Why did the editors of Jyllands-Posten want to mock Islam in this way? Some of us believed it was in bad taste and also cruel. Intentional humiliation is an aggressive act. As a journalist now living in the same town as Westergaard, I thought some at Jyllands-Posten had acted like petulant adolescents

Going after petulant adolescents with axes is a perfectly understandable response. It's just like that time I sent anthrax-laced Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee to the creators of Drawn Together.