“My view is no cartoon is as insulting to Islam as the assumption Muslims will react with violence,” the newspaper’s editor Nic Dawes defended.įriday, the paper reported it was receiving a flood of angry calls, and had even received death threats against the cartoonist.Ī spokesman for the Media Review Network, a group that lobbies on Muslim affairs, told Johannesburg’s 702 radio station he was “greatly” disappointed by the ruling and appealed for calm in the Muslim community. The council had warned of a possible violent backlash and said the timing was bad, given the alleged threat to the World Cup. Thursday evening, the Mail & Guardian won an eleventh-hour court case taken by the Council of Muslim Theologians to try to bar the publication of the cartoon. “Other prophets have followers with a sense of humour!” the turbaned, bearded figure, who is stretched out on the psychiatrist’s couch, complains. Twelve were killed and thirteen injured in the attack.Johannesburg, May 22: Days after an alleged Al Qaeda operative detailed sketchy plans to attack the football World Cup over cartoons of Prophet Mohammed(PBUH), a newspaper in South Africa has caused controversy by also publishing cartoons of the Prophet.Ī cartoon by award-winning satirist Jonathan Shapiro in the Mail & Guardian weekly newspaper Friday shows the Prophet Mohammed(PBUH) grumbling to a psychiatrist about the furore in the Muslim world created by a Facebook page called Everybody draw Muhammad Day. In January 2015, two brothers claiming to belong to al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French weekly magazine known for publishing provocative cartoons, including of the Prophet Muhammad. In 2005, Danish Newspaper Jyllands-Posten published editorial cartoons that depicted the prophet, sparking protests around the world, including some violent demonstrations. Wilders’ recent calls for depictions of the Prophet Muhammad were not the first time such publications have led to outrage or violence. He was later acquitted of those charges.īut in 2016 he was found guilty of incitement and encouraging discrimination towards Moroccans, though he faced no penalty. In 2010, the lawmaker was accused of inciting discrimination and hatred as well as criminally insulting ethnic and religious groups. Still, the drama put Wilders, the leader of the right-wing, anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, who is a frequent critic of Islam, back in the spotlight. The decision to cancel the cartoon contest was hailed as a diplomatic victory for the Pakistani foreign ministry, which had expressed its concern to the Netherlands and also held talks with protest leaders to negotiate an end to the march. “I don’t want Muslims to use the cartoon competition as an excuse for Islamist violence,” he said in a statement. In the Netherlands, a man was detained after threatening to attack Wilders or the Dutch parliament.Įventually, the outcry led Wilders to call off the planned contest “to avoid the risk of making people victims of Islamist violence.” Khalid Latif, a prominent former Pakistani cricket player, offered a $28,000 reward for whoever would “kill the Dutchmen” responsible for the contest. There were also calls for violence and death threats in response to the planned contest. “We are on roads to show to the world that we can die to protect the honor of our Prophet,” Khadim Hussain Rizvi, head of the Tehreek-i-Labaik party that led the protest, told demonstrators.
The contest, planned by Dutch politician Geert Wilders for November would have seen participants submit depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, which is considered by many to be a grave offense in Islam.Īngered by the Dutch lawmaker’s plans, some 10,000 Islamists in Pakistan began marching towards the country’s capital, calling on newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan to sever ties with the Netherlands. TUNIS - A controversial Dutch parliamentarian cancelled a planned Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest after it sparked outrage and protests by some Muslims, particularly in Pakistan.
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