Religion of Peace
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked an uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, "to prevent a terror-related murder," the police intelligence agency said. It did not say how many people were arrested nor did it mention which cartoonist was targeted.
However, 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.
The cartoons were later reprinted by a range of Western publications, and they sparked deadly protests in parts of the Muslim world.
Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favorable, for fear it could lead to idolatry.
posted by davis14633 at 06:18
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...because the possibility of idolatry is so much worse than murder. This is what happens when you follow ancient, cryptic texts and "holy" raving maniacs instead of developing your own moral compass.
Muslims keep demanding that the West to "respect their religious beliefs", yet they do not respect our right not to be bound by their religious edicts. They choose to follow the "laws" handed down from their shaman without question; we do not.
There is a big difference between respecting someone's culture and adhering to their religious dogma and practices. That is why we have a separation of church and state here, so that we are not all subject to (as many) laws based on the psychotic ramblings of "religious authorities".
If they want us to respect their beliefs, then they need to learn to respect the beliefs of others even when they differ from their own. Respect is a two-way street and cannot be given, it must be earned.
To quote from Mark Steyn's America Alone:
In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of “suttee”—the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. General Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural:
‘You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.'
Reference HERE
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