Tolls of Islam: The Dutch leader announces competition for the restoration of prophet Muhammad

Such a race had been cancelled a year earlier because of fear of attacks in the Netherlands.

In a Twitter post Saturday, Wilders called on people to send their Muhammad cartoons.

“Freedom of expression must rule against Islamic violence and fate,” said the leader of the largest opposition party in the Dutch parliament, writes Guardian, Pryskopi succeeds.

Wilders had cancelled the similar race last August after police had arrested a man who had threatened to kill the Dutch politician.

At that meal, competition plans had sparked mass demonstrations in Pakistan, with protesters urging Muslim countries to sever all ties with the Netherlands.

The images of Muhammad the Prophet are traditionally forbidden in Islam as idolatry. The cartoons are considered to be too offensive.

In 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten had published Muhammad's cartoons that had caused demonstrations throughout the Islamic world, and had also had efforts to either kill or editor, or cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

Two years earlier, in Paris, a couple of Islamist killers had killed twelve people in the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, also known for publishing Muhammad's satic cartoons. /Periscope