Killing for a cartoon: If one's priorities are so disordered, that mentality will have far-reaching effects on the stability of one's culture, society, and economy. The resulting climate of fear stifles development and innovation: Why think outside the box if it will get you killed? And why develop anything if the next enraged mob will burn it down? In other words, the logical conclusion of this sort of behavior is jihad causing and perpetuating poverty through mental enslavement and physical terror.
It is a consequence of the absence of that mentality that explains why Danes and Norwegians aren't flocking to Islamic countries for a better life, but the other way around.
An update on this story. "Police: Norway terror plot targeted Danish paper," by Jan M. Olden and Bjoern H. Amland for the Associated Press, September 26:
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Three terror suspects who were arrested in an alleged al-Qaida plot in Norway were likely planning an attack against a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, Norwegian and Danish police said Tuesday.
The intelligence branch of Denmark's police, PET, said the suspects were believed to be planning an attack either against the Jyllands-Posten newspaper directly or against people in Denmark linked to the 12 drawings that sparked outrage in Muslim countries in 2006.
The men were arrested July 8 in what U.S. and Norwegian officials believe was a plot linked to the same Pakistan-based al-Qaida planners behind thwarted schemes to blow up New York's subway and a British shopping mall.
Siv Alsen, spokeswoman at the Norwegian Police Security Service, told The Associated Press that one of the suspects, 37-year-old Iraqi Kurd Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak Bujak, had disclosed the plot to investigators.
"We can confirm that he has confessed and explained about his role in planning terror. He was planning this together with the two others arrested," Alsen said. "The information we got indicates that it (Jyllands-Posten) was the target."
Gratitude:
The other suspects in the case are 31-year-old Uzbek national David Jakobsen and the alleged ringleader, 39-year-old Mikael Davud, an Uighur who came to Norway in 1999 and has Norwegian citizenship.
Their lawyers have said they intend to plead innocent to any terror charges.
Brynjar Meling, Bujak's defense lawyer, confirmed to The Associated Press that his client had admitted to being involved in the plot.
"He says that it's important as a Muslim to tell the truth," Meling said. "It is important that the matter doesn't become bigger than it already is and damage Muslims more than it already has done."
Meling said Bujak told investigators the suspects had dropped their plans even before they were arrested and that Bujak wasn't linked to al-Qaida in any way. Meling declined to comment on whether Jyllands-Posten was the target.
An AP investigation shows that authorities learned early on about the alleged cell by intercepting e-mails from an al-Qaida operative in Pakistan.
It was the second time this month that Scandinavian police said the Danish newspaper was the target of planned attacks.
On Sept. 10, a Chechen boxer was injured in a small explosion at a Copenhagen hotel while preparing a letter bomb, likely intended for the Jyllands-Posten, Danish police said.
PET chief Jakob Scharf said Tuesday that the two cases, which were not believed to be related, "illustrate that there is a priority among militant Islamists to carry out acts of terror against Denmark and symbols connected" to the cartoons.
Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favorable, for fear it could lead to idolatry.
And so people have to die. Priorities:
Intelligence officials say Denmark remains in the cross-hairs of Islamic terrorists because of the cartoons, which were first published by Jyllands-Posten five years ago, and reprinted by a range of Western papers in early 2006, triggering fiery protests from Morocco to Indonesia.
A Somali man is facing terror charges after police say he broke into the home of one of the cartoonists armed with a knife and ax. The cartoonist was unharmed.That cartoonist is Kurt Westergaard, who produced the image above, which has become the most famous of the initial round of Motoons.
Jyllands-Posten's headquarters in Aarhus, western Denmark, is protected by a metal fence and round-the-clock security guards. All mail is scanned before being opened.
"We feel safe about the security measures that surround us," Lars Munch, managing director of the media group that owns Jyllands-Posten, told AP.
Some folks just don't like it when their BS is questioned.
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"The other suspects in the case are 31-year-old Uzbek national David Jakobsen"
"David Jakobsen" an Uzbek national? When did he get that old-time religion, the one he's defending by plotting to kill Danish newspapermen? Or is the name one taken for protective coloration in the West, so as to make it easier to avoid detection? Or is he a convert to Islam, one of those lost souls who goes with what from his limited perspective isthe "winning horse" (see Osama Bin Laden)? Or possibly that's his real name as an Uzbek Muslim?
After all, Baudouin de Courtenay was a celebrated Polish linguist. Barack Obama is an American President. Strange things happening every day.
"Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favorable, for fear it could lead to idolatry."
In saying that, they deny centuries of Islamic history. According to The Mohammed Image Archive (http://zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/), the prohibition on depicting Mohammed did not occur until the 16th or 17th century. Even after the 17th century, up to modern times, Islamic depictions of Mohammed (especially in Shi'ite areas) continued to be produced.
Though impervious to rational or ethical arguments, Islam is extremely sensitive to satire, especially directed at Mo. Ridicule will destroy Islam, which is why they fear free speech so much.
"On September 10, a Chechen boxer was injured in a small explosion." The poor unfortunate dog. I hope they got him to the vet in time to be fixed up and suitably neutered.
Only working dogs (sheep dogs, watch dogs, guard dogs) are halal. Pet dogs are haram.
RE: "There is no justification for burning the Koran or drawing cartoons of Muhammad."
OH YES THERE IS! Those who burn Korans or draw cartoons of Muhammad are sending a message, a message that free speech is sacred and free people are not going to allow Islamic intimidation to stop it.
Pamela, Robert, David, Geert, and others, are great spokesmen for the effort to inform people of the dangers of Islam, and they have pointed out that we, the people, having the right to free speech, also have the right to draw cartoons of anything we want to, including the warrior Muhammad, as well as the right to burn anything we want to, including the right to burn Mein Kampf or my Koran.
But, if they want to have an even bigger impact, in addition to talking/writing about how Islam affects free speech, THEY ALSO NEED TO PROMOTE THE EXERCISE OF FREE SPEECH, ie: they need to promote DOING things that reinforce the whole concept of free speech. For example, they need to promote draw Muhammad days and they need to promote Koran burnings. An "International Free Speech Day" may be an option. Whatever/however/whenever it's done, it's sure to garner Muslim outrage. But that's a good thing because it's Muslim outrage that gets MSM coverage.
A message needs to be sent, a strong message, a message that free people are not going to sit by while free speech is trampled by Muslims, a message that will get the MSM's attention BECAUSE it will upset Muslims, something the MSM tries its best not to do and quickly condemns anyone who does.
A message needs to be sent. A message MUST be sent.
Here's a petition for an International Free Speech Day. Anyone who wants to send a message about the sanctity of free speech needs to sign it and forward its website address so others can sign it:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/nationalfreespeechday/
Yeah.. This is Islam.
Draw a there prophet and 1000 people die...
Totally moderation
I'm going to rewrite certain passages in this article, the way they might have appeared, if the reporters and law enforcement personnel, etc, knew a bit more than they do now, and were a bit more prepared to call things by their right names.
"Three Muslim ghazi raiders who were arrested in an alleged al-Qaida plot ('The Base') in Norway were likely planning an attack against a Danish newspaper that published caricatures of Mohammed, Norwegian and Danish police said Tuesday.
'The intelligence branch of Denmark's police, PET, said the suspects were believed to be planning an attack either against the Jyllands-Posten newspaper directly or against people in Denmark linked to the 12 drawings that were viewed with hysterical outrage in Muslim countries in 2006.
'The three Muslims were arrested July 8 in what U.S. and Norwegian officials believe was a plot linked to the same Pakistan-based al-Qaida ('The Fort') planners behind thwarted schemes to blow up New York's subway and a British shopping mall.
'Siv Alsen, spokeswoman at the Norwegian Police Security Service, told The Associated Press that one of the suspects, 37-year-old Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak Bujak, a Kurdish Muslim from Iraq, had disclosed the plot to investigators...
'The other suspects in the case are David Jakobsen, a 31-year-old Muslim from Uzbekistan, and the alleged ringleader, 39-year-old Mikael Davud, a Uighur Muslim from China, who came to Norway in 1999 and has Norwegian citizenship...
'It was the second time this month that Scandinavian police said the Danish newspaper was the target of planned attacks by Muslims.
On Sept. 10, a Chechen Muslim was injured in a small explosion at a Copenhagen hotel while preparing a letter bomb, likely intended for the Jyllands-Posten, Danish police said.
"PET chief Jakob Scharf said Tuesday that the two cases, which were not believed to be related, "illustrate that there is a priority among jihad-minded Muslims to carry out acts of terror against Denmark and symbols connected" to the cartoons.
'A Somali Muslim man is facing terror charges after police say he broke into the home of one of the cartoonists armed with a knife and ax. The cartoonist was unharmed.".
So, what do we see? - Muslims, Muslims, Muslims, from all over the Ummah, black, brown and yellow.
Kurdish Muslim from Iraq; 'David Jakobsen' (Dawud bin Yusef? Or a convert from among the German diaspora in Russian Central Asia?) a Muslim from Uzbekistan. Mikael Davud, Uighur Muslim from China - given asylum in Norway, and now caught busy plotting to carry out an act of Jihad in Denmark. A Chechen Muslim, from the Caucasus. And, from Africa, a Somali Muslim.
The first three named - the Kurdish, Uzbek and Uighur Muslims - were caught when their emails with a *Pakistani* Muslim who is linked with Al-Qaeda (founded by an *Arab* Muslim) were intercepted.
Jihad International.
A further point, however: not one of them is ethnically Arab.
A whole bunch of deluded non-Arabs zealously defending the memory of the murderous and piratical Arab warlord Mohammed and seeking to further his grand project: a worldwide Islamic Empire of the Arabs.
Apologies.
Consistency!
For 'an alleged al-Qaida plot ('The Base') in Norway' read 'an alleged plot by al-Qaida ('The Fort') in Norway'.