Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has recommenced his plan to hold a competition for cartoons mimicking the Prophet Muhammad, more than a year after dropping such an event out of fear for assaults in the Netherlands.
However, on Saturday, Wilders called on people through a tweet to send in their cartoonist sketches of Prophet Muhammad.
The leader of the most significant opposition in the party quoted the actions by saying that Liberty of communication must prevail over violence and Islamic fatwas.
Geert Wilders had organised a similar event in August 2018, but the following arrest of a man who threatened to kill him, Wilders had to cancel the competition.
His actions had resulted in demonstrations in Pakistan, where Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik called upon Islamist countries to cut all their ties with the Netherlands.
Most Muslims regard caricatures as highly offensive and pictures of the Prophet Muhammad are forbidden in Islam.
In 2005, Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten printed animations of Prophet Muhammad that resulted in protests all across the Muslim communities, and there were several attempts to kill the magazine editor and Jyllands-Posten ‘s cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
Even in 2015, two Islamist gunmen killed 12 people at the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine which published satirical cartoons of Muhammad.