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** FILE ** Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose caricature of the Prophet Muhammad inflamed Islamist terror groups, is pictured at his home near Aarhus, Denmark, in June 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Hove Olsen, POLFOTO)

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Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard delivers his acceptance speech after receiving the M100 Media Prize 2010 in Potsdam near Berlin, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Westergaard drew the most controversial of 12 caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, which many Muslims considered offensive. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen, pool)

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Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who sparked Muslim anger with drawings of the Prophet Mohammed arrives for the awarding ceremony of the M100 media prize 2010, in Potsdam, Germany Wednesday Sept. 8, 2010. The prize will be given to Westergaard. (AP Photo/Johannes Eisele,Pool)

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Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard speaks at a news conference before receiving the M100 Media Prize 2010 in Potsdam, Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Mr. Westergaard drew the most controversial of 12 caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, which many Muslims considered offensive. The drawings sparked protests in January and February 2006 that culminated with the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in Damascus and Beirut and the death of dozens of people in Nigeria. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen, Pool)

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Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, left, is congratulated on his prize by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the former head of the state-funded body which manages the archives of the former East German secret police Stasi Joachim Gauck, center, after receiving the M100 Media Prize 2010 in Potsdam near Berlin, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Westergaard drew the most controversial of 12 caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, which many Muslims considered offensive. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen, pool)

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Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, second left, is congratulated on his prize by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the former head of the state-funded body which manages the archives of the former East German secret police Stasi Joachim Gauck, second right, as Potsdam's mayor Jann Jakobs looks on after receiving the M100 Media Prize 2010 in Potsdam near Berlin, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Westergaard drew the most controversial of 12 caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, which many Muslims considered offensive. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen, pool)

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Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard shows off his award after receiving the M100 Media Prize 2010 in Potsdam near Berlin, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Westergaard drew the most controversial of 12 caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, which many Muslims considered offensive. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen, pool)

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** FILE ** Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard sits in the offices of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published cartoons that outraged many Muslims. (AP Photo)