Description of the prophet muhammad

On Tuesday, Danish Immigration, Integration and Housing Minister Inger Stoejberg published a polemic portrayal of Islam's Prophet Muhammad on social media. The caricature portrays the religion's founder with a bomb fuse burning down on his turban and was one of the dozen published by the right-wing Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005 that caused international outcry and allegations of racism.

Images of Muhammad are considered blasphemous in Islam.

Stoejberg, who decides on conditions for immigrants — many from majority Muslim countries — in Denmark apparently uses the drawing as the wallpaper on her iPad.

In a Facebook post accompanying the caricature, Stoejberg wrote that the cartoon serves as the backdrop for her apps because it reminds her of Denmark's freedom of expression, which includes the right to mock religions and their followers.

She claimed that she published it on Facebook as a reaction to a decision by the Skovgaard Mus