 Numerous violent plots related to the cartoons have been discovered in the years since the main protests in early 2006 . These have primarily targeted editor Flemming Rose , cartoonist Kurt Westergaard , the property or employees of Jyllands @-@ Posten and other newspapers that printed the cartoons , and representatives of the Danish state . Westergaard has been the subject of several attacks or planned attacks and now lives under special police protection . On 1 January 2010 , police used firearms to stop a would @-@ be assassin in Westergaard 's home . In February 2011 , the attacker , a 29 @-@ year @-@ old Somalian man , was sentenced to nine years in prison . In 2010 , three men based in Norway were arrested on suspicion that they were planning a terror attack against Jyllands @-@ Posten or Kurt Westergaard ; two of the men were convicted . In the United States , David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana were convicted of planning terrorism against Jyllands @-@ Posten and were sentenced in 2013 . 
