By: Dave Astor The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) plans to release a statement in the near future about the Danish cartoon controversy.
"We have a lot of opinions about this, but we're pretty close to a consensus," said Nick Anderson, the organization's vice president.
Anderson -- a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., and the Washington Post Writers Group -- said the AAEC felt it was important to think about the matter carefully before issuing a statement. "We don't want to make a mistake," said Anderson, who's moving to the Houston Chronicle next week.
Many Muslims were angered by the Danish cartoons because they pictured the Prophet Muhammad -- and, in some cases, used his image to criticize Islamic extremism. Violent protests resulted when newspapers in various other countries recently reprinted the cartoons to express solidarity with the Danish newspaper, which had first run the drawings in September.
Is there a possibility that AAECers will draw Muhammad in their own cartoons? "We're neither encouraging or discouraging that," said Anderson. "It's up to the individual cartoonist."
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