DAccording to unanimous media reports, the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard passed away. He died peacefully after a long illness at the age of 86. As the Berlinske newspaper reported on Sunday, quoting his family.
In 2005, the “Jyllands-Posten” newspaper published a series of Prophet Mohammed (Prophet Mohammed) cartoons, which made Westgard famous all over the world Second World War Crashed. Four months after publication, people in many Islamic countries used these cartoons as opportunities for mass protests, some of which were violent. Among them, the embassies of Denmark and even Norway were attacked, and dozens of people were killed.
Cartoon disputes trigger diplomatic resentment
This Danish TV Channel TV 2 According to his own information, Carsten Juste, the former editor-in-chief of the “Jutland Post”, confirmed the death of Westergaard.Danish Public Service Broadcasting Corporation DR Sunday report Refers to an old friend of Westgard.
The so-called cartoon dispute has also triggered diplomatic dissatisfaction between various Islamic countries and Denmark. In the country and abroad, these events have triggered heated debates about the boundaries between freedom of speech and religious freedom.
Westergaard was just one of several cartoonists who responded to the appeal of the “Jutland Post”. But his portrayal of Muhammad caused the greatest outrage among Muslims. It shows the Prophet wearing a bomb-shaped headscarf. The teacher who has studied German has been working as a cartoonist in a conservative Danish newspaper since the 1980s, and has had to surround him with bodyguards ever since. In 2010, a 28-year-old man broke into his home with an axe and he almost escaped the attack.
