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  • More papers (French and German) join cartoon furore

    02/01/2006 8:07:10 AM PST · by Sometimes A River · 45 replies · 1,879+ views
    Al jazeera ^ | Wednesday 01 February 2006
    Both a French and a German newspaper have reprinted a series of 12 Danish newspaper cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad that have sparked protests in the Muslim world. ... Because no religious dogma can impose its view on a democratic and secular society, France Soir publishes the incriminated cartoons," the paper said ... 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 apologised for causing offense. "Democracy is the institutionalised form of freedom of expression," the paper said in a front-page commentary....