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Cartoonist Lars Vilks Attacked for Showing Prophet Mohammed in Gay Film [incl. Jytte Klausen, Yale University Press]

Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoon artist allegedly targeted by ‘Jihad Jane’ for portraying the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, was attacked Tuesday when he showed an Iranian film that depicts the Prophet in a gay bar. Are radical Muslims succeeding in muzzling f

May 12, 2010
Patrik Jonsson
The Christian Science Monitor

Swedish cartoon artist Lars Vilks, who became the target of an alleged international murder plot for his 2007 cartoons of Mohammed as a dog, again angered Muslims Tuesday by showing an Iranian film that depicts the Prophet entering a gay bar.

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