- Attempt on cartoonists life:
Posted Feb 12, 08 7:29 AM CST in World Most Covered
(newser) ? Danish police this morning arrested several people suspected of plotting to assassinate a cartoonist who had offended Muslims with a cartoon insulting the prophet Mohammed.
Danish papers reprint Muhammad cartoons in response to alleged assassination attempt
By Ezra Winton, February 13, 2008 Comments (0)
Denmark has not been in the news as of late, so perhaps in a bid to stir up some more interest in the northern European country, major newspapers are, as of early this morning, reprinting the infamous Muhammad cartoons - or if you take their word for it, they are responding to an alleged attempted assassination plot against the original artist, Westergaard. From CBS News this morning:
The Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which first published the 12 drawings on Sept. 30, 2005, reprinted Westergaard's cartoon in its print edition Wednesday. Several other major dailies, including Politiken and Berlingske Tidende, also reprinted the drawing.
"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 will always defend," said the Copenhagen-based Berlingske Tidende.
Muslim anger at Danish cartoons Protest over cartoons in Copenhagen The cartoons have prompted protests in Copenhagen The ambassadors of 10 Muslim countries have complained to the Danish prime minister about a major newspaper's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
A letter from the ambassadors said the cartoons published in Jyllands-Posten last month showed the Prophet as a stereotypical fundamentalist.
Pictorial depictions of the Prophet Muhammad are forbidden in Islam.
Interesting, eh? Read carefully: "Pictorial depictions of the Prophet Muhammad are forbidden in Islam."
They weren't printed in Islam. They were printed in Denmark, as an expression of Free Speech. Guess Islam has a real problem with Free Speech: The BBC reported an Islamic spokesman as saying, "We see thet Denmark has not learned it's lesson".
'Scuse me? "Learned it's lesson"? Who the frig do they think they are? They can tell their own people what to think and what to say, but now they are espousing thier laws and religion on the rest of the world.
Free Speech, eh? Not in the Islamic world. Or the rest of the world, if they have their way...