AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders said on Sunday he had ended a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, only hours after announcing the contentious event. End of contest", he wrote above a picture of what he said was the winning drawing, depicting an angry-looking man with a beard. Images of the Prophet Mohammad are traditionally forbidden in Islam as idolatrous. Wilders cancelled a similar contest in August last year after police arrested a man who had threatened to kill him over his plan. Wilders' anti-Islam Freedom Party is the second largest in Dutch parliament, but is not part of the government.

Source: thestar December 29, 2019 11:26 UTC