Danish cartoon outrage

Updated on 31 January 2006

By Jon Snow

A sacrilegious cartoon in a Danish newspaper charactering the Prophet Mohammed could plunge Europe into a trade war with the Muslim world.

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A row over inciting religious hatred has made Denmark the unlikely target of violent street protests across the Arab world. It's all because of a series of cartoons were published in a Danish newspaper - portraying the Prophet Mohammed as a terrorist.

With ANY depiction of the Prophet regarded as blasphemous in Islam, the cartoons have caused outrage in many Muslim countries.

Joining us was Inayat Bunglawala from the Muslim Council of Britain and from Westminster we were joined by the Telegraph columnist Charles Moore to debate the matter.

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