Review: The Cartoons that Shook the World, by Jytte Klausen Cartoon logic

by Ezra Levant
The Globe and Mail
November 23, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/565

Excerpt:

In September, 2005, a Danish newspaper called the Jyllands-Posten conducted an experiment in free speech. Its editor, Flemming Rose, wrote to every editorial cartoonist in the country, inviting them to draw a caricature of Mohammed, Islam's Prophet. For Rose, it was a test: Was Denmark still a pluralist society with free speech and a separation of mosque and state, or had Danes begun to censor themselves in fear of Muslim violence?

Twelve cartoonists sent in their work. Some mocked the newspaper for being a provocateur; some were critical of jihad and Islam's treatment of women; still others were a neutral depiction of what Mohammed might have looked like. The news story was a one-day wonder.

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