GagWatch

There has been a lot of speculation about the recent bombing of the Danish embassy in Pakistan, but Fauzia Mufti Abbas, Pakistan’s ambassador to the country, believes (via) – along with many others – that it was linked to the publication of the Muhammed cartoons. Inevitably, she goes on to draw the rather childish conclusion that the bombing of the embassy, which killed six people and left 30 injured, was the fault of the Danish press.

‘It isn’t just the people of Pakistan that feel they have been harassed by what your newspaper has begun,’ she said. ‘I’d like to know if your newspaper is satisfied with what it has done and what it has unleashed?’

Jørn Mikkelsen, Jyllands-Posten’s editor-in-chief, defended his newspaper’s decision to print the cartoons.

‘The decision to do so was in full accordance with Danish law, Danish press ethics and Danish press traditions. That the facts have been twisted in the rest of the world and misused for purposes that are no concern of Jyllands-Posten is something we can and will not take responsibility for.’

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