JMak
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I couldn't find any source to back up your claim. The sites I found supporting your claim were clearly biased and placed the cartoon in Egypt's newspapers in October 2005, which would actually be two weeks after the danish newspaper's publication. Those biased sources also fail to address the context in which the cartoons were put in the Egyptian newspaper. They were condemning the images.
I don't know whether the cartoons were published in Egypt prior to being published in the Danish publication. What I do recall, though, and what I think is more important, is that some of the cartoons presented to the Arab street were not published in the Danish publication. They were created by the very clerics brandishing the actual cartoons throughout the Middle East in order to stir up resentment and anger.
I'll try to find a link, but while the Danish publication publisged 12 cartoons, the set of cartoons distributed by that islamic group in Denmark included 15 cartoons.
Here we go.
Another.