 At an editorial meeting of Jyllands @-@ Posten ( " The Jutland Post " , Denmark 's largest daily newspaper ) on 19 September , reporter Stig Olesen mooted the idea of asking the members of the newspaper illustrators union if they would be willing to draw Muhammad . This would be an experiment to see the degree to which professional illustrators felt threatened . Flemming Rose , culture editor , was interested in the idea and wrote to the 42 members of the union asking them to draw their interpretations of Muhammad . 
