Gunmen storm EU office over cartoons
`Masked Palestinian gunmen have briefly taken over a European Union office to protest a Danish newspaper’s publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
The 12 drawings – published last September by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and republished in a Norwegian paper this month – included an image of the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse.
Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the prophet, even respectful ones, out of concern that such images could lead to idolatry.’
