Danish Cartoonist Murder Plot

Remember the Danish cartoons of Mohammad that sparked worldwide riots and death threats?

Remember also that virtually all of the “courageous-speaking-truth-to-power” American media outlets refused to publish the pictures?

At first the paper that published the pictures, an exercise in press freedom, refused to apologize but it finally did.

Well the apology apparently did not do the trick. A group of Islamofascists were planning to kill one of the cartoonists.

Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.

Two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin were arrested in pre-dawn raids in western Denmark, the police intelligence agency said.
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according to Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the drawings on Sept. 30, 2005, the suspects were planning to kill its cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

"There were very concrete murder plans against Kurt Westergaard," said Carsten Juste, the paper's editor-in-chief.

Westergaard, 73, and his wife Gitte, 66, had been living under police protection, Jyllands-Posten reported.

"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," Westergaard said in a statement published on Jyllands-Posten's Web site.

It shows how in-touch with their own oh-so-precious skins the American media is. The Virginian Pilot gave a mealy mouthed excuse about not wishing to offend Muslim sensibilities.

Christian sensibilities are an entirely different matter. Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians are not about to blow you up.

“I may not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it?”

I don’t think so.

Not our media.

Now, Pat Robertson: No problem.

Here's Captain Ed's take on the issue.