Wilders Not Prosecuted for Showing Danish Cartoons

19.08.09, NIS NEWS (NL). The Public Prosecutor's Office (OM) will not prosecute MP Geert Wilders for showing the 'Danish cartoons' of the Prophet Mohammed. The drawings are not illegal in the Netherlands, said a spokeswoman for the OM in Amsterdam yesterday. After a Danish newspaper published 12 cartoons of the Islamic Prophet in 2006, riots broke out in several countries. The OM has now concluded that under Dutch law, the cartoons are not offensive to Muslims as a group; they are about the Prophet Mohammed, but say nothing about all Muslims. Nor do they incite discrimination or violence against Muslims, according to the OM.