The cartoonist whose satirical drawing of Mohammed caused him to be vilified by Muslims the world over has been the subject of an Islamically inspired assassination attempt; he escaped death, though his assailant was shot several times by police.
Kurt Westergaard’s depiction of Mohammed, published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, infuriated Muslims the world over, with many demanding that Denmark censor the cartoons.
Dozens were killed in violent protests against the “blasphemous” caricatures, and Danish embassies throughout the Islamic world were attacked.
The religion of peace soon inspired numerous fatwa against Westergaard, and a million dollar bounty was placed on his head.
Westergaard was driven into hiding but defiantly emerged years later, albeit under heavy police protection.
However, this proved useless as a 28-year-old Somali Islamist was able to break into his home with a knife, vowing to kill him.
Westergaard fled to a panic room with his infant granddaughter and summoned his police guardians, who apprehended the assassin; he resisted arrest and was shot in the knee and shoulder by police. His injuries are not said to be life-threatening.
Police previously arrested three Muslim immigrants for plotting to kill Westergaard, but this is the first time he has been bodily attacked.
Danish intelligence reports the assassin was known to be a member of a violent Islamist group thought to have ties to al-Qaeda, and was already under surveillance for his other activities; doubtless they will have some interesting questions to answer regarding how he was able to attempt his crime despite this.
Via the BBC.









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No offense against Muslims, but that kind of reaction to a cartoon sort of proves the artist's point.
This guy speaks the truth! What they are doing is totally proving the point of the artist. Kind of wish the guy was shot in the face rather than the knee / shoulder though...
Sadly, its these few nutjobs that ruin it for good Muslims, which are the majority.
That may have been true a long time ago but when high ranking clerics now misuse fatwas to issue death sentences on someone because they "insulted" Islam and "good" Muslims just stand idly by what is the rest of the world suppose to think?
Look up Taslima Nasreen. Over a hundred thousand Muslims gathered to violently protest the female activist. Her "insults", if you can even call it that, to Islam isn't out of spite stemming from misconception about the religion but through her criticism that Islam is incredibly misogynistic, which it is. A bounty for her head because she wants equal rights for women? That is Islam for you.
Ironically, where is Equality Now?
Mohammed worked in his wifes business.
....and his wife's business was fellating pigs during Ramadan.
That's common in terms of bad image, it's not the same but Henry Kissinger said it best I think:
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
Sadly, it's these few good muslims that get ruined by nutjobs, which are the majority.
I fixed it for you...
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An umbrella organization for moderate Muslims in Denmark condemned the attack.
"The Danish Muslim Union strongly distances itself from the attack and any kind of extremism that leads to such acts," the group said in a statement.
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Sadly these nutjobs are quite vocal
Except the nutjob wasn't being vocal at all. He attempted to murder the guy.
Those umbrella organization for moderate Muslims should do more than just condemned after the fact. A proactive solution should be made and enacted by them too.
And how the hell are they supposed to do that? They should do policework? Become a paramilitary organization? What do you expect?
Personally I am an atheist, and I don't consider it my responsibility to police every other atheist alive.
Personally i don't care who does it or how they do it. They went all that trouble and bothered to form an organization, doing something useful is the least they can do.
Why are there always news about MUSLIMS killing, not Christians or Buddists?
You would say Middle-east is US's enemy, then CHina is so too, why there's no Buddists killing?
Their religion taught them to be violent. Their god specifically instructed them to kill non-believers in sight and those who converted from Islam to other religions. Of course Muslims deny this. However their Koran speak in volumes.
because there isn't ANY!!!
in case you didn't know, Buddhism teach people it is wrong to kill any life form (except plants)
The greatest gift of religion to humankind was to provide a moral justification of killing your neighbor by labelling him as infidel and no other religion does that better than islam.
Because the other religions get other news, christians (or at least catholics, can't bother to look it up) get their pedophile priests, and Buddhist get in the news for getting killed, at least in tibet
i think they weren't teaching about violence, what kind of god would taught that way though. i'm sure its just some hidden message like "behead the unbelievers" means beat them with brain, not specifically beheading the unbeliever. if anyone would do that way, it must be some of their fu**ing extremists... i think...
sorry for bad english :p
exactly, stereotypes was based on actual evidence
perhaps the normal muslims should make up a new term for the psycho muslims and regard them as a cult instead of a religion
>Ironically, where is Equality Now?
They pick on small targets that can't afford to defend themselves and avoid challenging large entities. The behavior to show perceived accomplisment is common for many organizations that depend on donations.
Rather, his foot and arm will be useless due to the knee and shoulder join being unrepairable.
If they shot him in the face, he'd just become another martyr. It's all bullshit. Muslims, Jews, Christians——all of 'em are hopped up on bullshit. There is no method of thinking more perverse than religion.
Islam is the real threat to world peace not communism.
Communism hasn't been a threat on anyone's radar for quite a while...
Please go tell that to right wing conservatives please, I think they need to hear those news...
Islam has yet to produce any capable modern government, whereas communism managed many decades of quite threatening modern tyranny. If it weren't for oil revenues they would be totally impotent.
Look at all the scientific and technical progress even Russia was able to make under communism, and compare that to the state of contemporary Islam.
that is true as an American I find myself in awe at some of the things the Russians have pulled off. their lies their deception their misdirection cause the American taxpay quite a bit of change in milatery spending. Did you know that the F15 was builted to conter the Mig-25 becasue it was thought to be a air-speriority fighter when it was actully an interceptor designed to shoot down high speed spy planes? Or that we wasted money on a missle know as the 'Nike' becuse the russians had us thinking that they had over fifty jet bombers (Tu-16 Badger) that could fly to the US and drops nukes when in reality it floped. it laked the range because of it's engines. it toked almost a decade to realized that we been had. all the russians had to do was take two and fly them over and over
You're post should be considered an act of terrorism. It's like a medusa weapon meant to scramble our brains.
Use punctuation, please.
If you're talking about Glenn Beck, ALL he talked about when he was on HLN were these fanatics. And how will the US fight them if the economy collapses because of the socialists in the government.
Socialism is a path to communism. THAT'S why they are talking about it.
Humans are the real threat to world peace.
that's right is not the religion itself, and people has different personalities and experience and we have the wisdom to do good or bad...
please stop generalizing muslims, we are not terrorists or same bad works.
No. You're wrong.
Equality Now is the threat! EN! EN!
Humans will be peaceful when they finally get an International Version of Love Plus.
Think of Christians in the Past...
It's not the religion itself that's the problem.
The problem is,
(Part A): people who fanatically throw themselves into a religion/cult because it makes them feel "superior" to others, and/or "high", and,
(Part B): unscrupulous (sometimes fanatical) leaders who exploit these people.
"But.. but, this can't apply to us good, upright Christians!"
Um, hello -- recall the Crusades, and more recently, Christian fanatics assasinating medical staff who performed abortions.
That's right, it happened here in the good ol' U.S. of A.
Religion, cult -- it doesn't matter. Fool-fanatics + unscrupulous leaders == trouble.
Religion = cult.
The crusades happen in the middle-ages so by your reckoning which is where muslims still are.
And you equate cartoons with fetuses which shows where your moral standing is.
Christianity founded ~30AD
1400 years later = (late) middle ages
Islam founded ~610AD
1400 years later = middle ages?
Maybe in 600 years they will realize religion isn't everything.
You're an idiot.
During the Crusades the Crusaders looted Muslims and got soap, silk, and a number of other technological advances.
Yes europeans learned how to make and use soap from muslims.
I would say that the religion IS the problem. Sure, people who are fanatic might and probably would try to justify their actions in some other way. However, when you have this "religion of peace" which justifies (and I don't give a shit what any moderate Muslim says, I'm pretty sure they're able to justify it with their religion), it makes all so much easier and helps when there there are all these other people believing in it. Maybe these moderates don't really believe that all that is right but they do kind of give them space to exist. I don't see those moderate Muslims going around protesting against the fundamentalists as those fundie fucktards do against the cartoonist.
Italians were using soap 4 centuries before the the crusades. Silk was traded since ancient times.
Nice to see your government paid muslim centric education is being put to embarrassing use.
Soap and silk may be bad examples, but they did preserve much of the knowledge of ancient greece and rome while germanic barbarians burned down cloisters and libraries in most parts of europe. Mathematics, astronomy, steel making...
And still says “Why is Crime in Japan Lower Than in Christian Countries?”...
...and still many Muslims don't use soap...
/ducks
pity muslims :}
Another year forward into the future and the fanatics are still believing they're in the Stone Age...
Wake up
I think millions of dead Russians may disagree on that fact.
RELIGION is the real threat to world peace, not communism.
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sand n*gger have no sense of humor
.. he couldn't do anything cuz you can't have a gun legaly there... but the terrorists has plenty!
try that shit in Texas! people be coming out the woodwork to shoot that bastard!
Awesome place that, Texas.
If it wasn't for all the religious nutjobs, I'd totally move there.
And if he was a gynecologist who just happened to perform abortions in the line of duty, they'd be coming out of the woodwork to kill him too.
Or if he was gay, they'd be coming out of the woodwork to tie him to a fence and beat him to death.
So, I think I'll stay away from that.
Your implying abortionist wouldn't be killed if they were performing abortions in muslim counrties?
Or that gays wouldn't be harassed or killed if they are from a muslim family and live in a middle-east country.
And lets not forget "honor killings". Muslim women having sex with a non-muslim before getting married getting killed by the their oen very muslim family.
Oh, oh and theres also muslim women getting raped but also jailed and kaned. Because by muslim tradition getting raped is equal to commiting adultery FFS.
Honer Killings has got nothing to do with Islam and raping is forbidden in Islam.
Theres good and bad people in this world does not matter if he is muslim, christian, jewish or hind.
Stop watching Fox News and go and read some books on what Islam really stands for and you will see cultural practices are not part of the true Islam.
And for your information it was the Crusades who murdered women and children when they invaded and conquered cities which were occupied by the Islamic Empire and they were not allowed to leave freely.
Im not american and i don't even get Fox news with my cable. Interestingly enough those incidents that happen were featured here. If you are here, its probably something you probably read but neglected to acknowldged.
And just to be clear i never implied raping was solely an Islam, it happnes everywhere.
But and its a big BUT, but having a rape victim sentence to prison and caned is a thing that will only happen on a Islamic country. Its here in the site, just search it.
And its probably true that Islam really does not stands for alot of thing happending currently. But its hard to deny that when almost everytime people like Bin Laden or those that drove planes to buildings and blow trains, don't they always procalim that they do it for allah or islam.
ALLAH AKBARRRRRR
ADMIRAL AKBARRRRR!!!!!
IT'S A TRAP!!!!
AKBAR TANJUUNGG!!!
You don't get it do you? Muslims belive that by drawing somebody you steal his soul while the person is sleeping. They belive that when a person is sleeping his soul is travaling somewhere and that the soul may confuse the drawing with his own body and may have trouble returning back. That is why they react so violantly. They belive he stole the soul of Mohammed.
Hahaha, but how do they even know how Mohammad looks like? It can't be identical to the drawing, can it?
Why not offend them. Religion and beliefs should hold no more protection against criticism than politics or sports.
Religious beliefs are a little higher on the food chain than politics or sports. Religion has basicly guided and ruled over moral behavior in all cultures for forever. That said, this kind of retaliation against a cartoon is just bonkers. Like rockbottom said, they're only proving the artist's point.
Anyone who would kill over a cartoon should be shot.
It would have been cooler if the cartoonist shot the bastard himself vs hiding in a panic room.
Use of a panic room sends the wrong message.
Yeah, but at the same time, many places are not as gun-crazed as the US and the Middle-East. Sure both those places you can pick up high explosives from your kwik-e-marts with no license, but many countries have very strict gun control laws, he probably couldn't have one.
Besides, retreating sends the right message: In the face of Evil, of his prophecy of psychopaths trying to kill him, he did not kill them back. Rather, he was of Peace, and backed away, letting the arbitars of law, police, deal with the issue. He acted like Islam says you should... While they acted like bloodthirsty curs and beastmen, which is delightfully ironic.
Now go off and pray to your Earth-star gods, everyone. The big Muha gets some cred with the 8 year old loli wife, though. Way to start a religion, that is.
Hah. Talk about self-fulfilling prophecy...