OSLO: A Norwegian Muslim has reported a newspaper editor who published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to the police for violating a blasphemy law last used in 1933 against a poet who called Christians cannibals. “I have been reported to the police for blasphemy. We will have to see what happens as this law has not been used since 1933,” said Verbjoern Selbekk, editor of newspaper Magazinet. Paragraph 142 of Norway’s criminal code states a person can be prosecuted if he or she “in word or action publicly insults or in a demeaning or hurtful way displays scorn for any religious belief that is permitted in the country”. In 1933 the state failed to convict poet Arnulf Overland for comparing Christians to cannibals for their ritual of eating bread and drinking wine to symbolise Christ’s body and blood. The 1902 law was last used successfully to fine the editor of the Free Thinker newssheet in 1912 after he wrote an article entitled ‘The Great Humbug - the Christians’ Christmas’. “This is a case for the police, it cannot be solved by the masses,” Khalid Mohammad, who made the charge, told Aftenposten newspaper.