Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused a storm of protest throughout the Islamic world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ, it has emerged today. The daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny. "In the Muhammad drawings case, we asked the illustrators to do it. I did not ask for these cartoons. That's the difference," the paper's cartoon editor said.
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