ABSTRACT
In February 2006, the Danish embassy in Damascus and the Danish Consulate General in Beirut were set on fire by mobs of enraged protestors. Elsewhere in the Middle East, the Danish flag was burned at demonstrations, threats against Danish citizens forced them to flee, and Danish commodities were boycotted. For a month, Denmark was shaking under the international pressure and the newspaper Jyllands-Posten was the epicenter.
