Denmark to store Muslim cartoons
Thu, Jan. 31, 2008

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The National Library said yesterday that it planned to archive the original caricatures of Muhammad that sparked violent protests across the Islamic world two years ago.

Despite objections from some Muslim leaders, the library in the Danish capital will preserve the 12 cartoons for research purposes but will not make them available to the public for at least 10 years, spokeswoman Jytte Pedersen said.

"It is not our intention to provoke or anything like that," she said. "We are preserving them for future generations."

The cartoons were first published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on Sept. 30, 2005, then reprinted by some Western newspapers. Protests erupted in Muslim countries where the cartoons were seen as insulting. - AP

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