Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders on Saturday said he had revived his plan to hold a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, more than a year after<\/p>\n
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Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders on Saturday said he had revived his plan to hold a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, more than a year after cancelling such an event out of fear for attacks in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
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In a post on Twitter late on Saturday, Wilders called on people to send in their Mohammad cartoons.<\/p>\n
\u201cFreedom of speech must prevail over violence and Islamic fatwa\u2019s\u201d, the leader of the largest opposition party in the Dutch parliament wrote.<\/p>\n
Wilders canceled a similar contest in August last year after police arrested a man who had threatened to kill him over his plan.<\/p>\n
Caricatures of revered personalities are regarded as highly offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders on Saturday said he had revived his plan to hold a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, more than a year after Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders on Saturday said he had revived his plan to hold a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, more than a year …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n