STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish artist displayed a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad to a seminar in Stockholm on Tuesday despite a death threat from al-Qaida in Iraq.

"Nobody has really seen this image and it has just become more and more impossible to show it, so I thought that ordinary people should be given the possibility to see it live," Lars Vilks told a crowd of about 100 people at a seminar.

He then held up the drawing — a rough sketch depicting Muhammad's head on a dog's body — to applause from the crowd at the Berwaldhallen concert hall in the Swedish capital.

On Saturday, the putative leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, offered rewards for the killing of Vilks and a Swedish newspaper editor who published the cartoon on Aug. 19.

AP

Our newspapers are full of politicians and culture workers trying to say how awful this artist has behaved. Mind you, this is people who took to the streets a few years ago to defend the right to show naked gay jesus and crosses in piss.

Consistensy? Not if you're a leftist!

Warp_speed are you sure you really are from Europe? I think you were raised by wolves. It's the only explanation for a sane, rational, well thought point involving Islam that does not involve blaming the U.S. for all the problems in the world.