Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Danish cartoonist says attacker was a lone madman (an unnamed Somali Muslim)
Yahoo! News (AP) ^ | 01/04/2010 | n/a

Posted on 01/04/2010 7:41:34 AM PST by Pyro7480

The Danish artist whose controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad enraged Muslims says police cannot protect him from attackers who act spontaneously.

Kurt Westergaard tells The Associated Press he believes he is being targeted by Muslim extremists because he stands by his cartoon and insists he has "not done anything wrong."

The 74-year-old artist says he was shocked by Friday's attack during which a Somali man broke into his home armed with an ax....

Police shot the Somali man in the hand and knee, and he was later charged with attempted murder.

The man cannot be identified due to a Danish court ban.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cartoon; denmark; donutwatch; fatwa; jihad; mohammed; muslims; warof12cartoons
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-24 next last

1 posted on 01/04/2010 7:41:36 AM PST by Pyro7480
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

ROP strikes again...


2 posted on 01/04/2010 7:48:31 AM PST by Jonx6
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

The artist is not saying that he was attacked by a lone nut.

The POLICE are denying him protection claiming it was the work of a lone nut. He says he’s been targeted by a block of extremists.

AmericanPravda loves to spin the myths


3 posted on 01/04/2010 7:49:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jonx6

The Left was much more sympathetic to Salman Rushdie than they have been to any of the Danish cartoonists.


4 posted on 01/04/2010 7:50:51 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

That ‘lone madman’s’ faith and culture was founded by a ‘lone madman.’


5 posted on 01/04/2010 7:55:10 AM PST by VR-21
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise
Are these still applicable?
Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Image and video hosting by TinyPic
6 posted on 01/04/2010 7:57:06 AM PST by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

If so, I guess the man’s address is common knowledge to all Somalis then.


7 posted on 01/04/2010 8:00:35 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah."Our middle regiment, Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

To the Left this is a fashionable sort of treason. Yes I wrote “treason.”


8 posted on 01/04/2010 8:06:43 AM PST by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480
The 74-year-old artist says he was shocked by Friday's attack during which a Somali man broke into his home armed with an ax....

Shocked, perhaps, but certainly not surprised.

9 posted on 01/04/2010 8:08:41 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise
The Left was much more sympathetic to Salman Rushdie than they have been to any of the Danish cartoonists.

That was back when the Left was aligned with the Soviet Union. Since 9-11 the Left has found a new anti-Western ally-Islam.

10 posted on 01/04/2010 8:11:09 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

What a misleading headline! The AP has apparently made its bed with muslims extremists and islamophile entitees who support them.


11 posted on 01/04/2010 8:20:12 AM PST by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480

The yahoo site has a link to a second article about the same incident. That second article mentions that this is (at least) the THIRD attack against the cartoonist by jihadists. This courageous man needs our prayers for his protection!


12 posted on 01/04/2010 8:31:30 AM PST by JoyjoyfromNJ (Psalm 121)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

“The Left was much more sympathetic to Salman Rushdie than they have been to any of the Danish cartoonists”

That was before islam achieved fluffyliberalantiamericancausecelebre status.

And also before the arabs owned so much US media that they are able to promote the fluffyliberalantiamericancausecelebre status.


13 posted on 01/04/2010 8:33:28 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: VR-21
That ‘lone madman’s’ faith and culture was founded by a ‘lone madman.’

true.




14 posted on 01/04/2010 8:41:13 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: JoyjoyfromNJ

No, not just prayers.
AT LEAST a .380, better a .38spl or 9mm or .40 S&W, .44 or a .45acp.
For home and garden a good 12 guage pump with 00 buckshot would do the trick.
After all, God helps those who help themselves. 911 is for recording the sounds of your own demise.

Personal disarmament in the face of muzzies is lunacy.


15 posted on 01/04/2010 9:18:26 AM PST by Flintlock
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Pyro7480; TigersEye; Whenifhow; malkee; STE=Q; rocco55; thouworm; rxsid; GOPJ; Fred Nerks; ...

UPDATE............UPDATE..............UPDATE.....UPDATE

Looks like a Kenya centered plot to assassinate Hillary. No wander Obama is steerinng clear of his cousinn Odinga. Why all the Africans suddenly tirning into jihadists? I thought the Obama smile was supposed to pacify them magically, ( or os he plotting to do in his political enemies Mugabe style?)

***********************************

Terror Suspect Targeted Hillary Clinton
Sunday, 03 Jan 2010 04:33 PM

COPENHAGEN — A man charged with attempting to kill a Danish cartoonist over his Muslim prophet Mohammed caricatures was also involved in an alleged plot against US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Danish newspaper reported Sunday.

But one Danish diplomat played down the report.

The online edition of Politiken newspaper said that the 28-year-old man charged with having tried to kill cartoonist Kurt Westergaard late Friday had also been involved in a plot against Clinton in Kenya.

Clinton visited Kenya last August.

Their report said Kenyan police had arrested the suspect in 2009 and had held him for seven weeks. The Kenyan press had linked his arrest with a plot against Clinton, the paper added.

“This connection has been confirmed to Politiken by intelligences source,” the article added.

The newspaper noted that a statement Saturday from the Danish intelligence service, PET, had said of the suspect: “He is also suspected of having been involved in terror related activities during his stay in East Africa.”

The suspect, who allegedly broke into Westergaard’s home with an axe in a bid to kill him because of a caricature he had drawn of the prophet Mohammed which sparked deadly protests in the Muslim world, has not been named by the Danish authorities.

Approached by Politiken, Bo Jensen, the Danish ambassador to Kenya, would neither confirm or deny that the suspect charged in Denmark was the same person the previous year in Kenya.

But Jensen told the Danish news agency Ritzau the man arrested in Kenya had been picked up because his papers were not in order.

Kenyan officials had not confirmed he was involved in any plot against Clinton, he added. “It’s just a story in a newspaper.”

Danish intelligence, approached by AFP, refused to comment on the story.

http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/clinton-plot-terrorist-cartoonist/2010/01/03/id/345217?s=al&promo_code=948E-1


16 posted on 01/04/2010 10:06:04 AM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Candor7

But they put him back on the street, I see. Even allowed him to travel to Denmark.


17 posted on 01/04/2010 10:11:41 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Candor7

Hmm. Very interesting. I don’t know whether to believe it or not, but I’ll file it away for further cross-connections.

I think that Barry has given Kenya and Odinga a wide birth because he doesn’t want anyone thinking of him as a Kenyan. Or even as Kenyan Muslim.

That’s why he vacations in Hawaii, not in Kenya, and the press reminded us every five minutes that he was born in Hawaii and grew up there. (Nothing about Indonesia, either.) And that’s presumably why Kenya has completely dropped off the radar map in the MSM.

You’d think some enterprising reporter or news show might be interested in doing some colorful background stories on our biracial president’s Kenyan origins. Far from it. They have dropped it like a hot potato.


18 posted on 01/04/2010 10:17:43 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Cicero; Fred Nerks

Yet Obama is very active behind the scenes with Kenya , Odinga and his sector of Kenyan politics while publicly distancing himself completely from the elected Kenyan government.

Several “educational programs are currently being run in Kenya, all neo colonial in nature, to keep the Kenyan politicians tied to the Obama myth.One is a course training on parliamentary method and democracy in order to undercut the tribal associations in politics there, so democracy can be used to install Odinga under a policy of Sharia Law, converting Kenya into a Muslim nation. This effort is tio establish the African wing of the caliphate from Yemen to Soamlia, Kenya, Sudan, Libya and across North Africa.

Its not about democracy, its about the Islamification of Kenya. The tribal politics protects Kenya, even though it is “undemocratic,” in nature.

This is why Obama is heavily involved in Yemen and is releasinng Gitmo Al Qaeda prisoners back where they can do the most damage to the West.


19 posted on 01/04/2010 10:29:33 AM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: chuck_the_tv_out

I’m stealing that!


20 posted on 01/04/2010 10:54:57 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 348 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-24 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson