Mohammed cartoonist accuses BBC of 'appeasing Muslim fanatics by not showing interview'

by Paul Revoir
Daily Mail
April 3, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1549/mohammed-cartoonist-accuses-bbc-of-appeasing

Excerpt:

The BBC has been accused of appeasement of radical Islam by the artist behind one of the infamous cartoons of Mohammed.

Kurt Westergaard claims the corporation's decision not to air a recent interview with him came because they are petrified of upsetting Muslims extremists.

Westergaard was one of the 12 cartoonists commissioned by the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005 to produce caricatures of the Muslim prophet.

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