The Danish cartoonist who cartoonized prophet Muhammad dies night after Bajram

Westergaard died asleep after a long period of evil health, his family told the Belingske newspaper.

The Illustrator was behind the 12 drawings published in the conservative Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005 under Muhamed's “Face, one of which caused a lot of anger, reports Guardian.

Islamic tradition requires that no image of the prophet be produced or manifested.

Anger had broken up in anti-danese violence worldwide Muslim in 2006, of which dozens of people died, Danish embassys were attacked, including one in Damascus that was burned. /Periscope