That is the question! I came across the following article today, and found it quite difficult to decide wether the cartoon should have been censored out of the newspaper, or if a group of people's pride could be directly insulted without reprocussions...hmm. What do you think?
Danish Muhammad cartoon reprinted
They say they wanted to
show their commitment to freedom of speech after an alleged plot to
kill one of the cartoonists behind the drawings.
Of three suspects detained over the alleged plot on Tuesday, one - a Danish citizen - was released on Wednesday.
The remaining two - Tunisian citizens - are set to be deported without trial.
The cartoons were originally published by Jyllands-Posten in September 2005.
Danish embassies were attacked around the world and dozens died in riots that followed.
Papers defiant
Jyllands-Posten and many other major newspapers, including Politiken
and Berlingske Tidende, reprinted the caricature in their Wednesday
editions.
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I have turned fear into anger and resentment
Kurt Westergaard
Cartoonist
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The cartoon depicts Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.
The editors said no-one should feel their life was threatened because of a drawing.
"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 said.
The cartoon was also broadcast on national television,
and even newspapers that were originally against the publication of the
caricatures are now backing the campaign to defend freedom of speech,
says the BBC's Thomas Buch-Andersen in Copenhagen.
No strong reactions to the republication had been observed,......
