A New Danish Muhammad Cartoon

A controversy over a new Danish cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad could be brewing, according to today's Jakarta, Indonesia Post. On Friday, Denmark's national TV2 channel broadcast a video showing a drawing contest at a summer camp run by the far-right Danish People's Party. One of the drawings was a camel with Muhammad's head and beer bottles as humps. The 20 and 30 year olds participating in the contest appeared to have been drinking alcohol and were laughing at the drawing. Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Indonesia's Islamic organization, Muhammadiyah, urged that a lawsuit be filed against those producing the drawings for slandering Islam. However he urged followers not to over react, saying the airing may have been deliberately intended to provoke anger during Ramadan.