Shaken Dutch lawmaker Wilders says no more Prophet cartoons, for now


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  • Sunday, 09 Sep 2018

FILE PHOTO: Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders visits a local market in Antwerp, Belgium, with members of the Flemish right-wing Vlaams Belang party ahead of Belgian local elections, September 2, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Vidal/File Photo

CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) - Dutch lawmaker and anti-Islam campaigner Geert Wilders has said he has no plans, for now, to revive a competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed after it emerged as a motive for a stabbing in Amsterdam last week.

Wilders, speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Italy, expressed shock over the attack, in which a man stabbed and injured two American tourists at Amsterdam's central station. Dutch media identified the assailant as a 19-year-old Afghan.

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