Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard died July 14. His drawing of Islam’s prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban was among 12 cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten on September 30, 2005 that enraged Muslims worldwide. The newspaper’s then-culture editor, Flemming Rose, who oversaw the cartoons’ publication, has documented in detail this Cartoon Crisis […]
Germany’s Spiegel claims Muhammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard responsible for jihad terror
It is a basic principle that is being obscured: if you insult me and I hit you, the responsibility lies entirely with me. It doesn’t matter what you said. I didn’t have to react violently. I could have reacted in any number of other ways. The people who are responsible for the riots and murders […]
The Paradox of Muhammad Cartoonist Kurt Westergaard
My latest in PJ Media: One of the most consequential and least-known people of this young century died last Wednesday: Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. You may not be familiar with Westergaard’s name, but you almost certainly know his most celebrated work: the cartoon of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, with a bomb in his […]
On 10th anniversary of publication of Muhammad cartoons, Danish newspaper submits: reprints original page without cartoons
The President of the United States, the Pope, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and virtually every other Western leader has decided: the freedom of speech must be sacrificed to those who will kill us for exercising it. They have all told us that the proper response to violent intimidation is to give in to […]