EN
The article points the problem of the role of artists and political cartoon in initiating a discourse within the dispute about the freedom of speech and forms of the contemporary democracy in the culturally and politically diversified Europe. It exposes the critical potential of satirical cartoon in its political variation. The avant-garde aspect of breaking the old conventions in the Islamic art, burdened with a religion-based ban on depicting, resulting, however, in a new form of iconoclasm.