 the solicitation and publication of the ʻMuhammad cartoonsʼ was part of a long and carefully orchestrated campaign by the conservative Jyllands @-@ Posten ( also known in Denmark as Jyllands @-@ Pesten – the plague from Jutland ) , in which it backed the centre @-@ right Venstre party of Prime Minister Fogh Rasmussen in its successful bid for power in 2001 . Central to Venstreʼs campaign , aside from its neoliberal economic agenda , was the promise to tackle the problem of foreigners who refused to ' integrate ' into Danish society . 
