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Danish cartoonist intruder shot

OxymoronP said:
It said he was Somalian, his actions say he was a Islamonut, meaning they should review who they allow into the country.
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How exactly do you know that? It's entirely possible that there were no indicators that they should have picked up on. Why not wait rather than make claims like that?

The Mark said:
I don't know.

Has he ever done anything which would indicate such?
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No, but American doesn't care about that so long as he gets to derail the thread with his pointless one-liners.
 
EnigmaO01 said:
I guess I was going with what someone posted in the thread.

Still doesn't make him smart. Sounds like he didn't succeed.
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I couldn't find anything about a hammer in the OP's news source, only a knife. Anyway, you are right, if you want to do something like this, use a gun. And thank god this guy wasn't smart enough to think of that, cartoonists are awesome :)
 
Them damn cartoonists are the root of all evil.

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Sorry, no Mohammad toons in my repertoire yet.

I wonder when they will have a mass demonstration against the killing of this terrorista?

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repeter said:
I couldn't find anything about a hammer in the OP's news source, only a knife. Anyway, you are right, if you want to do something like this, use a gun. And thank god this guy wasn't smart enough to think of that, cartoonists are awesome :)
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My guess is it's lucky for the cartoonist a gun is hard to come by in Denmark if it's anything like the other European countries. Imagine that, an argument for gun control. :mrgreen:
 
repeter said:
I couldn't find anything about a hammer in the OP's news source, only a knife. Anyway, you are right, if you want to do something like this, use a gun. And thank god this guy wasn't smart enough to think of that, cartoonists are awesome :)
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Danish media say Mr Westergaard was in his home in Copenhagen with his wife and grandchild when a man broke in and threatened him with a hammer.
 
zimmer said:
Them damn cartoonists are the root of all evil.

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Sorry, no Mohammad toons in my repertoire yet.

I wonder when they will have a mass demonstration against the killing of this terrorista?

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Why am I not surprised that someone who thinks its hilarious to draw an amateurish cartoon of Obama as a Chinese(?) monkey/Beavis is incapable of reading the article or any of the posts and realizing that the guy in question is not dead?
 
EnigmaO01 said:
Danish media say Mr Westergaard was in his home in Copenhagen with his wife and grandchild when a man broke in and threatened him with a hammer.
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Thats what Scorpian said in the OP. But, you can't find that sentence in the link, his or mine. He probably got that from an outside source, which I think is probably wrong though, since both his link, and mine confirm a knife was used. Though mine does add the use of an ax...
 
Attempt to Kill Danish Cartoonist Who Outraged Muslim World Foiled

COPENHAGEN — A Somali man wielding an ax and a knife was shot by police as he attempted to kill an artist who drew a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad that sparked outrage in the Muslim world, the head of Denmark's intelligence agency said Saturday.

Jakob Scharf said in a statement that a 28-year-old man with ties to Al Qaeda attempted to enter Kurt Westergaard's home in Aarhus shortly after 10 p.m. on Friday. But Westergaard pressed an alarm and police arrived minutes later, foiling the attempt on his life.

The attack on the artist, whose rendering was among 12 that led to the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in predominantly Muslim countries in 2006, was "terror related," Scharf said.

Westergaard, whose 5-year-old granddaughter was in the home on a sleepover, sought shelter in a specially made safe room when the suspect broke a window of the home, said Preben Nielsen of the Aarhus police.

Officers arrived two minutes later and tried to arrest the assailant, who wielded an ax at a police officer. The officer then shot the man in a knee and a hand, authorities said. Nielsen said despite his injuries the suspect's life was not in danger.

The suspect's name was not released in line with Danish privacy rules.

"The arrested man has according to PET's information close relations to the Somali terrorist group, al-Shabaab, and Al Qaeda leaders in eastern Africa," Scharf said. The PET is Denmark's intelligence agency.

Scharf said without elaborating that the man is suspected of having been involved in terror related activities in east Africa. He had been under PET's surveillance but not in connection with Westergaard, he said

The man, who had a staying permit in Denmark, was to be charged Saturday with attempted murder for trying to kill Westergaard and a police officer, Scharf said.

Westergaard remains a potential target for extremists nearly five years after he drew a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. The drawing was printed along with 11 others in Jyllands-Posten in 2005.The drawings triggered an uproar a few months later when Danish and other Western embassies in several Muslim countries were torched by angry protesters who felt the cartoons had profoundly insulted Islam.

Attempt to Kill Danish Cartoonist Who Outraged Muslim World Foiled - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com

Over a cartoon. Years later and Islamic terrorists are still trying to kill people over a cartoon they didn't like.
 
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Scorpion89 said:
BBC News - Danish cartoonist intruder shot

Danish police have shot and wounded a man who entered the home of Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad sparked a major row.

Danish media say Mr Westergaard was in his home in Copenhagen with his wife and grandchild when a man broke in and threatened him with a hammer.

Mr Westergaard is said to have raised the alarm and police entered the house and shot the intruder.

Mr Westergaard's cartoons were printed by Jyllands-Posten in 2006.

They triggered violent protests, with Danish embassies attacked around the world and dozens killed in riots.

This is breaking News just come across the wire so I won't make a comment till I see the rest of the story. But I will say if this person is a Radical Muslim I want the Muslim World come out and actually show that they want a new day and call this what it is an act of Terror.
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I think this would be a good way of bringing out the terrorist and animals.Just make a cartoon that offends those scum and they will pop out to try to take the cartoonist out, heck I bet koran toilet paper would probably work just as a well.
 
Re: Attempt to Kill Danish Cartoonist Who Outraged Muslim World Foiled

texmaster said:
Over a cartoon. Years later and Islamic terrorists are still trying to kill people over a cartoon they didn't like.
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It's not just Islamic terrorists that try to kill people exercising their right to free speech, but Muslims who are not terrorists or linked or affiliated in anyway to Islamic terrorist organizations.
 
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ScummyD said:
It's not just Islamic terrorists that try to kill people exercising their right to free speech, but Muslims who are not terrorists or linked or affiliated in anyway to Islamic terrorist organizations.
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What did you just say?


BTW, I never said they were the only ones who do this but they are the clear leader in number of attacks and violence.
 
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texmaster said:
What did you just say?
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It's fairly clear. What don't you understand?
 
A job well done to the Danish police.
 
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ScummyD said:
It's fairly clear. What don't you understand?
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No, it isn't clear.

You say its not just Islamic terrorists but Muslims who are not terrorists or linking in any way to Islamic terrorist organizations.

That doesn't make any sense. You are claiming its its not just Islamic terrorists but regular Muslims as well?
 
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texmaster said:
No, it isn't clear.

You say its not just Islamic terrorists but Muslims who are not terrorists or linking in any way to Islamic terrorist organizations.

That doesn't make any sense. You are claiming its its not just Islamic terrorists but regular Muslims as well?
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It makes perfect sense to those that follow these matters on a regular basis and know something about Islam.

And the answer to your question is yes. Devout Muslims believe it is a sin to depict Allah in drawings or images. Or even name a teddy bear Mohammad like the British school teacher that was arrested in Sudan for allowing her students to do that found out. There is a certain slice of the Muslim population that will not only take offense at such actions, but act out in violence against those that they see as defaming and insulting Islam.
 
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ScummyD said:
It makes perfect sense to those that follow these matters on a regular basis and know something about Islam.

And the answer to your question is yes. Devout Muslims believe it is a sin to depict Allah in drawings or images. Or even name a teddy bear Mohammad like the British school teacher that was arrested in Sudan for allowing her students to do that found out. There is a certain slice of the Muslim population that will not only take offense at such actions, but act out in violence against those that they see as defaming and insulting Islam.
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And hence that is why Islam and Muslim will always be consider a religion and group of hate and intolerance till they decide to get over this one thing then they aren't part of the human race.
 
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Scorpion89 said:
And hence that is why Islam and Muslim will always be consider a religion and group of hate and intolerance till they decide to get over this one thing then they aren't part of the human race.
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And then you have the christian version of that. Scorpian, every group has its own extremists, and every group has its moderates. I know a lot of very ncie muslims, who think the Al-Qaeda are just plain crazy. You cannot generalize any group, under any circumstances.
 
The fact that the Somali idiot involved did not die is actually a good thing.

The last thing we need is to make his stupid as a martyr.

A message needs to be sent to those who are responsible for the bounty; call it off or pay the price.

We need more of those cartoons to be released because we need to make sure the scumbags in question know that threats, attacks, or any other type of islam-o-nazi bull**** will not stop free expression.
 
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repeter said:
And then you have the christian version of that. Scorpian, every group has its own extremists, and every group has its moderates. I know a lot of very ncie muslims, who think the Al-Qaeda are just plain crazy. You cannot generalize any group, under any circumstances.
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Yes I can till these so-called Moderate Muslim actually step up and start destroying the radical part of Islam then they are have no grounds to talk.
 
Re: Attempt to Kill Danish Cartoonist Who Outraged Muslim World Foiled

ScummyD said:
It makes perfect sense to those that follow these matters on a regular basis and know something about Islam.
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I already do know quite a bit about Islam and its history. .

And the answer to your question is yes. Devout Muslims believe it is a sin to depict Allah in drawings or images. Or even name a teddy bear Mohammad like the British school teacher that was arrested in Sudan for allowing her students to do that found out. There is a certain slice of the Muslim population that will not only take offense at such actions, but act out in violence against those that they see as defaming and insulting Islam.
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Yet Jesus has been shown in excrement, the Virgin Mary as a whore and countless other examples of anti Christian depiction in what some claim is "art" yet there isn't a single incident that comes even close to the scale of attacks by a single string of cartoons about Mohammad.. If you truly understood Islam you would understand that it is the religion that calls upon Muslims to act out in violence to a perceived threat by "unbelievers".

Mohammad himself as he was dying claimed anyone who entered the city of Constantinople and captured it in the name of Islam would see him in heaven. He began his religion by attacking a Jewish tribe for not converting. He attacked caravans for supplies to continue his war of conversion. For its first 400 years Islam attacked and conquered Iran, Iraq, Constantinople, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and into Southern Spain long before the first Crusade. Fundamentalist Muslims are simply following the teachings in the Qur'an.

Now if you agree with that then your statement does make sense but when you responded you seemed to me to be arguing against what I was saying. If you were not, I apologize.
 
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repeter said:
And then you have the christian version of that. Scorpian, every group has its own extremists, and every group has its moderates. I know a lot of very ncie muslims, who think the Al-Qaeda are just plain crazy. You cannot generalize any group, under any circumstances.
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The worst mistake you can make is trying to equate the two religions. The scale of attacks isn't even close to comparable.
 
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Scorpion89 said:
And hence that is why Islam and Muslim will always be consider a religion and group of hate and intolerance till they decide to get over this one thing then they aren't part of the human race.
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I'm sorry, but modern standards does not determine what is human and isn't human.

The immorality of the late Carthaginians and their perpetual practice of infanticide does not remove them from the category. Same goes for Hitler, the KKK, al-Qa'ida, and the wackos in Prisons and Jails.
 
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