The caricatures from Denmark's Jyllands-Posten paper included drawings of Muhammad wearing a headdress shaped like a bomb, while another shows him saying that paradise was running short of virgins for suicide bombers.
"This is a far bigger story than just the question of 12 cartoons in a small Danish newspaper."
- Flemming Rose, culture editor, Jyllands-Posten
"No religious dogma can impose its view on a democratic and secular
society."
- Arnaud Lévy, editor in chief, France Soir
"I can't call a newspaper and tell them what to put in it. That's not how our society works."
- Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, rejecting demands for an official apology
"I understand that it may shock Muslims, but being shocked is part of the price of being informed."
- Robert Ménard, secretary general, Reporters Without Borders
"You can understand the feelings of Muslims, but we're in a pluralist state. We have a right to do that."
- Dominique von Burg, editor in chief, Switzerland's Tribune de Genève
"My guess is that no one will draw the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark in the next generation, and therefore I must say with deep shame that they have won."
- Carsten Juste, editor in chief, Jyllands-Posten
