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Holy Prophet Insulting cartoon Republished in Sweden

10/03/2010 Abusing Islam continues to reach on Wednesday Sweden. Swedish newspapers on this day republished an insulting cartoon of the holy Prophet Mohammed (pbuh).

Sweden's paper of reference Dagens Nyheter published the controversial drawing.
This insult would be repeated by the cartoonist Lars Vilks "if the occasion was right," he told the TV4 commercial broadcaster.
"One is allowed to insult all religions but not Islam. That is the exception. There is a problem there," Vilks claimed.

The Expressen tabloid also published the cartoon, saying it was important "to defend freedom of expression which is more and more threatened."
"An open society must show that it will not give in to threats, that it is ready to fight for freedom of expression," added the daily in an editorial.

The regional daily Nerikes Allehanda started the controversy when it first published Vilks' insulting cartoon on August 18, 2007 to "illustrate an editorial on the importance of freedom of expression". But that paper did not choose to republish the drawing on Wednesday.
"I don't think it is relevant to publish the picture," Nerikes Allehanda's chief editor Ulf Johansson, wrote in the paper.
"If I were to publish it, it would have another symbolical value than when other papers publish it. Dagens Nyheter has published the picture three to four times already and no one has cared," he added.

The Aftonbladet tabloid, which published the drawing in 2007, also refrained from republishing it Wednesday, with chief editor Jan Hellin insisting "the picture has no news value today."
"Publishing the same picture now would ... only increase the level of conflict and provocation in a situation that requires enlightenment, discussion," he wrote.

Earlier Vilks was targeted by an alleged assassination plot. Irish police on Tuesday arrested seven suspected of killing Vilks because of his cartoon, in an operation coordinated with US and European security agencies.

(AFP)