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Mohammed cartoonist accuses BBC of 'appeasing Muslim fanatics by not showing interview'
by Paul Revoir
Mail Online
April 3, 2009
https://www.legal-project.org/248/mohammed-cartoonist-accuses-bbc-of-appeasing
Excerpt:
The BBC has been accused of appeasement of radical Islam by the artist behind one of the infamous cartoons of Mohammed.
Kurt Westergaard claims the corporation's decision not to air a recent interview with him came because they are petrified of upsetting Muslims extremists.
Westergaard was one of the 12 cartoonists commissioned by the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005 to produce caricatures of the Muslim prophet.
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