Denmark refuses to back down after an assassination plot against cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was foiled yesterday (via CNN):
(CNN) -- Newspapers in Denmark Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago.
The cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed provoked widespread outrage in the Muslim world two years ago.
The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people who allegedly were plotting a "terror-related assassination" of Kurt Westergaard, one of the cartoonist behind the drawings.
Berlingske Tidende, one of the newspapers involved in the republication, said: "We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper always will defend," in comments reported by The Associated Press.
The image, by Morgenavisen Jullands-Posten cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, was one of 12 cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed. Westergaard's cartoon depicted the prophet wearing a bomb as a turban with a lit fuse.
Demonstrations erupted across the world in early 2006 after other newspapers reprinted the images months later as a matter of free speech. The uproar came as some Muslims believe it is forbidden by the Quran to show an image of the prophet.
Many protesters directed their ire at Denmark, prompting the closure of several Danish embassies in predominantly Muslim countries, including Indonesia and Pakistan.
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service Tuesday said police arrested a 40-year-old Dane of Moroccan origin and two Tunisians in the Aarhus area of western Denmark following lengthy surveillance.
The Danish citizen is charged with a terrorism offense, the intelligence service said, and the Tunisians will be deported. Police have not yet released the names of the three.
So far, no Rage Boy sightings --- that's good news. Maybe this year he will replaced by Miffed Boy or Sulky Boy, or if we are lucky, Live-and-Let-Live Boy.
UPDATE: Captain's Quarters is issuing a blog challenge to show solidarity with the Danes by posting the above cartoon, since the mainstream media refuses to do so.
UPDATE II: Is this guy auditioning to be the new Rage Boy? Via the Jawa Report: American Muslim Inciting Murder of Danish Mohammed Cartoonists: "you fools seem to forget the end of Theo Van Gogh"
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1 comments:
It's pretty sad that people get so caught up in superstitious BS that they are more than willing to riot and kill over a cartoon of some stupid guy who lived and died over 1,000 years ago. I'm sick to death of hearing about "people of religion" (whether Muslim, Sikh, or Christian) trying to control what the rest of us read, write, draw, think, see, do or say, and I'm especially sick of them demanding special dispensation for their superstitious idiocy. These people must be stopped in their tracks with a good firm slap on the muzzle, and not acquiesed to or given exemptions to laws and rules.
For more Mohammed cartoons, see:
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