http://www.jp.dk/english_news/artikel:aid=3318352/
Cartoons have Muslims threatening newspaper
By The Copenhagen Post
Daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten has been forced to hire security guard
to protect employees from angry Muslims, after it printed a series of
cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammed
Death threats have forced daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten to hire
security guards to protect its employees, after printing twelve cartoons
featuring the prophet Mohammed.
The newspaper has been accused of deliberately provoking and insulting
Muslims by publishing the cartoons. The newspaper urged cartoonists to
send in drawings of the prophet, after an author complained that nobody
dared to illustrate his book on Mohammed. The author claimed that
illustrators feared that extremist Muslims would find it sacrilegious to
break the Islamic ban on depicting Mohammed.
Twelve illustrators heeded the newspaper's call, and sent in cartoons of
the prophet, which were published in the newspaper earlier this month.
Muslim spokesmen demanded that Jyllands-Posten retracted the cartoons
and apologised.
'We have taken a few necessary measures in the situation, as some people
seem to have taken offence and are sending threats of different kinds,'
the newspaper's editor-in-chief, Carsten Juste, told national
broadcaster DR.
The same day as the newspaper published the cartoons, it received a
threatening telephone call against 'one of the twelve illustrators', as
the caller said. Shortly afterwards, police arrested a 17-year-old, who
admitted to phoning in the threat.
Since then, journalists and editors alike have received threats by email
and the telephone. The newspaper told its staff to remain alert, but
then decided to hire security guards to protect its Copenhagen office.
'Up until now, we have only had receptionists in the lobby. But we don't
feel that they should sit down there by themselves, so we posted a guard
there as well,' Juste said.
Muslim organisations, like the Islamic Religious Community, have
demanded an apology, but Juste rejected the idea. He said the cartoons
had been a journalistic project to find out how many cartoonists
refrained from drawing the prophet out of fear.
'We live in a democracy,' he said. 'That's why we can use all the
journalistic methods we want to. Satire is accepted in this country, and
you can make caricatures. Religion shouldn't set any barriers on that
sort of expression. This doesn't mean that we wish to insult any Muslims.'
Juste's opinion was not shared by Århus imam Raed Hlayhel, who gave an
interview to the internet edition of Arabic satellite news channel
al-Jazeera to protest the newspaper's cartoons.
Hlayhel told al-Jazeera's reporter that he considered the cartoons
derisive of Islam, and described one of the drawings as showing Mohammed
wearing a turban-like bomb, and another as brandishing a sabre, with two
burka-clad women behind him.
Hlayhel said he did not understand how such illustrations could be
printed with reference to freedom of expression, when Denmark did not
tolerate the slightest sign of anti-Semitism.
Al-Jazeera concluded that the drawings seemed bizarre.
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