BERLIN (AP) _ A German newspaper on Wednesday reproduced a controversial drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad, arguing that a ``right to blasphemy'' was anchored in democratic freedoms.
The drawing, which shows the prophet's turban transformed into a bomb, was one of several published in a Danish paper in September, which sparked outrage and boycotts in Islamic countries.
The caricatures offended Muslims both because of their critical content and because Islam forbids representations of Muhammad out of concern they could lead to idolatry.
But the German Welt daily put one of the drawings on its front page on Wednesday, saying the picture was ``harmless'' and regretting that the Danish Jyllands-Posten daily had apologized for causing offense. ``Democracy is the institutionalized form of freedom of expression,'' the paper said in a front-page commentary. ``There is no right to protection from satire in the West; there is a right to blasphemy.''
The French newspaper France-Soir also published the caricatures on Wednesday, saying that religious dogma has no place in a secular society.
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The muslim world had no problems showing pictures stolen from a porn website and running them as "proof" of "American soldiers" raping "mulsim women" in Iraq at the time of the Abu Ghraib scandal. Thopse fake but accurate photos eventually were even printed in Ted Kennedy's hometown paper, the Boston Globe.
Berliner Zeiting is as well publishing the drawings.
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