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  • Arabs attempt to murder Danish cartoonists.

    Or rather they plotted to and were caught by Danish police.

    Danish cartoons 'plotters' held
    Danish police have arrested three people suspected of planning to attack a cartoonist who drew caricatures satirising the Prophet Muhammad.

    Denmark's intelligence agency said the arrests were made in the western Aarhus region at 0330 GMT "to prevent a murder linked to terrorism".

    Two of the suspects are Tunisian and the third is a Dane of Moroccan origin.

    The pictures in Denmark's biggest daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005 sparked deadly worldwide protests.

    The Danish citizen will be released pending further investigation, while the Tunisians will be held until they are expelled from the country, said the Danish intelligence agency PET.

    Earlier reports said five people had been arrested.

    'Concrete plans'

    The intelligence agency said the detentions were made "after lengthy surveillance".

    I have turned fear into anger and resentment
    Kurt Westergaard
    Cartoonist

    It did not identify the target of the alleged plot, but the online edition of Jyllands-Posten said its cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, was the focus.

    The newspaper, based in Aarhus, said Mr Westergaard, 73, and his 66-year-old wife, Gitte, had been under police protection for the past three months.

    In a statement on Jyllands-Posten's website, Mr Westergaard said: "Of course I fear for my life when the police intelligence service say that some people have concrete plans to kill me.

    "But I have turned fear into anger and resentment."

    The BBC's Thomas Buch-Andersen in Copenhagen says the arrests have stunned people in Denmark, where the furore over the cartoons was thought to have passed.

    Mr Westergaard was one of 12 artists behind the drawings but he was responsible for what was considered the most controversial of the pictures.

    The caricature featured the head of Islam's holiest prophet with a turban depicting a bomb with a lit fuse.

    The cartoons were later reprinted by more than 50 newspapers, triggering a wave of protests in parts of the Muslim world.

    The demonstrations culminated a year ago with the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in Damascus and Beirut and dozens of deaths in Nigeria, Libya and Pakistan.
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  • #2
    Over reaction FTW!
    You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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    • #3
      They sure hold a grudge.
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      • #4
        "Portraying some Muslims as bastardizing Islam for terrorist purposes is outrageous. Now, for that, and in the name of the Prophet, we will proceed to kill you."

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        • #5
          Shouldn't have carried the bombs on their heads then they wouldn't have been caught
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          • #6
            People who draw lines on paper for a living deserve to die.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Theben
              People who draw lines on paper for a living deserve to die.
              Yeah! Death to Rob Liefeld!
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              • #8
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                • #9
                  I always turn to the comics before drawing up my death list too.
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                  • #10
                    That doesn't surprise me, Lancer.
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                    • #11
                      [q=BBC]
                      Danish Muhammad cartoon reprinted
                      Protesters burn a Danish flag in Pakistan in February
                      The row saw Danish flags being burnt in Muslim states
                      Danish newspapers have reprinted one of several caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad which sparked violent protests across the Muslim world two years ago.

                      They say they wanted to show their commitment to freedom of speech after an alleged plot to kill one of the cartoonists behind the drawings.

                      Three suspects were held in Denmark on Tuesday "to prevent a murder linked to terrorism", officials said.

                      The cartoons were originally published by Jyllands-Posten in September 2005.

                      Danish embassies were attacked around the world and dozens died in riots that followed.

                      'Defiant'

                      Jyllands-Posten and many other major newspapers - including Politiken and Berlingske Tidende - reprinted the caricature in their Wednesday editions.


                      Kurt Westergaard (15/09/2006)
                      I have turned fear into anger and resentment
                      Kurt Westergaard
                      Cartoonist

                      The cartoon depicts Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.

                      The editors say no-one should feel their life is threatened because of a drawing.

                      "We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper will always defend," Berlingske Tidende said.

                      The cartoon was also broadcast on national television, and even newspapers that were originally against the publication of the caricatures are now backing the campaign to defend freedom of speech, the BBC's Thomas Buch-Andersen in Copenhagen says.

                      One Danish tabloid published all 12 drawings, the Associated Press news agency reported.

                      'Deeply shaken'

                      On Tuesday, the head of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (Pet), Jakob Sharf, said its operatives had carried out pre-dawn raids in the Aarhus region.

                      The three suspects - two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin - had been detained "after lengthy surveillance", he added.

                      The Danish citizen will be released pending further investigation, while the Tunisians will be held until they are expelled from the country.

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                      The Pet did not identify the target of the alleged plot, but the online edition of Jyllands-Posten said its cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, was the focus.

                      The newspaper, based in Aarhus, said Mr Westergaard, 73, and his 66-year-old wife, Gitte, had been under police protection for the past three months.

                      In a statement on Jyllands-Posten's website, Mr Westergaard said: "Of course I fear for my life when the police intelligence service say that some people have concrete plans to kill me.

                      "But I have turned fear into anger and resentment."

                      The editor of Jyllands-Posten, Carsten Juste, said he and his staff had been "deeply shaken" by the news.

                      "We'd become more or less used to death threats and bomb threats since the cartoons, but it's the first time that we've heard about actual murder plans - that's new," he said.

                      Muslim anger

                      The BBC's Thomas Buch-Andersen in Copenhagen says the arrests have stunned people in Denmark, where the furore over the cartoons was thought to have passed.

                      Mr Westergaard was one of 12 artists behind the drawings but he was responsible for what was considered the most controversial of the pictures.

                      The cartoons were later reprinted by more than 50 newspapers, triggering a wave of protests in parts of the Muslim world.

                      The demonstrations culminated a year ago with the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in Damascus and Beirut and dozens of deaths in Nigeria, Libya and Pakistan. [/q]
                      You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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                      • #12
                        The cartoons needs to be printed by every newspaper in the world
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Adagio
                          The cartoons needs to be printed by every newspaper in the world
                          Oh God No! Unless you can make them funny, and not just obvious racist crap.
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                          • #14
                            If they are so upset about images it is their weakness. We just do not know how to exploit it.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by muxec
                              If they are so upset about images it is their weakness. We just do not know how to exploit it.
                              It's easier to exploit people when you don't piss them off. A weakness would be being to trusting of people trying to exploit you.
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