05 October 2010

Norway: Paper destroys possibly provocative illustration

Five years after the Mohammed-cartoon controversy, it recently flared up again, following a couple of terror plots and a book about the controversy. Kurt Westergaard intends to publish an autobiography next month which is expected to include the cartoons.

Jan O. Henriksen illustrated the debate with a satiric illustration on the last page of the Uke-Adressa section of Adresseavisen. When the newspaper management saw the cartoon, they immediately destroyed 90,000 copies of the paper. [Islam in Europe] Read more