Danish party wants to use Muhammad cartoons – not allowed – VG

Danish conservative and anti-Islamic national party Nye Borgerlige will use Charlie Hebdo cartoons of Muhammad in its advertisements.

But the French satire magazine says no.

Initially, Weekendavisen, BT and Berlingske were to run the ads. This has created unrest among Berlingske employees, according to the Danish newspaper Journalisten. Now the publication does not matter.

At the request of the cartoonists, Charlie Hebdo rejected Nye Borgerlige’s request to use the drawings. The magazine also points out that they do not share views with the party.

This is what Charlie Hebdo’s PR agency affirms to the Danish Ekstra Bladet.

According to Store Norske Leksikon, the new bourgeois are national conservatives and are on the outer right wing.

The party says they wanted to share the drawings because French school teacher Samuel Paty used them in his teaching on freedom of expression, Ritzau writes. The 47-year-old man was brutally murdered in the French suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in October.

Paty was a professor of history and geography and showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in connection with an hour on free speech. Among the things it showed are two cartoons that have previously been published by the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was the target of a brutal terrorist attack in 2015.

Give up

According to Ritzau, Nye Borgerlige has raised around 300,000 crowns from people who wanted to contribute to the publication of the Muhammad cartoons.

On Monday night, the party writes on its own website that they are giving up on running the ads. They claim that the ads are not political, but that the message is a defense of freedom of expression and a statement of sympathy for Samuel Paty.

They also write that everyone who has donated will get their money back.