Kurt Westergaard

Kurt Westergaard

Kurt Westergaard (born July 13, 1935) is a Danish cartoonist who created the controversial cartoon of the Muslim prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban. This cartoon was the most contentious of the 12 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which received strong and sometimes violent reactions from Muslims and others worldwide. [cite web |first = Thomas |last = Buch-Andersen | url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5392786.stm |title = Denmark row: The power of cartoons |publisher = BBC News |date= October 3, 2006| accessmonthday = February 12 | accessyear = 2008] [cite web |url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article731005.ece |title = 70,000 gather for violent Pakistan cartoons protest |publisher = "Times Online" | date= February 15, 2006 |accessmonthday = February 12 | accessyear = 2008] Westergaard said that terrorism that received "spiritual ammunition" from Islam inspired him to draw the cartoon. [cite web | url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/danish-cartoonist-no-regrets-467064.html |title = Danish cartoonist: 'No regrets' |publisher = "The Independent" |date= February 19, 2006| accessmonthday = February 12 | accessyear = 2008]

On February 12, 2008, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service PET announced the arrest of three people—two Tunisians and one Dane of Moroccan origin—alleged to have been planning the murder of Westergaard. [cite web |first = |last = |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7240481.stm |title = Danish cartoons 'plotters' held |work = |publisher = BBC News |date= 12 February, 2008 |accessmonthday = February 12 | accessyear = 2008]

Following the release of Geert Wilders' film Fitna, which used Westergaard's cartoon without permission, Westergaard made a cartoon depicting Wilders with a bomb and a sign which reads: "Danger! Freedom of expression".cite news|url=http://www.spitsnieuws.nl/archives/binnenland/2008/03/westergaard_tekent_wilders.html|title=Westergaard tekent Wilders|date=2008-03-31|accessdate=2008-04-01|first=J.|last=Peters|work=SpitsNieuws|language=Dutch]

ee also

* Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

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