Not enough for attempted murder, but at least he will be deported. “Attacker of Danish “˜Mohammed” cartoonist sentenced to 10 years in prison,” from Agence France-Presse, May 2 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
COPENHAGEN “” The Somali man who attacked a Danish cartoonist for caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed will serve 10 years in prison before being expelled from Denmark, the Supreme Court confirmed Wednesday.
“There is no reason to change the 10-year prison sentence,” Denmark’s highest court ruled, stressing that Mohamed Geele, who attacked cartoonist Kurt Westergaard at his home on January 1, 2010 with an axe, was guilty of “attempted terrorism”.
The court also confirmed that once he has served his sentence the now 30-year-old Somali citizen would be expelled from Denmark and banned from ever returning.
Geele, who has been living in the Scandinavian country since he was 14 and has a wife and four young children there, had appealed his sentence to the Supreme Court, insisting the attack had nothing to do with terrorism and that he had only been trying to frighten Westergaard.
This is just meaningless wordplay. Why did he want to “frighten” Westergaard? Because he drew a cartoon of Muhammad that Geele thinks violated Islam’s blasphemy laws. Islam’s blasphemy laws call for death for blasphemy. It doesn’t matter whether it is “terrorism” or not. It’s Islam. It’s Sharia. It’s jihad.
He was initially sentenced to nine years behind bars in February 2011, but an appeals court hiked his sentence four months later to 10 years….
The Somali broke into 76-year-old Kurt Westergaard’s home near Aarhus in central Denmark on January 1, 2010 wielding an axe and screaming, “You must die! You are going to hell!“, according to the cartoonist’s testimony last year.
Geele, who is suspected of having links to the Somali Islamist movement Al-Shebab, had threatened police arriving on the scene with his axe and knife and was shot twice before being placed under arrest.…
Wednesday”s ruling came as four people face trial in Denmark for “attempted terrorism” for allegedly plotting to massacre staff at the same paper over the cartoons.