Description: An official blog and website for Jytte Klausen's book "The Cartoons That Shook the World" from Yale University Press.
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"A thoroughly researched, empathetic, and thoroughly moral and compassionate account…should shake easy and complacent assumptions on all sides." — Aziz Huq, altmulsim.com
"Deeply researched and sensitively written, this tells a story that has to be told.." — Baroness Kishwer Falkner, Member of the House of Lords
On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Five months later, thousands of Muslims inundated the newspaper with outpourings of anger and grief by phone, email, and fax; from Asia to Europe Muslims took to the streets in protest. This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the conflict that aroused impassioned debates around the world on freedom of expression, blasphemy, and the nature of modern Islam.