of Mohammed depictions. This site features scans of several of the pages (hat tip: nord, Rune, Kim and Mikkel.), as does the "Face of Mohammed" blog, and the WikiIslam page. (This Danish blog also has some information about the release of the book.) The images below are sample pages taken from the book (titled Koranen og profeten Muhammeds liv, or The Koran and the life of the prophet Mohammed in English), which overall features dozens of drawings of Mohammed. The artist created the illustrations on one condition only: that he remain anonymous.
The cover, showing Mohammed riding on Buraq, his magical flying animal.
Mohammed preaching.
Muslims in battle against infidels. (It's not clear which person in this drawing is Mohammed.)
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