The most hated man in Mecca: Meet the cartoonist who set the world on fire

by Adrian Humphreys
National Post
October 4, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/486/the-most-hated-man-in-mecca-meet-the-cartoonist

Excerpt:

Despite a grey beard and heavy cane making him look every bit his 74 years, Kurt Westergaard dresses like a teenager: bright red cargo pants strapped up by a studded black belt and red suspenders over a black top, capped by a flowing red scarf and black Stetson.

His duo-chromatic clothing is perhaps the least shocking part of his appearance, however.

As the Danish man who drew the notorious cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad with a lit bomb wrapped in his turban -- considered the most inflammatory of 12 cartoons published four years ago this week that ignited a deadly furor -- it is the absence of security and the carefree way he stands outside smoking that is most striking.

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