Do Your Worst! Danish Newspaper Republishes Cartoons On Prophet Mohammed

Friday, 9 January 2015

Do Your Worst! Danish Newspaper Republishes Cartoons On Prophet Mohammed

In the wake of the Paris incident, a Danish newspaper has republished caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed from Charlie Hebdo as part of its coverage.

According to the Independent publication, the newspaper firm labelled the Charlie Hebdo attacks on free journalism. “It’s obvious this is an attack on free journalism and has a chilling effect on our work”

Thursday’s print edition of Berlingske, available online on Wednesday night, showed several past front pages from the French magazine.

Among them was one depicting the Prophet Mohamed and another about sharia law.

Such images provoked angry reactions from some Muslims when originally published by Charlie Hebdo, and footage of the killings at the magazine’s offices showed gunmen shouting “we have avenged the Prophet Mohamed”.

Berlingske’s editor-in-chief Lisbeth Knudsen said her newspaper’s action in republishing the cartoons was not a protest.

“We will print them as documentation of what kind of a magazine it was that has been hit by this terrible event,” Ms Knudsen told the BNB news agency.