Posts Tagged ‘Kurt Westergaard’
Charlie Hebdo were asking for it: it’s reverse ecumenicism, dummy
In 2006, Christopher Hitchens spoke about the Kurt Westergaard, the Danish caricaturist came under attack from Islamists after he had drawn a 2005 caricature of the Prophet Mohamed with a bomb hidden in his Turban. The cartoon was one of 12 similar cartoons on Mohamed published Jyllands-Posten newspapers.
Westergaard was forced into an life on the run. Hardline Muslims wanted him dead.
One day, a 28-year-old man broke into Westergaard’s home. He was armed with an axe and a knife. Westergaard was home looking after his five-year-old granddaughter, Stephanie. Westergaard ran into his “panic room”. Stephanie was outside in the living room.
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Posted: 8th, January 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Is A Self-Hating Jew
NO sooner does Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard says that Muslims need to develop a sense of humour and an appreciation of satire than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad let’s it be known that he’s Jewish.
Westergaard – he of those Prophet cartoons – says Muslims are not “free of being mocked or being offended.”
Jews, on the other hand, love being mocked and offended, and giving offence – just so long as it’s funny.
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Posted: 3rd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)