Photo Gallery Politically Charged Carnival
This motif will feature in the parade on Rose Monday. The banner reads "Peace Between Religions -- The Greatest of All Illusions."
The word on the coffin means "Freedom of opinion." Murdered with a sabre, freedom of opinion is buried in 2006. .
Satire in mourning after 2006 saw Islam-critical floats banned from carnival parades in the wake of the Muhammad cartoon scandal.
This particular idea never made it into the parade in 2006. This year, though, organizers in Düsseldorf say there will be no limits.
This idea also went a bit too far for the Düsseldorf city council. The headline reads, "Effective Terror Prevention At Last."
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, was fair game last year.
This sketch, on the other hand, was never realized. It shows Iranian Mullahs hiding a nuclear warhead.
In 2005, when the diplomatic conflict between the United States and Iran was heating up, was the year of the "Mullah burger."
German Catholics weren't pleased with this 2005 float of German Cardinal Joachim Meisner burning a woman at the stake. Meisner is notorious for his ultra-conservative and anti-feminist stance.
What if they had made love instead of war? The designers of this float, seen on Rose Monday in 2003, were hopeful. The US invasion of Iraq began three weeks later.
