{"id":3091,"date":"2008-02-13T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/02\/13\/newspapers-re-print-controversial-muhammad-cartoon\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T17:32:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:32:39","slug":"newspapers-re-print-controversial-muhammad-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/13\/newspapers-re-print-controversial-muhammad-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers re-print controversial Muhammad cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"214\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/DanishCartoonsprotest232x18-.jpg\"\/>A NUMBER of Danish newspapers have reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad which caused Muslim outrage over two years ago.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The caricatures, which spurred deadly protests in the Muslim world in 2005, were reprinted just hours after the police intelligence agency, PET revealed they had foiled a plot to assassinate Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard whose drawings sparked outrage.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin were detained yesterday after the assassination plot came to light, officials have said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which first published 12 depictions of the Prophet Muhammad on Sept. 30, 2005, reprinted Kurt Westergaard&#8217;s cartoon in its Wednesday edition.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Several other major dailies also reprinted the drawing, which shows Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper will always defend,&#8221; said the Copenhagen-based Berlingske Tidende.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The cartoon by Westergaard and 11 others sparked deadly protests across the Muslim world when they were published two years ago in a range of Western newspapers.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NUMBER of Danish newspapers have reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad which caused Muslim outrage over two years ago. &#13; The caricatures, which spurred deadly protests in the Muslim world in 2005, were reprinted just hours after the police intelligence agency, PET revealed they had foiled a plot to assassinate Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}