Swedish newspapers reprint Prophet cartoon
 

Swedish newspapers reprint Prophet cartoon

2010-03-10 20:30:00

Several Swedish newspapers Wednesday reprinted a controversial caricature of the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, the day after an alleged plot to murder the cartoonist was disclosed.

Seven arrests were reported Tuesday in Ireland while one woman was charged in the US for conspiring to commit terrorism. The target of the alleged murder plot was Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who made the caricature in 2007.

Vilks has been threatened several times. A bounty of $100,000 was placed on his head in 2007 by an Iraq-based insurgency group after publication of the caricature.

Early this year, Vilks said he had received threatening phone calls from Somalia.

Those phone calls came roughly a week after a newspaper cartoonist in neighbouring Denmark survived an attack when a Somali-born man broke into his home.

Vilks appeared unruffled on learning of the arrests in Ireland and the US, telling the newspaper Dagens Nyheter he was 'not afraid, but you need a plan if something highly unlikely should happen'.

His plan included keeping an axe near the entrance to his home in southern Sweden and a secure room upstairs.

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Having lived in Switzerland for 6 months, I can tell you that the Swiss aren't into political correctness.. They come right through the front door with their thoughts and opinions.. They are a great people.

They express their thoughts and opinions juuuuuust short of fighting for them. :cool:

LOL! :D

Good on the Swedes for doing this, though.

StSinner seems to have the Swedes and the Swiss confused, but they do have the same outlook on neutrality.

Yes, my mind read Swiss.. Sorry.. Carry on..

You're right about the opinions, though. My husband and I were in a cafe at the opera in Stockholm in 2006. When the Swedish gentleman next to us heard our American accents, his opening line of conversation to us was, "When are you Americans going to DO something about your president?" in a very cold tone of voice.

I didn't want to get his hopes up about rifles and scopes, so I just smiled and said, "We have an election coming up in two years."

Your husband must be a wimp. I do not take kindly to someone insulting me, my country or my President so I would have told him to mind his own business. You voted for Bush twice. Correct.

My husband is nothing of the kind, and we were hardly going to start a bar fight over George W. Bush.

And I would not kowtow to some uncultured prick at an opera either or any other place. Intimidation works; people should try it now and then. BTW, if you do not think the jerk was putting down your country, you are a fool.