textbook withdrawn for Mohammed cartoon

A new school textbook has been withdrawn from publication in Norway, as it reprints a Mohammed cartoon and makes an inaccurate claim about the Danish newspaper which originally printed it.

Henry Notaker's book, Eksistens, includes the infamous caricature of Mohammed drawn by Kurt Westergaard, which was originally printed in Jyllands-Posten alongside eleven other caricatures in 2005. Notaker writes that Jyllands-Posten also printed a cartoon of Mohammed with a pig's tail, though this is incorrect and no such illustration has been published.

Westergaard's cartoon came to symbolise the controversy surrounding the twelve original Jyllands-Posten drawings. It was removed from the online film Fitna in April, reprinted by European newspapers in February, and redrawn for the BBC last year.