 In response to the initial protests from Muslim groups , Jyllands @-@ Posten published an open letter to the citizens of Saudi Arabia on its website , in Danish and in Arabic , apologising for any offence the drawings may have caused but defending the right of the newspaper to publish them . A second open letter " to the honourable Fellow Citizens of the Muslim World " , dated 8 February 2006 , had a Danish version , an Arabic version , and an English version . It said , 
