COPENHAGEN, Feb 3: The Danish newspaper that enraged Muslims with irreverent cartoons said on Friday it would not have published the material had it known what the consequences would be.

“If we had known that it would end with death threats and that Danish lives could actually be put at risk, we would have naturally not have printed the drawings,” the Jyllands-Posten said in an editorial.

The right-wing Jyllands-Posten said no one could have known the full outcome of its decision to print the 12 caricatures.

Jyllands-Posten apologised last month for the insult caused to many Muslims but said on Friday it ‘would not apologise to the powers who have abused the whole situation to further their own agendas’. —Reuters