Danish Muslim Leaders Critical of Publication of Turban-Bomb Cartoon

A day after federal officials arrested three men in connection to what has been reported as a plot to kill the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard for drawing the most notorious of the actual Danish Muhammed cartoons (as opposed to the alarming few that were made up and disseminated with the actual cartoons), a side issue has assumed some of the headlines: widespread criticism of the decision by Denmark newspapers to run the offending image along with their story. According to the Reuters article, a total of fifteen papers in Denmark ran the image, along with one in Sweden.

While I'm sympathetic to the notion that this is an offensive image, I think any journalistic entity is completely justified in running such a thing if by doing so they better inform their readers. That's what newspapers are supposed to do, and it's a distinction I think is important to draw especially if like me you're critical of the original stunt of commissioning and publishing the art by the newspaper Jyllands-Posten and don't feel that was done in service of a journalistic anything.
 
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