Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard assaulted in his home

[Gromovnik]

Kurt Westergaard (74), famous for his cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, survived an another assasination attempt. He was assaulted by the unnamed Somali man (28) in his house in Aarhus, Denmark. His grand-daughter (5) was also present in the house at the time.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/...9463387&page=1
Do you think those artists will ever be able to live normal lives again? Will this lead to the increased auto-censorship in the media?

[Poet]

ah he missed

[Gromovnik]

ah he missed

He obviously never heard of the saying "never go into the gunfight with a knife"... or an axe.

[Erik]

ah he missed

The Nazi cartoonist fled to his bathroom, which he turned into a safe room exactly for such an event.
The attacker didn't manage to break through the safe room's door before the police arrived.

Do you think those artists will ever be able to live normal lives again?

Not as long as they keep provoking people.
But who cares? - if this is what they want...

Will this lead to the increased auto-censorship in the media?

What exactly do you mean by "auto-censoring"?

If anything, they are publishing things easier today, and will less regards of sensitive issues, than they did 10 years ago.

[Dr Zoidberg]

The Nazi cartoonist...

Care to extrapolate on this please Erik? How exactly is he a Nazi?

[Erik]

Care to extrapolate on this please Erik? How exactly is he a Nazi?

White pride advocate, Muslim hater, whatever you want to call him.

I call them Nazi's, because they are really all just one and the same: they single out a single ethnic/religious minority in order to re-affirm themselves as the leading master race.

To be fair though Mr Westergaard is very unhappy about the misuse of his work and has sued anti-islamist sites who do.

Because he wanted money for it, not because he disagreed with their views.

[Gromovnik]

White pride advocate, Muslim hater, whatever you want to call him.

I call them Nazi's, because they are really all just one and the same: they single out a single ethnic/religious minority in order to re-affirm themselves as the leading master race.

We all know what nazis are, but why do you think this guy is a nazi?

[Fiyenyaa]

I call them Nazi's, because they are really all just one and the same: they single out a single ethnic/religious minority in order to re-affirm themselves as the leading master race.

A religious group is nowhere near similar to an ethnic group. You can't change your ethnic group, whilst your religious group is easily changeable. Don't link the two - they are not related apart from average demographics.

[♔Goodguy1066♔]

...call them Nazi's, because they are...

I'm sorry to bother you, and this isn't personal, but if one more person puts an unnecessary apostrophe in the word 'Nazis' I am going to chew my own head off. I've seen that horrible unnecessary apostrophe everywhere, in the mudpit, in the TD, in the coliseum, on facebook, on twitter, basically all over the internet. Why does everyone keep doing this?! The Nazi's what, exactly? The apostrophe S is there to say it is someone's, or it is something, for example, "the Nazi's luchbox", or "the Nazi's dancing". Please, everyone, refrain from using that apostrophe. It doesn't make you look any cleverer, and it shouldn't be easier to write the apostrophe, as it is an extra character on the keyboard.

[Slipz]

The Nazi cartoonist fled to his bathroom.

And later on your sig it says anti-facist, makes me belive you are one of those antifa idiots, while i dont support nazism or facism, im on the verge of hating antifa idiots even more, never met a single one of those who had hes head on the right place or an proper education for that matter.

Pretty much just having that sig transforms your input into idiocy. (after reading the entire tread it seems i was right)

Its idiotic that they attack him over the pictures, so is the massive reactions it caused over the world when they were published.

At the same time christian churches are getting desecrated and destroyed for the purpose of becoming mosques and the christian world doesnt make a fuss.

not that i care since im an atheist anyway, however im tired that Islam has to be constantly treated with silk gloves, same goes for fanatic catholics ect ect.

"The Facists of the future will be called anti-facists" - Winston Churchill

[Tiberios]

The Nazi cartoonist fled to his bathroom, which he turned into a safe room exactly for such an event.

So, basicly he is a nazi because he drew a provocative cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad?

Seriously

[Saxon wårolord]

The Nazi cartoonist fled to his bathroom, which he turned into a safe room exactly for such an event.
The attacker didn't manage to break through the safe room's door before the police arrived.

Islamophobia has now given place to nazism?
Jews have become übermennsch and al Islamiyya: the Untermennsch?
That's what you're trying to say right?
In your opinion, muslims are the most discriminated religious group on earth hence this 'nazi' allusion?
That's what you meant, am I mistaken?

What exactly do you mean by "auto-censoring"?

If anything, they are publishing things easier today, and will less regards of sensitive issues, than they did 10 years ago.

He probably meant checking articles before they are published........
Hence I'd be surprized to learn that western leaders are willing to apologize a second time to the muslim world for their outrageous cartoons!
In contrast, Sweden never stressed any remorse towards the Jewish people for Aftonbladet's prank....

I won't dare imaginating your reaction if a Jew had tried to kill the author with an axe!

[FaneFlugt.DK]

I won't dare imaginating your reaction if a Jew had tried to kill the author with an axe!

pft. The Mossad agents would have been succesfull and would have escaped into the night

[Saxon wårolord]

pft. The Mossad agents would have been succesfull and would have escaped into the night

The Mossad's assassination section doesn't proceed like this.

[Lunder]

The Nazi cartoonist fled to his bathroom, which he turned into a safe room exactly for such an event.
The attacker didn't manage to break through the safe room's door before the police arrived.



Not as long as they keep provoking people.
But who cares? - if this is what they want...



What exactly do you mean by "auto-censoring"?

If anything, they are publishing things easier today, and will less regards of sensitive issues, than they did 10 years ago.

ARGH! how can you say such things! provoke? this is Denmark and we are allowed to say what ever we want about anything8that sounds gay) but as Voltaire said: i disagree of what you say, but i will die for your right to say it

[Trey]

ah he missed

What? If you read the article it says that the guy was shot.

[mongrel]

Kurt Westergaard (74), famous for his cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, survived an another assasination attempt. He was assaulted by the unnamed Somali man (28) in his house in Aarhus, Denmark. His grand-daughter (5) was also present in the house at the time.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/...9463387&page=1
Do you think those artists will ever be able to live normal lives again? Will this lead to the increased auto-censorship in the media?

Artist? The cartoons were unfunny and are liberally found on any hate-site one can care to find. The problem with his works was that they was open to misuse by jihidists and Eurabia loons alike.


To be fair though Mr Westergaard is very unhappy about the misuse of his work and has sued anti-islamist sites who do. So not only is there is no excuse for this act, it was misguided. I guess Mr W has to live with the consequences of having LOLZ without thinking.

[Visna]

Do you think those artists will ever be able to live normal lives again? Will this lead to the increased auto-censorship in the media?

Kurt Westergaard is the only artist who is under protection, the rest are living perfectly normal lives. As for Westergaard, regrettably I think his normal life ended when the drawings were published.

[mongrel]

One thing for sure. He must have felt that, on this occasion, the pen was not mightier than the sword, or the axe.

[Simon Cashmere]

One thing for sure. He must have felt that, on this occasion, the pen was not mightier than the sword, or the axe.

The 9mm was mightier than both.

What a terrible world we live in when 'tolerance' extends to a political cartoonist having to spend the rest of his life in fear. The tradition of free speech in Western society is under direct assault from the totalitarian ideology of Islam, which like all totalitarian ideology uses violence and intimidation to stop any criticism levelled at it. The freedom of political dialogue in the West, including the use of satire in the political process is under direct threat by Islam. Freedom of speech means all speech, not just popular speech, and not speech that does not offend anyone.

All of us in the West need to be able to freely express our opposition to the totalitarian backward philosophies of Islam within our own countries without being assaulted, attacked, threatened. Otherwise the traditions of freedom of speech that the revolutionary forefathers fought so hard for will be lost forever.

I also explained why I think this cartoonist compares to a Nazi.

Please note, this quote above is from Erik's post which is directly above this one. If you become horribly confused and cannot follow that, please PM me and I will clear up any misunderstanding.

That is just ridiculous. He is a satirical cartoonist making fun of something. So what. To say he is somehow equivalent to the Third Reich is monstrous hyperbole. Some vague comparison to the *legions* of cartoonists in the Arab world that regularly demonise Jews and paint them as slavering monsters sucking blood and taking over the world. But hang on a sec, didn't Third Reich cartoonists do the same thing? Seems like the fanboys of Islam are more like Nazis than this cartoonist.