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SHOWING MORE COURAGE THAN YALE: Danish cartoons go on exhibit. ?The caricature?one of twelve sat?

By Glenn Reynolds

SHOWING MORE COURAGE THAN YALE: Danish cartoons go on exhibit. “The caricature?one of twelve satiric drawings published in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten?represents Muhammad wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb with a lit fuse. Muslims found the drawing, which confounds the prophet with terrorism, offensive. The seventy-four-year-old Westergaard had words of praise for the gallery director, Erik Guldager. ?[He] is the first to dare to exhibit my works, even if my watercolors are not political.? In May 2008, Westergaard received the Sappho Prize from the Society for the Protection of the Freedom of Expression of the Press and the Right to Criticize Religion. Westergaard had originally hoped to show his watercolors in an unnamed gallery in Hoejbjerg near Aarhus. But his participation was canceled when an unnamed Swedish artist invited to participate in the same exhibition threatened to pull out if Westergaard showed his works.” The unnamed Swedish artist, not so much.

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