(Danish) Mohammed cartoonist opposes Koran burn

[Turborama]

Source: AFP

A DANISH cartoonist who sparked Muslim outrage in 2006 with a drawing of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb for a turban said today that burning the Koran, as planned by a US church, went too far.

"Satire is provocation. Picasso painted the town of Guernica after it was destroyed by German bombers (in 1937),'' Kurt Westergaard told the Die Welt daily in Germany, where he won an award last night.

"Provocation should lead to reflection, to enlightenment, to knowledge. In this case (burning the Koran), this is really not the case," the 75-year-old said.

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Westergaard's cartoon depicting Mohammed wearing a turban with a lit fuse was one of a dozen first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005 that caused anger and violent protests the following year, and earned him death threats.

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[Better Today]

1. Wow, I call hypocrit. Disrespecting a religion, is disrespecting a religion. Mocking or

broadly painting everyone in a religion to disrespect a few fanatics in that religion is still the same.

[closeupready]

2. Maybe he's changed his views? People can learn and improve themselves.

Give credit where credit is due.

[Better Today]

3. Did you read his opinion? Not the OPs but the cartoonist's?

He simultaneously trying to defend his BS while saying that Koran burning is offensive.

[snagglepuss]

4. No he hasn't changed his views. What he said is clear. Satire, which

includes satirizing sacred cows, is an intellectual excerise which requires an intellectual response unlike book burning which is simply an act, one I might add is anti-intellectual - just like riots against satire are anti-intellectual.

[mjane]

5. exactly

the mohammed cartoons were satire, much like we see in newspapers in the US. provocative? sure.

Similarly, Scorcese's Last Temptation of Christ was seen as sacriligous by many christians (just like the cartoons were by many Muslims) but was not merely desecration like the Quran burning.