Denmark Stops Plot to Murder Cartoonist

February 12th, 2008 By: Claudia, Assistant Editor | Tags: , , , , , ,
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Authorities in Denmark have made several arrests in connection to a plot to kill one of the cartoonists that depicted the prophet of Islam. They were planning to murder 73-year-old Kurt Westergaard, the author of one of the most controversial cartoons (Mohammed with a bomb in his türban).

Secular societies also have sacred values. One of the most important ones  is free speech. Just another reminder of how eternally vigilant we have to be to keep this all-important right safe.

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  1. Rudi666
    February 12th, 2008 at 19:36
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    This is a great story about our friends the Sauidis and their Morality Police(h/t BallonJuice). Seems the Saudis are going after that "red menace" that we call Valentines Day.
    http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=9665
    http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/12/saudi.valentine/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

    (CNN) — Saudi Arabia has asked florists and gift shops to remove all red items until after Valentine’s Day, calling the celebration of such a holiday a sin, local media reported Monday.

    "As Muslims we shouldn’t celebrate a non-Muslim celebration, especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women, " Sheikh Khaled Al-Dossari, a scholar in Islamic studies, told the Saudi Gazette, an English-language newspaper.

    Every year, officials with the conservative Muslim kingdom’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice clamp down on shops a few days before February 14, instructing them to remove red roses, red wrapping paper, gift boxes and teddy bears. On the eve of the holiday, they raid stores and seize symbols of love.

    The virtue and vice squad is a police force of several thousand charged with, among other things, enforcing dress codes and segregating the sexes. Saudi Arabia, which follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism, punishes unrelated women and men who mingle in public.

    Ahmed Al-Omran, a university student in Riyadh, told CNN that the government decision will give the international media another reason to make fun of the Saudis "but I think that we got used to that by now."

    "I think what they are doing is ridiculous," said Al-Omran, who maintains the blog ‘Saudi Jeans.’ "What the conservatives in this country need to learn is something called ‘tolerance.’ If they don’t see the permissibility of celebrating such an occasion, then fine — they should not celebrate it. But they have to know they have no right to impose their point of view on others."

    I wonder what the royal family buys there callgirl/girlfriends for VD when on the Mediterranean holidays?

  2. Black Shards, In Your Eyes, Blinding » Denmark On a Roll
    February 16th, 2008 at 23:55
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