article_snippet: Teachers should be allowed to show Prophet Mohammed cartoons in school as part of a national curriculum on the Europe massacres caused by the images, Danish politicians have said.
article_snippet: However, Mai Mercado, a Conservative People's Party spokeswoman stressed that teachers would be free to choose whether or not to show the cartoons themselves, as long as the topic was discussed. '
article_snippet: Politically we don't regulate the details of what students are taught, that's an old tradition to make sure that Danish schools are kept free from political interference.'
article_snippet: But Mai Mercado, a Conservative People's Party spokeswoman added that if teachers refused to show the cartoons Mai Mercado, a Conservative People's Party spokeswoman was 'convinced the students would go home and run a Google search because students are curious'.
article_snippet: But the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party (DPP), which was ranked third with 19.6per cent support by the same poll, went even further, saying that showing the cartoons she was should be mandatory in schools.
article_snippet: If you live in Denmark you should also be able to tolerate seeing the drawings,' party spokesman Alex Ahrendtsen told the daily Berlingske.
article_snippet: However, the head of Denmark's teachers' union, Anders Bondo Christensen, said that he believed it should be up to each teacher to decide whether and how to talk about the controversial drawings.
article_snippet: An appropriate way to discuss them could be to 'perhaps invite some Muslim children's parents to explain why it provokes' some Muslim children's parents, he told news agency Ritzau.
highlights_snippet: Teachers 'should be allowed to show students the cartoons if Teachers ' wish'
  Crisis caused by the cartoonsshould be on the school curriculum'
  In 2005, cartoons in a Danish newspaper also sparked widespread protests .
  