February 12, 2008

Five Muslims Arrested in Mohammed Cartoon Murder Plot

Jyllands-Posten, the Danish paper the first published the cartoon drawn by Kurt Westergaard of a bomb on Mohammed's turban, has this:

Early Tuesday morning, Danish police arrested several people with a Muslim background suspected of conspiring to kill Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist with Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten....

The group arrested includes Danish as well as foreign citizens. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service have followed the group for months...

Statement by cartoonist Kurt Westergaard:

"Of course I fear for my life after the Danish Security and Intelligence Service informed me of the concrete plans of certain people to kill me. However, I have turned fear into anger and indignation. It has made me angry that a perfectly normal everyday activity which I used to do by the thousand was abused to set off such madness.

Good news everyone, Allahpundit reports:
The AP has information on only three of the suspects, but says one of them will be released — and the other two merely deported back to Tunisia.
Concrete plot to murder a man, and one is released and two others deported? Justice, European style.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 10:01 AM | |