Did the Danish cartoon controversy start a much needed dialogue between wider Danish society and the country's Muslim community? It may well have. However, 10 of the 12 cartoonists who took on the subject of depicting the prophet Muhammad still haven't appeared in public.

An excerpt from the BBC story:

Earlier this month, Denmark's Religious Affairs Minister Bertel Haarder opened the country's first Muslim-only burial site, saying: "Denmark is a paradise for Muslims."

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Sitting next to Mr Haarder at the opening ceremony was imam Ahmed Abu-Laban - one of the driving forces in spreading the row worldwide.

According to the cleric, more Muslims are now finding their way to mosques and more people are making donations to Muslim charities.

"Generally, we have seen a boom since the cartoons were published," he said. "Many Muslims are becoming stronger in their faith.

"They feel there is a need to practise the religion more."

At the height of the tensions, Syrian-born Danish MP Naser Khader founded the organisation Democratic Muslims.

"The Muhammed row has been a natural prolonging of my life project to show that Islam and democracy can work side-by-side, and that you can be Muslim, Democrat and Danish at the same time," he said. "The crisis helped me a lot.

He believes the group helded prevent the tensions in Denmark from escalating, pointing out despite protests around the world, there were no riots in Denmark.

Democratic Muslims are now setting up branches across the world to promote a teaching of Islam which can co-exist with Western democracies.