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For many observers, the worldwide furore resulting from the publication of 12 cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammad in a small Danish newspaper during the autumn of 2005 proved difficult to understand. Interviews conducted by the BBC evoked characterizations of the crisis as ‘ridiculous,’ and ‘absolutely too much’ (Buchanan 2006), and an American columnist confessed to being ‘perplexed’ at what he considered to be the ‘gross overreaction by average Muslims around the world,’ provoked by what were, after all, ‘only’ cartoons (Nethaway 2006).
I don’t think that Mohammad will be drawn in a Danish newspaper for the next 50 years.
(Carsten Juste, editor-in-chief of the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, 2006)
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Collins, C., Douglass, D. (2013). Representation and Resemblance in the Case of the Danish Cartoons. In: Attwood, F., Campbell, V., Hunter, I.Q., Lockyer, S. (eds) Controversial Images. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291998_3
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