VANDALISM AS CULTURAL WEAPON
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
February 18, 2008
The world is divided and it’s time for everyone to admit it. It was never “one world” and it can’t be.
I’ll never enjoy sharing a table with a Chinese or Korean who engulfs pieces of dog in front of my eyes. It is their table, not mine.
On February the 15th, Muslims from Denmark are re-enacting the riots of the Muslims from France in 2005. The 2005 civil unrest in France of October and November was a series of riots and violent clashes, involving mainly the burning of cars and public buildings at night starting on October 27th, 2005 in Clichy-sous-Bois. A state of emergency was declared on November 8, 2005, extended for three months a few days later. The riots were triggered by the accidental death of two teenagers, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore, in Clichy-sous-Bois, who were chased by the police as the two refused to stop. The two later ran into a power substation where they died, electrocuted. And the police was held responsible.
February 16, 2008 - Gangs of Muslims in Denmark set fire to cars and garbage trucks in northern Copenhagen, the sixth night of rioting and vandalism, angry at the reprinting of the cartoon of Mohammad in 15 Danish newspapers. Five youths (called “Danes” by the media) were arrested in the capital on Friday after 28 cars and 35 garbage trucks were burned. Cars and several schools have been vandalized or burned in the past week. Soft weather, schools closed, what else can the “Danes” do than burning or vandalizing schools? Anyway, they don’t need them.
I thought that their parents have left their archaic homes for Denmark to “give my children a better education”.
Several hundred Muslims (or “Danes”?) gathered in central Copenhagen on Friday to protest against re-publication of the cartoon.
MAGHREBIANS PLOT TO KILL 73 YEAR OLD
Monday, September 1, 2008
February 12, 2008
“In Denmark, we have freedom not only to think and talk, but also to draw.” Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
February 12, 2008- The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) announced several arrests of Muslims planning the murder of Kurt Westergaard. A Moroccan, protected from being deported by his Danish citizenship, and two Tunisians were arrested in Denmark over a plot to murder one of the 12 cartoonists whose drawings of Mohammad caused worldwide turmoil in 2006.
The Moroccan (40) is expected to be released pending further investigation, while the Tunisians will remain detained. Deportation proceedings are brought against them. According to Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that originally published the cartoons in September 2005, the suspects are accused of planning to kill 73-year-old Kurt Westergaard.
He is the one who drew the cartoon that caused the most controversy, depicting the founder of Islam with a bomb in his turban (the cartoon is republished on the newspaper’s website). The cartoons were later reprinted by more than 50 newspapers, triggering a wave of bloody protests in parts of the Muslim world.
Kurt Westergaard says on Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten: “Of course I fear for my life after the Danish Security and Intelligence Service informed me of the concrete plans of certain people to kill me. However, I have turned fear into anger and indignation. It has made me angry that a perfectly normal everyday activity which I used to do by the thousand was abused to set off such madness. I have attended to my work and I still do. I could not possibly know for how long I have to live under police protection; I think, however, that the impact of the insane response to my cartoon will last for the rest of my life. It is sad indeed, but it has become a fact of my life. “
Image: Wikipedia
The Prophet Mohammad, 17th century Ottoman copy of an early 14th century (Ilkhanate period) manuscript of Northwestern Iran or northern Iraq (the "Edinburgh codex"). Illustration of Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī's al-Âthâr al-bâqiyah ( الآثار الباقيةة ; "The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries")
