Cartoonesque 14 – Muhammad Cartoons and Dutch media
Dutch newspaper AD reported about the death threats against Vilks and in that same article also showed the cartoon he draw. This led to complaints in some Muslim circles. So far nothing new. But the ensuing conflict shows how the freedom of speech has become a disciplining frame and the repeated publishing of the cartoons after complaints against it by Muslims, can be seen as an attempt to teach those Muslims who is boss here. A conflict such as this reveals the moral underpinnings of dealing with religious feelings and of secularist and believers going public in a time of islamophobia combined with the rise of religious movements that do not without conditions surrender to the secular truce.