Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Delusions...

So often we hear, from the opponents of the war on terror, that somehow we are at fault – that if only we were more understanding, or appeasing, or multi-culturally aware, then the radical Islamists would no longer hate us and attack us. Their contention is that we could live our own lives in peace, just don't offend (whatever that actually means) the Muslims, and we can all just get along.

Bullshit.

In Denmark, they just arrested some folks who were trying to kill a cartoonist. His capital crime? He drew a cartoon of Mohammed – the same sort of thing that somehow every other religion on earth manages to tolerate. How can we possibly just “get along” with people like this:

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.

Two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin were arrested in pre-dawn raids in western Denmark, the police intelligence agency said.

The Dane was suspected of violating Danish terror laws but likely would be released after questioning as the investigation continues, said Jakob Scharf, the head of the PET intelligence service. The two Tunisians would be expelled from Denmark, he said.

The agency 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.

You can see these “offensive” cartoons right here.