Just after the 12 Danish cartoons were published, a delegation of Danish imams went to the Middle East to ‘discuss’ the issue of the cartoons with senior officials and prominent Islamic scholars.
The imams openly distributed a booklet that showed 15 images - not only the original 12 cartoons, but an additional three FAKE anti-Mohammed depictions that were MUCH MORE OFFENSIVE than the ones published in Denmark.
It is now thought that these three bonus images are what ignited the outrage in the Muslim world.
The newspaper ‘Ekstra Bladet’ obtained a copy of the booklet and presented the three offensive images on its Web site. (This Web site also has all 43 pages of the booklet available for download.) The fake images all look like low-quality photocopies.
They show:
• Mohammed with a pig snout, singing into a microphone ... this is actually just a bad photocopy of an AP news photo from last year showing French comedian Jacques Barrot competing in a pig-squealing contest while wearing a rubber pig nose. The Danish imams passed it off as a blasphemous image of Mohammed for the purpose of stirring up resentment and anger.
• A dog and Mohammed engaged in a vile act, with a caption saying, “This is why Muslims pray.â€
• A sketch of Mohammed as a demonic paedophile.
Hear more in the audio: 'The Mohammed CARTOONS – A Biblical View.'