Scharf was also active during the Muhammad cartoon crisis while serving as PET chief from 2007—two years after the publication of the cartoons.

*(From an English article)*
*"As the head of the PET, Scharf quickly pounced on Danish Islamist leaders who were outraged by the publication in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in unflattering and blasphemous terms."*