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One of the most consequential and least-known people of this young century died last Wednesday: Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

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You may not be familiar with Westergaard’s name, but you almost certainly know his most celebrated work: the cartoon of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, with a bomb in his turban. That was the cartoon that set off worldwide rioting and a campaign that has now lasted for a decade and a half to compel the West to criminalize criticism of Islam under the guise of “hate speech.” The Left’s present all-out war against the freedom of speech began in great part in the furor over Westergaard’s cartoon.

Westergaard’s cartoon was the most arresting and provocative of the twelve cartoons of  Muhammad that were published in the largest newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, on September 30, As the book Islamophobia and Free Speech explains, the paper wasn’t trying to be gratuitously insulting.

In the wake of the jihad murder of Theo Van Gogh, Danish author Kåre