وقد أدى الحرمان من ذلك الحق إلى انتهاك العهد وارتكاب مزيد من الانتهاكات تتعلق بحماية الأشخاص من استهداف شرفهم وسمعتهم أو استهداف النظام والسلامة العامة والتمييز العنصري والديني والتحريض على التمييز العنصري والديني ضد الدانمركيين العرب والمسلمين فضلاً عن ضمان الحماية المتساوية أمام القانون.
The newspaper thus did not intend to incite discrimination against certain Muslims, but to point out that a group of Muslims who “reject modern society” must be treated like all others in the State party regardless of beliefs. There is thus a crucial difference between initiatives intended to put an end to what the newspaper considered self-censorship and those intended to incite religious hatred, and the article's statements need to be seen in that light. The inclusion of “humoristic and satirical” illustrations, including of the illustrators themselves, supports the claim that they were not designed to incite religious hatred.