A majority in the city council wants to rename one of the city’s street after cartonist Kurt Vestergaard. In 2005 Vestergaards drawings of the Prophet Muhammed, published in the national newspaper Jyllands-Posten based in Aarhus, sparked the so-called Muhammed-crisis in Denmark.
By Oskar H. Sylvestersen & Natalie Rocha
Denmark was affected by the Muhammed-crisis in many ways. Danish flags were destroyed, embassies raided and burnt, diplomatic ties cut and Danish goods were boycotted all over the Muslim world.
Now 18 years later the city council has agreed to rename the street where Jyllands-Posten’s former administrative building was located after Vesterggard.
Jakob Søgaard Clausen the council member (DanishDemocrats) who proposed the name change, advocated for the change with the following;
“It’s where Jyllands-Posten and the Muhammed drawings were made. It was the hearth of a very large and important part of Danish history.”