3 Arrested in Plot to Kill Cartoonist

[preservanation]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/20/arts/cartoon-600.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/books/20cartoon.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

AARHUS, Denmark — “I think this is safe house No. 5,” Kurt Westergaard said the other day, and it was clear that he genuinely had lost track.

Last month the Danish police arrested two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan descent on charges of plotting to kill Mr. Westergaard, one of the 12 cartoonists whose pictures of Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten sparked protests, some of them violent, by Muslims around the world in 2006 and put bounties on the heads of Mr. Westergaard and his editor, Flemming Rose. Mr. Westergaard (he drew Muhammad with a bomb in his turban) has been in hiding ever since...

...This time around Germany’s interior minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, a politician who has been conspicuous in working to improve relations with Muslims in Germany, was reported to have urged other newspapers in Europe to reprint the cartoons, a remark he strongly denied making, which made no difference to the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan.

“The German minister is required to immediately withdraw his statement,” Al-Watan demanded. Racism, not freedom of speech, was obviously behind Germany policy, the newspaper added
Sorry, if they get this worked up over a cartoon, how will they react to something really important, such as head scarves?

[apdst]

The Muslims jast can't let this go, can they?

[PatrickHenry]

"The" Muslims?

I see three fanatics!

If it was "the" Muslims...I bet it would be more than three...

[apdst]

If it was "the" Muslims...I bet it would be more than three...

There have been thousands, all over The World that have killed, pillaged and burned on account of these silly little cartoons. These, "three", are only added to the mix.

[Elrathin]

Want to see violence, burn the American flag, then you'll see real fanatics. Hell there are some on this board that have advocated violence against those that burn the American Flag.

[apdst]

Want to see violence, burn the American flag, then you'll see real fanatics.

Care to share any examples with us?

[Elrathin]

So you are saying that noone has threatened violence against someone that burns the American Flag?

[apdst]

So you are saying that noone has threatened violence against someone that burns the American Flag?

No, I asked that you provide some evidence to back up your comment.

[preservanation]

So you are saying that noone has threatened violence against someone that burns the American Flag?

No, I asked that you provide some evidence to back up your comment.
Actually I would like to see that too, El.
The comparison of the two may be false, IMO.
I think this may be misdirection, distraction and avoidance of the issue at hand.

[apdst]

I think this may be misdirection, distraction and avoidance of the issue at hand.

It's the usual Liberal tactics of saying that, "Americans are just as bad", to bolster their argument.

[Elrathin]

So you are saying that noone has threatened violence against someone that burns the American Flag?

No, I asked that you provide some evidence to back up your comment.
Actually I would like to see that too, El.
The comparison of the two may be false, IMO.
I think this may be misdirection, distraction and avoidance of the issue at hand.


Set fire to an American flag outside a VFW Post and find out what happens ok? Game, set, and match.

[apdst]

Set fire to an American flag outside a VFW Post and find out what happens ok? Game, set, and match.

One, show us some examples of that happening.

Two, you would be on The VFW's property, so the members of that post would be well within their rights to protect their property from you vandilism and trespassing.

[preservanation]

So you are saying that noone has threatened violence against someone that burns the American Flag?

No, I asked that you provide some evidence to back up your comment.
Actually I would like to see that too, El.
The comparison of the two may be false, IMO.
I think this may be misdirection, distraction and avoidance of the issue at hand.


Set fire to an American flag outside a VFW Post and find out what happens ok? Game, set, and match.
Yeah, and see if they issue a death warrant on an entire nation?
That's just silly.
I see flags a-burning in San Fran often...where are the fatwas from veterans of foreign wars calling for their beheadings?
Never see them.
All I see is them protesting peacefully behind barricades against them.
Same with The Gathering of Eagles.
I don't see a comparison.