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Muhammad Cartoon Artist Now Homeless

Dane deemed 'too much of a security risk' for police protection

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 20, 2008 11:11 AM CST
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(Newser) – A Danish cartoonist who enraged the Muslim world in 2005 with his depiction of the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban is now homeless, Der Spiegel reports. Kurt Westergaard, 73, has been thrown out of his police-protected hotel room—where he was sent when authorities uncovered a plot to kill him—because he’s “too much of a security risk.”

Unsurprisingly, Westergaard isn’t happy about the predicament he and his wife are in. “Of course I fear for my life,” he said. “But I have turned my fear into anger and indignation.” The controversial cartoons were reprinted last week, but the Danish Islamic group that led 2006 protests was quiet this time, saying it is “unhappy,” but advocating dialogue, not violence.

Muslims protest against the re-publication of a cartoon this week of the Prophet Muhammad in Copenhagen, Denmark Friday Feb. 15, 2008. Imam Mostafa Chendid of the Islamic Faith Community Center urged youth to calm down and stop the recent burning of cars and property in Denmark, saying it was hurting...
Muslims protest against the re-publication of a cartoon this week of the Prophet Muhammad in Copenhagen, Denmark Friday Feb. 15, 2008. Imam Mostafa Chendid of the Islamic Faith Community Center urged...   (Associated Press)
File picture dated 2006 showing Kurt Westergaard, one of the Danish cartoonists who drew controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in Denmark?s biggest daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005. After being booted from his police-protected hotel room on Feb. 15 for being too much of a security risk the now 73-year-old cartoonist...
File picture dated 2006 showing Kurt Westergaard, one of the Danish cartoonists who drew controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in Denmark?s biggest daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005. After being...   (Getty Images)
Pakistani demonstrators burn a Danish flag during a protest rally in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, Feb. 15, 2008. Dozens of protesters demonstrated in Lahore on Friday to condemn the reprinting of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in Danish newspapers and to urge the government to expel Denmark's ambassador. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Pakistani demonstrators burn a Danish flag during a protest rally in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, Feb. 15, 2008. Dozens of protesters demonstrated in Lahore on Friday to condemn the reprinting of Prophet...   (Associated Press)
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