Eventually a bounty has been placed on the head of the cartoonist who drew a cartoon of Muhammed as a dog. For his death, $100 000 has been offered by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq, a group linked to al-Qaeda. He also threatened attacks on Swedish businesses in a half-hour audiotape posted on a website on Saturday if Sweden did not apologise.

Source: Al Jazeera - 15/09/07 --> Read the article

* This is the first result of this controversial cartoon issue that involves the possibility of violence. So far, this issue had been more calmly dealt with than other similar issues.
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* Two leading European Muslim organizations, The 29-nation Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe and the The Dublin-based European Council for Fatwa and Research have condemned the threats. The latter is reported to have said that it is planning to issue a counter-fatwa because it finds the issued death sentence 'haram'.
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* Sweden has already formally apologised.
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* The Swedish police have ordered artist Lars Vilks out of his own home telling him it is no longer safe for him to live there. (...) Vilks also received support of the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders Monday, saying what it calls barbaric fundamentalism cannot take away the freedom to draw cartoons
(Source: VOA News - 18/09/07)