Wednesday, February 01, 2006

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | France enters Muslim cartoon row

A French newspaper has published the cartoons that caused threats against a Danish newspaper, as well as one of its own. From the BBC:

Under the headline "Yes, we have the right to caricature God", France Soir ran a front page cartoon of Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian gods floating on a cloud.

It shows the Christian deity saying: "Don't complain, Muhammad, we've all been caricatured here."

The full set of Danish drawings, some of which depict the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist, were printed on the inside pages.

hat tip: normblog

Update: French newspaper surrenders. GaijinBiker has the news that the managing editor of the above paper has been fired for running the cartoons. He also has a bit of biting commentary in response...

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