Call for probe of Muslim group's involvement in cartoon case

Denmark’s main opposition party and a government ally today called for an investigation of a national Muslim group’s Middle East trip, which has been blamed for fanning the furore over a newspaper’s publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Anger over the cartoons had simmered within Denmark after the Jyllands-Posten daily published them on September 30, but then exploded internationally after an umbrella organisation of Danish Muslims took the caricatures to the Middle East in December and January to seek support from religious and political leaders.