Resolute action against terrorism

The dispute over the Muhammad cartoons by artist Kurt Westergaard which were published in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten has entered a new round. A Danish court has postponed the deportation of a man who, according to information gathered by Denmark's security police force (PET), threatened the cartoonist. Jyllands-Posten criticises the decision: "Kurt Westergaard must now go on living in fear. At the same time as we are experiencing the omnipresence of terror here in Denmark, a former PET boss is spreading the naïve message that we should seek to understand and enter into dialogue with the terrorists - the Islamic fascists - and their ideological background. We should combat them with police initiatives. Terrorists should be confronted with resolute action and opposition, not with understanding."

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