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3 Danish Papers Reprint Cartoon of Muhammad

After arrests, country's leading dailies stand behind artist

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 13, 2008 6:10 AM CST
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(Newser) – After yesterday's arrest of three men allegedly plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist, the country's three largest newspapers all reprinted the offending cartoon, Bloomberg reports. Kurt Westergaard's controversial depiction of the prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb in his turban was originally printed in 2005 by Jyllands-Posten, which reproduced it again today. 

Berlingske Tidende, the country's oldest newspaper, had shied from initially printing the cartoon but defended its decision to do so today, saying in an editorial that the drawing was published "to document what's at stake and as unambiguous support for the freedom of expression." The Danish foreign ministry has said it is closely monitoring the reaction to the republication of Westergaard's cartoon.

A man walks past the Copenhagen offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008. Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings which appeared in the paper and which sparked a deadly uproar...
A man walks past the Copenhagen offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008. Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12...   (Associated Press)
Politiken, one of the three Danish newspapers that reprinted a controversial cartoon today.
Politiken, one of the three Danish newspapers that reprinted a controversial cartoon today.   ((c) angermann)
Carsten Juste, Editor-in-Chief of Denmark's biggest daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten, poses in Copenhagen in this June 30, 2007 file photo. Danish authorities on Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008, arrested two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin in an alleged plot to murder a cartoonist who drew a caricature of the Prophet...
Carsten Juste, Editor-in-Chief of Denmark's biggest daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten, poses in Copenhagen in this June 30, 2007 file photo. Danish authorities on Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008, arrested two Tunisians...   (Associated Press)
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