As Denmark's prime minister, Rasmussen stood up boldly to the Islamists when they demanded that he apologize for the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten's publication of caricatures of Muhammad in 2005.
He was "reasonably confident" Jyllands-Posten had been targeted by the suspect, who denies any crime.
The furore over the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish paper, Jyllands-Posten , was also curious.
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Jyllands-Posten has apologized, and the Danish government has expressed regret for the furor but refused to become involved, citing freedom of expression.
Jyllands-Posten, a best-selling newspaper, published 12 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005 to accompany an editorial criticising self-censorship in the Danish media.
On 17 January, Rana was found guilty of providing material support to LeT and helping to plan an aborted attack on Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
The most notorious example of the trouble that can be stirred up is the cartoons of Muhammad first published by Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper in 2006.
The event became infamous after two angry imams from Denmark presented a dossier of cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that mocked the Prophet Mohammed.
It's a similar argument to that made by Flemming Rose, the culture editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which first published the Prophet cartoons back in 2005.
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who in 2005 drew 12 images of the Prophet that appeared in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, has been targeted by Islamists groups, who deemed the images offensive.
Tahawwur Rana, 52, was convicted in June 2011 of conspiracy to provide material support in the plot against the Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten newspaper and of providing material support to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Tayyiba-terror organization.
While he describes the Jyllands-Posten episode as a "controversy of the internet age, " Chappatte -- who has just returned from a graphic reporting assignment on urban violence in Guatemala -- remains enthusiastic about the potential of cyberspace.
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