Geert Wilders plans to hold a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad

Geert Wilders is an anti-Islam Dutch politician who has revived his plan to hold a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad. Almost after one year of cancelling such an event on the pretext of threats and fear of attacks, he is back in the news with his plan. 

On late Saturday through a tweet, he called upon people to send their cartoons on Muhammad. “Freedom of speech must prevail over violence and Islamic fatwas" he wrote. 

Last year in August he cancelled the similar contest after cops arrested a man who threatened to kill him over his plan. The plan also led to a massive outrage in Pakistan organised under the helm of the Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik. The demonstrators, protestors demanded all Islamist countries sever their ties with the Netherlands.

One must note, images of the Prophet Muhammad are forbidden in Islam. Most Muslims take caricatures of Muhammad as highly offensive.

Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper published cartoons of Muhammad in 2005 leading to a series of demonstration across the Muslim world. There were several attempts to kill the editor and the cartoonist of the newspaper. 

Ten years later, two Islamist gunmen killed 12 people at the office of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The magazine was known for publishing satirical cartoons of Muhammad. 

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