Odd Isungset (born 1955) is a journalist and author, and was previously editor at Brennpunkt and Dokument 2. He has received several awards for his work, and is currently releasing a book about the caricature controversy.

The lecture begins with dramatic events from February 2006. The Norwegian embassy in Syria was burned down, and two days later, Norwegian soldiers shot at a threatening crowd in Afghanistan. The demonstrators claimed the protests were about caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. But was it really that simple?.

In the lecture, Isungset talks about how religious and political leaders in Egypt, Syria, Iran and Qatar used the cartoon controversy to secure their own power. In his work on the book, he has gained access to confidential communication between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Norwegian embassies during the crisis, and he has used documentation that has not previously been known. Twenty years after the drawings were first published, the lecture offers new perspectives on what happened and who was responsible for the situation spiralling out of control.