Following yesterday’s news that three people were arrested in Denmark for plotting to murder a 73 year old cartoonist, Danish newspapers have reprinted the cartoon in order to show their commitment to freedom of speech.

“We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper will always defend,” Berlingske Tidende said.

The cartoon was also broadcast on national television, and even newspapers - such as Politiken - that originally criticised the publication of the Muhammed cartoons are now backing the campaign to defend freedom of speech. Jyllands-Posten quotes Tøger Seidenfaden, Politiken’s editor-in-chief as saying: “In a free society, we can discuss how public discussions should be conducted, but not if they should be conducted,”

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