The cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has been shaken over the attack plans on the Jyllands-Posten. The threat is not over, "he warned. The Danish newspaper had published five years ago, his controversial drawings. Berlin - "The foiled attack is a direct attack on democracy and press freedom," said Kurt Westergaard "Bild"-Zeitung."The threat from Islamist terror is not over." The Danish intelligence service said earlier that he had prevented a terrorist attack on Jyllands-Posten. In Denmark and Sweden a total of five suspects were arrested, at least one of them is a radical Islamist. Westergaard was convinced "that the threat from violent Islamists tackled with a policy of appeasement" was, but only with fortitude.
"We must not and will not allow ourselves to prohibit criticism of radical Islam. We must not let ourselves be intimidated when it comes to our value system." Westergaard also expressed in the "Bild"-Zeitung his sympathy with "my former colleagues at Jyllands-Posten, which should be killed.
They all have naturally fear for their families, their wives, their kids and themselves" Jyllands-Posten had published in September 2005, the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and thus caused in the Muslim world, a wave of indignation. Since then, there had always been threats against the newspaper.
On Westergaard earlier this year committed an assassination, which he narrowly avoided. The controversial artist has since been guarded around the clock by police.
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