Danish cartoonist kicked out of hotel over jihadist fears, now homeless
posted at 12:10 pm on February 20, 2008 by Allahpundit
Sound familiar? It should to old-school HA readers.
Two years ago Kurt Westergaard was in his Copenhagen home drawing pictures. One of them was of the Muslim prophet, Muhammad. Now Westergaard is homeless.
Draw a picture offensive to Muslim extremists, and you might find yourself without a roof. Ask Kurt Westergaard, one of the twelve Danish cartoonists whose autumn 2005 Muhammad caricatures lead to violent protests throughout the Muslim world. He was booted from his police-protected hotel room on Feb. 15 for being “too much of a security risk.” And now the 73-year-old cartoonist and his wife are without a place to live.
This is another arrow in the jihadist quiver, but one seldom reported on amid the more sensational details of murder plots and security details: By putting someone under threat you put everyone in their orbit under threat too, which is a mighty efficient way to turn would-be allies against them. That’s one of the points of Geert Wilders’s film, I take it, which is just the Kurt Westergaard dilemma writ large: If one man’s criticism of Islam can put an entire country in the crosshairs, we’re all in this together whether we want to be or not. The only alternative is to criminalize criticism, and no one’s willing to go that route. Right?
Exit question: Surely our allies are helping to defuse this situation, no? Er, no.
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Resist We Much on April 23, 2013 at 11:24 AM
That link from the Jester site is verrrry interesting. I suppose the powers that be could be playing dumb and saying we think they acted alone so other conspirators aren’t put on notice.
mikeyboss on April 23, 2013 at 11:29 AM
Are they sure it wasn’t a Ben Affleck movie?
RadClown on April 23, 2013 at 11:36 AM
The one guy — a boxer, no advanced education. The other guy, a pothead college student, no technical education.
The difficult part is (a) detonator and (b) radio control of detonation. Would appear difficult, yes? Apparently not. The info is readily available on the interwebs. Like here. If you can use Google, then read and look at pictures, yes you can create a remote detonator out of toy parts.
Welcome to the 21st century.
SunSword on April 23, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Yep. And even that example is overly complicated.
stvnscott on April 23, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Here’s the real problem believing these two did this alone.
Where?
Tamerlan had his wife and mother living with him. So the wife has to be an accomplice. I wouldn’t doubt the mother is.
Jahar had several roommates. Some of these winners are being arrested and released, rinse repeat.
Neither had a job that provided the workspace.
So to believe no one else was involved, means they bought the supplies just a few days before and built it that morning, during the race. With no training or testing.
Along with the other IED’s.
And several guns.
And hundreds of rounds.
Just got it all over the weekend.
The Feds are lying that no one else was involved. Whatever statement Jahar gave them fit their needs.
Hell, he could have said yes to a question that asked “was anyone else involved with the Marathon bombing”?
That’s totally different than “Are you working with any groups”?
budfox on April 23, 2013 at 12:08 PM
Looks like Tamerlin may have murdered a few friends on September 11th 2011…
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Smoothies on April 23, 2013 at 12:13 PM
All I can say is “no shiite sherlock”.
dentarthurdent on April 23, 2013 at 12:33 PM
Yup, so obviously the laws that make it illegal to make a bomb, and the laws that make it illegal to kill and maim lots of people are just not effective – so all we need is some more laws to make those things more illegal and we can solve the problem.
dentarthurdent on April 23, 2013 at 12:37 PM
I’m sure a guy who’s blown people up, shot a cop in cold blood and tried to kill some more in a getaway, would never tell a lie.
IndieDogg on April 23, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Exactly how would the RUSSIANS have pegged one of the two “lone wolves” operating in America as a terrorist if this is true. Are they doing a better job of monitoring American internet traffic than our own intelligence agencies. Either that or our govt is lying to us – again. We are screwed either way.
LarryinLA on April 23, 2013 at 1:18 PM
It was a joke.
farsighted on April 23, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Acted alone?? Really??
Where did the MONEY come from?? For the clothes, the cars, the apartments, the GYM and boxing. I guess they just came in from the internet as well.
Michael73501 on April 23, 2013 at 2:13 PM
I hear the term ‘self radicalized’ all over the news. They can’t understand how the bombers don’t have a direct connection to terrorists, but can do this.
It is imperative to understand it is not ‘radical’ Islam.
It is Islam – the antithesis of western civilization.
TfromV on April 23, 2013 at 8:18 PM
They’ll conveniently come out with information that attacks the internet, and freedom but they won’t tell us who funded these guys. Probably because it was the Sauds or the FBI.
fatlibertarianinokc on April 23, 2013 at 8:46 PM
It’s still too early to say what his motivations were, but I have a hunch he’s a tea partier.
/msm
jhffmn on April 25, 2013 at 12:59 PM
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