Under clause 140 of Denmark’s penal code, anyone can be imprisoned or fined for publicly insulting or degrading religious doctrines or worship. Only four blasphemy prosecutions have ever been attempted in the country. The last was in 1971, when two Denmark Radio producers were acquitted after airing a song mocking Christianity. Two people were previously fined in 1946 after acting out a “baptism” at a ball in Copenhagen, while four others were sentenced for putting up anti-Semitic posters and leaflets in 1938. At least a dozen other cases have been considered but not charged, including in 2006 when prosecutors decided to stop an investigation into the Jyllands-Posten newspaper over a controversial set of caricatures under the headline “The Face of Mohamed”. The publication sparked protests around the world, with insulting the Prophet seen as a grave offence to Muslims and Islamic scholars interpreting Quran verses on idolatry to forbid any representation of Mohamed.
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Here lies the unpopularity of the nationalist leaders. I have heard Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari’s political lectures. The great speaker carries even the hostile audience with him. In the ecstasy of the moment, the people are so moved that drops of water trickle from their eyes, and they jump to their legs in an excited state of feeling. When this forceful orator says, “Freedom is our birthright. Muslims should get it at all costs,” the audience in one voice shrieks out, “Allah is great,” in approbation. When he says, “But this freedom cannot be attained without Hindu-Muslim unity,” the Muslim audience gives him a blank look. “Unity with those,” they say, “who treat us as untouchables is an impossible proposition.”

(Chaudhry Afzal Haq, ‘Pakistan and untouchability)