Some articles re: the ''Mohammed cartoons'' that you may have missed

Now that the cartoons are once again making headlines it might be interesting to take a look at some articles that people may have missed.

Many people believe that the cartoons were originally published just to annoy Muslims-- or for mere shock value-- which after all does sell newspapers. However that is not the case.

Rather, Flemming Rose, the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten, had a really good reason for publishing them. He explains his motivations in this article-- Why I Published Those Cartoons. (His reasons are probably quite different than you might imagine).












When the cartoons were first published there wasn't all that much controversy. In fact, after the original publication of the cartoons in Jyllands-Posten they were published (by Moslems) in Al Fager, an Egyptian paper-- with not a word of protest! (Cont'd).