Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders revives plan for Mohammad cartoon contest

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Last edited Sun Dec 29, 2019, 06:56 PM - Edit history (1)

Update: Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker ends Mohammad cartoon contest within hours (Reuters)

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS DECEMBER 28, 2019 / 5:47 PM / UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO

Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker revives plan for Mohammad cartoon contest

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders on Saturday said he had revived his plan to hold a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, more than a year after cancelling such an event out of fear for attacks in the Netherlands.

In a post on Twitter late on Saturday, Wilders called on people to send in their Mohammad cartoons.

“Freedom of speech must prevail over violence and Islamic fatwa’s”, the leader of the largest opposition party in the Dutch parliament wrote.

Wilders canceled a similar contest in August last year after police arrested a man who had threatened to kill him over his plan.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-cartoon-wilders/dutch-anti-islam-lawmaker-revives-plan-for-mohammad-cartoon-contest-idUSKBN1YW0H2

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1. Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker ends Mohammad cartoon contest within hours

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS DECEMBER 29, 2019 / 6:42 AM / UPDATED 12 HOURS AGO

Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker ends Mohammad cartoon contest within hours

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders said on Sunday he had ended a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, only hours after announcing the contentious event.

In a tweet posted on Sunday morning, Wilders said international attention on the contest had enabled him to make a point about the importance of freedom of speech.

“Mission accomplished. End of contest”, he wrote above a picture of what he said was the winning drawing, depicting an angry-looking man with a beard.

Images of the Prophet Mohammad are traditionally forbidden in Islam as idolatrous. Caricatures are regarded by most Muslims as highly offensive.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-cartoon-wilders/dutch-anti-islam-lawmaker-ends-mohammad-cartoon-contest-within-hours-idUSKBN1YX098

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2. Islamaphobia/Anti-Semitism

Mohammed was an Arab which makes him a Semite which makes Geert Wilders an Anti-Semite as well as a coward.