Mohammed cartoon reprinted

The most controversial of the twelve Mohammed caricatures published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 has been reprinted today by various European newspapers. Kurt Westergaard's cartoon, of Mohammed wearing a bomb instead of a turban, came to symbolise the entire controversy. (He was filmed by the BBC drawing a new version of the image last year.)

Danish police have arrested three people who were allegedly plotting to murder Westergaard. To show solidarity with the cartoonist, and to defend free speech, his cartoon has been reprinted today by as many as seventeen Danish newspapers (including Politiken, Berlingske Tidende, and Ekstra Bladet, as well as Jyllands-Posten) and by newspapers in Spain, Holland, and Sweden. (All twelve of the original cartoons were reprinted extensively in 2006.) Politiken has printed a partially-drawn version of the Westergaard image on its front page.