Some of the drawings are wievs on muslims in general, but some of them have a specific story behind them. One of the reasons that the news paper had those cartoons made was that a danish author was publishing a book about the religion of islam and couldn't get anyone (non anymous) to make illustrations to that book. Before these illustrations were made various muslim(s and/or muslim organisations) had made threats to retaliate (sp?). This was an incident that made Jyllands Posten (the news paper) say, "Enough is enough". The rest is history. - Hansen (the dane)