Muslim cartoons controversy 'will continue for years'

An editor of a Danish newspaper that published the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons said today that he expects the debate about self-censorship in the media and artists’ fear of offending Islam to continue for years.

The Jyllands-Posten daily in 2005 published 12 drawings, one of them showing Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse. Another portrayed him with a bushy grey beard, holding a sword.