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A Danish man of Palestinian origin has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and wounding two Israeli salesmen at a shopping centre in Odense in Denmark. Police said they were unsure what the motive was, but Danish media have speculated it may have been a protest against Israeli air raids in Gaza. The 27-year-old suspect turned himself in. He reportedly denies trying to kill the men but admits carrying a gun. The men were shot on Wednesday while selling hair products. One was hit in the arm and the other in the le

The ambush was set, but “Terry” Taliban didn’t step into it. The most successful hunters are not the ones who bag something every time, but the ones who hunt all the time, and 2 Para has been hunting the most dangerous prey. The soldiers of C-co 2 Para are not sure how many they’ve killed in the past five months, but the estimates are around 200, and during the days I spent with them, their average daily kill would put them well over that number. Moving out of our ambush position, we set off from the ANA (Afghan National Army)...

Pure hell of the siege of Musa Qala A little-reported battle against the Taliban in which seven of our (Poster's note: "our" means British, the Royal Irish Brigade troops) troops died has been revealed as one of the fiercest and most heroic of the Afghan campaign. Lieutenant-Colonel DJ Reynolds Musa Qala, a besieged outpost deep in Taliban territory, holds a special place in the battle records of the Pathfinder platoon of 16 Air Assault Brigade – and of the Irishmen, Danes and other soldiers who braved face-to-face fighting to relieve them. When a column at last got through to Musa...

Groups of youths torched schools and cars in a sixth consecutive night of violence across Denmark, mostly in immigrant neighborhoods, police said Saturday. Forty-three people were arrested. The spate of vandalism started last weekend, and some believe it intensified with the reproduction of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers Wednesday. The unrest spread across Denmark, with youths torching dozens of cars and buildings and lobbing rocks at police and firefighters in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Ringsted, Slagelse and other cities, officials said. Police said they were not sure what triggered the unrest. Some observers said immigrant youths were protesting...

Stop The Apologizing Already Apologies must be in this year, Danes sorry for looting and pillaging MORE than 1200 years ago hordes of bloodthirsty Viking raiders descended on Ireland, pillaging monasteries and massacring the inhabitants. On Wednesday, one of their more mild-mannered descendants stepped ashore to apologise. The Danish Minister for Culture, Brian Mikkelson, who was in Dublin to celebrate the arrival of a replica Norse longboat, apologised for the invasion and destruction inflicted. "In Denmark we are certainly proud of this ship but we are not proud of the damage to the people of Ireland that followed in the...

Less than a year after Danish cartoonists ignited protests across the Muslim world with their depictions of Muhammad, another group from that country has risked offending Iran's president by calling him a "swine" in a hidden message included an advertisement that got past censors and editors at the Tehran Times. Surrend, a Danish art group that targets world leaders, successfully submitted an advertisement to the newspaper that, at first glance, expressed support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Story continues below)

Most weeks, the White House sees a procession of foreign leaders, and the past week alone brought the leaders of the Congo Republic, Chile and Honduras through the Oval Office. But only the prime minister of Denmark was granted a meeting and lunch at Camp David with President Bush, not to mention a 10-mile bicycle ride through the Catoctin Mountain woods. "He's very fast," Anders Fogh Rasmussen observed afterward. "I consider myself a skilled mountain biker, but it was challenging." It was the first time in more than two years that Bush welcomed a foreign chief to Camp David --...

Freepers cirque23, firebrand, and AliVeritas were among the crowd at the demonstration today in support of freedom at the Danish Consulate. Another freeper was there who forgot his screen name but was part of the DC demonstrations outside Cheney's house in 2000. Juliej could not get out of work until 1, so she missed it, but she did try to stop by.We started assembling at the northwest corner of 47th and Second Avenue. A guy with a Viking helmet, another guy with a Lego sign, a guy with a Danish flag painted on his face, lots of people with signs...

ALL-AH HELL BUSTS LOOSE By ANDREA PEYSER THE young man with the hot head calls himself Abdul lah, which he translates to mean "slave of God." This slave is revolting, in more ways than one. "If anyone disrespects the prophet, it's our duty to kill him," he said. "One drop of Muslim blood is worth all the blood in the world." The man who calls himself Abdullah steeled his gaze at a non-believer. "You insult the prophet," he snarled, "and you will pay." And then this young man with no identifiable name displayed a handmade sign depicting four faces, all...

The racist cartoons By Eric S. Margolis THE disgraceful racist cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed originally published by a sensation-seeking Danish newspaper have produced an international firestorm of hysteria and racism. Mobs of enraged Muslims have rioted from Morocco to Indonesia and burned Danish and Norwegian embassies. Editors of other European newspapers that ran the offensive cartoons piously insist they did so to defend the sacred right of free speech. This writer detests any form of censorship, including so-called ‘hate laws’ that are really modern forms of heresy and blasphemy statutes. But free speech, as the great American jurist Felix...

Is Google censoring the blogs? First do no evil right? Thinking and communicating thoughts is the essence of humanity. Example #1---here is a posting on JihadWatch today Egyptian editor who printed cartoons has left the country Egyptian Sandmonkey, who has done such important work during the entire cartoon rage episode, and was the first to reveal that the Egyptian paper Al Fagr printed the cartoons in October, now tells us that the editor responsible has left Egypt -- not surprising, since editors who printed the cartoons in Jordan and Algeria have been arrested. 1. Search Google with the phrase “...

Copenhagen - Denmark's premier complained that his nation had been unfairly portrayed as intolerant in the international furore over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons and his foreign minister said a government apology would be pointless. After meeting with a newly formed network of moderate Muslims, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on Monday for peaceful dialogue to defuse Denmark's biggest international crisis since World War II. "This meeting just testifies that the Danish government wants a positive dialogue with all groups in the Danish society," Fogh Rasmussen said. "The way forward is peaceful." However, critics said the network did not represent...

Tehran - A Brazilian was the first to officially enter an Iranian newspaper's contest for cartoons about the Holocaust, said Masoud Shojai, head of the contest secretariat, on Monday. The contest was devised by Hamshahri, one of Iran's top five newspapers, in response to publication in the West of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The newspaper said its contest was a test of the Western world's readiness to print cartoons about the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews in World War II. The first entry depicts a man, smoking a cigarette and wearing a blue and white striped prison uniform,...

While I am a frequent poster on Free Republic, some events at times compel me to post an article, a commentary. Now is such a time. Obviously we are all familiar with the events engulfing Europe, the ubiquitous "Mohammed Cartoon Story". I feel this is an appropriate time and forum to post some personal observations I have made regarding the events resulting from the publishing of catoons that have caused an uproar in the Islamic world. I am not a professional journalist, so please bear with me as I attempt to put my feelings to words. In my usual style...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark urged its citizens to leave Indonesia on Saturday, warning of "clear and present danger" from Muslim extremists seeking revenge for Danish newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. The foreign ministry said all Danes should leave the world's most populous Muslim country as soon as possible. "Concrete information indicates than an extremist group wishes to actively seek out Danes in protest for the publication of the Prophet Mohammad cartoons," a ministry statement said. Denmark has been the target of protests in Islamic countries since cartoons of the Prophet, first published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September,...

Danes in Indonesia 'under threat' Danish embassies have been the target of angry protestors Danish nationals have been urged to leave Indonesia over fears they may be targeted in the row over cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad. The foreign ministry says intelligence reports suggest an extremist group is actively seeking out Danes and Danish interests in Indonesia. It is the most serious yet in a string of advisories issued by Copenhagen to Danish nationals in Muslim countries. Denmark has temporarily shut its missions in Indonesia, Iran and Syria. Embassy staff in the first two countries were withdrawn after threats were...

The affair of the offensive Danish cartoons gets murkier by the day. After two months of legitimately and unsuccessfully trying to squeeze an apology out of the Jyllands Posten newspaper and its cultural editor, Flemming Rose, Imam Ahmad Abu Laban launched a campaign to spread the word to the wider Muslim world. Encouraged by several interviews with the Egyptian ambassador to Denmark, Mona Omar Attia, Abu Laban set off for Cairo in December brandishing copies of the cartoons as well as three others that were not published and were even more offensive. His tour to drum up support for his...

Some other Americans expressed concern that perhaps this means America is losing its edge. Does this mean that we are NOT the Great Satan this week? Now Denmark is the Great Satan? Is America losing its greatness? Can we get it back? Is this a result of our failing competitiveness in the maths and sciences? (sigh) Americans, Americans, Americans. You have nothing to fear. Being "The Great Satan" -- just like being the original Satan -- is not a position you can apply for. Either you are the Great Satan or you aren't. You want proof? Who was the Great...

Danish paper won't run Holocaust cartoons Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 9, 2006 The top editor of the Danish newspaper whose caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad sparked rage throughout the Islamic world said Wednesday the daily would not reprint Holocaust cartoons being solicited by an Iranian newspaper. Editor-in-Chief Carsten Juste said his newspaper Jyllands-Posten "in no circumstances will publish Holocaust cartoons from an Iranian newspaper." A prominent Iranian newspaper has said it would hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it...

Muslims continued to react violently to cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad today, prompting Denmark’s prime minister to call the situation a “global crisis� that is resulting in more deaths and destruction with each passing day. The decision of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten to publish the cartoon last September—and media in Europe and American to follow suit—has ignited a firestorm of violence from Syria to Lebanon and Afghanistan to Indonesia. The debate is even raging in America. Former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan blamed the European press for inciting a religious war, while syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin has repeatedly asked U.S. newspapers...

New York - At the National Black Fine Art Show, a painting by Harlem artist "Tafa" depicts an upside down "Christ-like" figure with a face that resembles Osama bin Laden. No Christians have threatened the artist, or bombed the building where it is displayed, or attacked the city government. Throughout the Middle East, state-controlled newspapers regularly depict Jews and Israeli leaders in despicable, stereotypical and anti-Semitic caricatures. These cartoons show Jews with hooked noses; Stars of David morphing into swastikas; Palestinian and Arab blood drips from Jewish hands and Jews are blamed for creating AIDS. Neither those newspapers, nor Arab...

In 1945, the anti-Nazi German pastor Martin Niemoller wrote the following: "First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." This famous statement can be updated for Europeans: First they came for Israel, and we didn't speak up because we weren't Jews....

As world leaders pleaded for calm in the Mohammed cartoon row yesterday, the Danish Muslim leaders who set the crisis in motion insisted that they had been trying to promote a "dialogue of civilisations". They also angrily denied allegations from moderate Muslims and European intelligence services that hidden "masterminds" triggered the sudden explosion of protests, a full four months after 12 cartoons of the Prophet were first published in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, February 6, 2006 About 2,000 students of the Jamia Milia Islamia University clashed with police on Monday when they were stopped on their way to the Danish embassy to protest against caricatures of Prophet Mohammed. Prophet Mohammed caricatures had appeared in a Danish newspaper. Police said the students started to gather on the Janpath Road in central Delhi in the afternoon and wanted to go to the Danish embassy to protest. "When we tried to stop them, they started pelting us with stones," said Manish Agarwal, additional deputy commissioner of police. He added that water...

Orchestrated Muslim "Rage" by Charles Moore, Telegraph It's some time since I visited Palestine, so I may be out of date, but I don't remember seeing many Danish flags on sale there. Not much demand, I suppose. I raise the question because, as soon as the row about the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Jyllands-Posten broke, angry Muslims popped up in Gaza City, and many other places, well supplied with Danish flags ready to burn. (In doing so, by the way, they offered a mortal insult to the most sacred symbol of my own religion, Christianity, since the Danish...

(Side Bar excerpt with picture): Young Danes in Copenhagen hold up a banner reading "Sorry" in support of those offended by the newspaper Jylland-Posten. The newspaper has apologized for publishing caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, but key editors say they don't regret the decision.

The Danish government stepped up efforts Tuesday to curb the damage caused by the publication of cartoons in a Danish newspaper linking the Prophet Muhammad to terrorism. But the moves failed to allay Muslim anger as retailers boycotted Danish goods in the Middle East and protesters in Gaza set fire to photos of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The economic fallout continued, with the French supermarket chain Carrefour announcing it was pulling Danish goods from its shelves in Arab countries. A day after the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, apologized for offending Muslims, the Danish foreign minister, Per Stig Moller, handed out...

Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades members hold anti-Denmark demonstration Sunday to protest recent publication of caricatures mocking Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspaper, threaten to harm Danish nationals in territories and urge them to leave area immediately. Dozens of al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades members held a demonstration against Denmark Sunday at the main square in the West Bank town of Nablus, shouted anti-Danish slogans and threatened to harm Danish targets located in the West Bank and Gaza. Sunday's demonstration is the last in a string of Muslim rallies to protest the recent publication of a series of caricatures mocking Muslim prophet Muhammad in the...

Five Danes guilty of Iraq abuse Capt Annemette Hommel was sent home early from Iraq A Danish army captain and four military police sergeants have been found guilty of abusing prisoners while they were based in southern Iraq. But the judge ruled that because of "extenuating circumstances", the five would not be punished. He said they had not received clear guidelines from the Danish military. Capt Annemette Hommel and the others were convicted of verbal humiliation and forcing prisoners to maintain painful postures during interrogation. Hard line Capt Hommel, 38, and the four other defendants had denied the accusations relating...

Recently, when a Danish author complained that he couldn’t find anyone to illustrate his book on the Muslim prophet, Mohammed, the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten invited cartoonists to submit artwork for publication. Twelve responded, and, true to his word, editor Flemming Rose ran their cartoons in the newspaper. As we know, depictions of Mohammed are forbidden by Islam. Muslim immigrants to Denmark made outraged representations to an unrepentant Rose, claiming that the newspaper had deliberately provoked and insulted Muslims. “This type of democracy is worthless for Muslims,” Imam Raed Hlayhel wrote in a statement. “Muslims will never accept this kind...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - A Danish pizzeria owner was jailed Tuesday for refusing to serve French and German tourists in protesting their countries' opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq. A Danish court found Aage Bjerre guilty of discrimination and fined him $900. Bjerre refused to pay, and will now serve an eight-day sentence. "I'm doing it to show my sympathy with the United States. It shows how seriously I mean it," he told The Associated Press by telephone. "But one should also remember that eight days is a small price to pay when American soldiers go to Iraq and...

Per Stig Moeller wants a clear advice on the future of the treaty Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller has suggested that his country's referendum on the EU constitution may be called off.Danes had been due to take part in a legally binding vote on 27 September, but the re-think follows the French and Dutch rejection of the treaty. Mr Moeller said he did not expect EU leaders meeting this week to give a clear answer on the fate of the text. The charter has been ratified by 10 of the 25 member states so far. EU foreign ministers...

COPENHAGEN, January 28 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Concerned their influence may draw voters’ support away from his party during the coming general elections, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on Muslim imams not to involve in the polls and to “stay out of politics”. “In Denmark, politics and religion are separate,” Rasmussen was quoted by Agence France Presse (AFP) as saying Friday, January 28. “Pastors do not use the church to push their parishioners to vote for specific parties. Imams should not do so either,” he added. Danish voters are due to head for polling stations February 8...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - An Idaho lab has released conclusive results showing 36 mortar shells recently unearthed in southern Iraq contained no chemical warfare agent, the Danish army said Sunday. Initial examinations by Danish and British troops had indicated a blister agent was in the shells, which apparently date to the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. The shells were found north of Basra on Jan. 9. But tests by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho came back negative, the Danish Army Operational Command said in a statement. The results confirmed earlier findings by a U.S.-led...

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Danes restrict imams to stifle Muslim radicals By Julian Isherwood, Scandinavia Correspondent (Filed: 19/02/2004) Denmark will crack down on the immigration of Islamic preachers to try to stifle radicalism among its Muslims. A parliamentary bill does not mention the Islamic faith, but Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, has made the target of the legislation clear in announcing restrictions on "foreign missionaries". It had been "too easy" for them to get a residence permit, he said. "That is why we are now putting forward new requirements for residing in the country, like the demand that imams and others have...

Chemical Weapons Found In Iraq By Mike Minton Talon News January 12, 2004 Danish troops Friday discovered what is believed to be Mustard Gas or some other form of blistering agent inside a cache of 36 aging warheads near the town of Al Quarnah, just north of Basra, where some 400 Danish soldiers are stationed. Lt. Nikolaj Groen, spokesman for the Danish Defense Command, told Talon News, "I can confirm that 36 mortar shells, with what is believed to be a blister gas, have been found by Danish forces in Iraq." In an exclusive phone interview, Major Wolf, the Duty...

A fourth round of tests conducted on mortar shells found in Iraq 10 days ago by Danish troops has determined that they did not contain chemical weapons, contradicting field tests by British and Danish experts last week. The results of the latest evaluation by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho were announced Sunday by the Danish Army Operational Command. The results mirrored findings late last week by a U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group, which was dispatched to the site in Basra after the British and Danish tests indicated that the shells contained a form of...

<p>Tests by Danish, British and U.S. experts have been inconclusive in determining if mortar shells unearthed last week in southern Iraq contain a blister agent, a Danish army spokesman said Wednesday.</p> <p>The 36 shells, discovered last week by Danish troops, are believed to be from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.</p>

Danes Prepare for Snow in Iraq Denmark's troops in Iraq may dream of the frost of a Scandinavian winter on days when the temperature rises to a blistering 46 degrees. But many may have been wondering if the military back home really had to rub it in when a recent supply shipment turned up a snowplough and a stock of salt for icy roads. Baking in the heat and dust outside Basra, the 380-odd Danes could have been forgiven for thinking the lawnmowers also included in the cargo were a mirage. "We admit that there were some mistakes made in...