 The immediate responses to the publication included newspaper sellers refusing to distribute that day 's paper . In the following days , the cartoons received significant attention in other Danish press outlets . According to Jytte Klausen , " most people groaned that the newspaper was at it again , bashing Muslims . The instinct was to split the blame . " Berlingske @-@ Tidende criticised the ' gag ' , but also said that Islam should be openly criticised . Politiken attacked Rose 's account of growing self @-@ censorship ; it also surveyed Danish cartoonists and said that self @-@ censorship was not generally perceived as a problem . On October 4 , a local teenager telephoned the newspaper offices threatening to kill the cartoonists , but he was arrested after his mother turned him in . 
