Danish cartoonists still fear for their lives
The Danish Muhammad cartoons triggered protests across the globe
Photo: ANP
Four years ago a Danish newspaper published the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that prompted outrage across the Islamic world. This week news that two men in the United States face charges of planning to attack those behind the images has forced the cartoonists back into hiding.
Many of the cartoonists behind the series have been living in fear since Denmark's Jyllands-Posten commissioned and printed their work in 2005.
Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, was forced to go into hiding after the discovery of a plot to kill him and the cultural editor of his newspaper. However, Mr Westergaard is still defiant, refusing to bow to the immense pressure put on him to apologize for his work.
Now aged 74, the cartoonist decided to come out of hiding earlier this year, but been forced to resume a low profile once again since the discovery he was one of the main targets of the so-called Mickey Mouse Project. This is the alleged plot by two men from Chicago with strong links to Pakistan, arrested earlier this month in the United States, to attack the staff and offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. Investigators have since revealed that one of the men has already been to Denmark twice on reconnaisance missions.
Euranet correspondent Malcom Brabant talked to Kurt Westergaard about being forced into a life in hiding:
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