Here I am talking about Muslims spreading around the world like a plague and one of them just proves that there really is a concern. Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who drew a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad wearing a live bomb as his turban has been targeted by a Muslim would be assassin with links to Al Qaeda. Because of Danish privacy laws, the name of would be assassin has not been released, but it is known that he is a Somali (Somalia is a country with 100% Muslim population) with close ties to al-Shabaab – the Somali terrorist organisation as well as Al Qaeda.
Danish Security and Intelligence Service PET has confirmed that 28 year old Somali Muslim broke into the house of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard in Aarhus, Denmark armed with an axe and a knife. 74 year old Kurt Westergaard was at his house with his 5 year old granddaughter. He heard the window break and pressed the alarm button which he had installed since Muslims started threatening Danish cartoonists for portraits of Muhammad from 5 years ago, to alert the police that there is a potential security breach. Kurt Westergaard took his granddaughter and locked themselves in the bathroom. Would be assassin was trying to break in with his axe shouting “Blood” and “Revenge” in Danish. The police showed up shortly after and shot the assailant in the hand and leg after he threw his axe at the officer, ultimately busting his assassination attempt.
The Somali Muslim confessed that he wanted to assassinate Kurt Westergaard because of his cartoon of Prophet Muhammad. Kurt Westergaard shared his ordeal with Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten which he still works for as a cartoonist (it’s the same paper that originally published his cartoon of Prophet Muhammad). According to Danish statistics, out of 5.5 Million Danes, 3% are Muslims. The Muslim who tried to assassinate Kurt Westergaard has been charged with attempted murder of both Kurt Westergaard and the police officer. Jyllands-Posten newspaper speculated that following this attempted assassination, Kurt Westergaard may be given a personal bodyguard to provide round the clock security for the cartoonist. Unreal – Denmark has longed ranked as a country with THE highest standard of living in the world. Now thanks to Muslims, Danes who exercise their given right of free speech and expression must fear for their lives.
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and War is the terrorism of the rich. — Peter Ustinov
Lars Vilks is a Swedish cartoonist who drew the series of cartoons entitled “modog” portraying prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi – the leader of al-Quaeda in Iraq offered $100k bounty for the murder of Lars Vilks and additional $50k for Ulf Johansson, the chief editor of the Nerikes Allehanda where cartoons were published. al-Quaeda group further offered 50% bonus if Lars Vilks was “slaughtered like a lamb” – which means to have the throat cut.
Lars Vilks seems to be able to keep his cool and says: “It’s good to know how much one is worth”. Following the incident, another Swedish national daily paper – Dagens Nyheter republished the cartoon and its editor Thorbjörn Larsson said:
We live in a country where freedom of expression is not dictated by fundamentalists, nor by governments. To me, publishing it was the obvious thing to do.
al-Quaeda’s Abu Omar al-Baghdadi called Lars Vilks a criminal when he announced the $100k award be put on his head.
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt initiated talks with ambassadors of Muslim based countries in Sweden in an attempt to defuse the tension. Free press and the right of free speech and expression are not punishable by Swedish law.
There certainly are risks and consequences involved when one exercised their right to expression. Just as you have the right to speak, so do they have the right to disagree. This is the point of free speech. And that’s what western civilizations are (or should be) all about – fundamental freedoms, such as the aforementioned freedom of speech, as well as freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom of peaceful assembly and so forth. This freedom of speech right certainly gets misused by whiny little bitches who use word “censorship” each time somebody exercises their right to object, but that’s not the point.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi has made a reference to giant Swedish companies such as Ericcson, Scania, Volvo, Ikea, and Electrolux stating that al-Quaeda would strike the economy of these companies as part of their revenge against Lars Vilks’ cartoons. Now, if al-Quaeda said they were going to boycott Swedish products and companies, I could in a sense understand that as that is how you exercise your fundamental freedoms and you are entitled to choose who you do business with and who you don’t. But to put a price on the head of an artist???
