The attack on illustrator Kurt Westergaard wasn’t the first attempt to carry out a deadly fatwa. When Muslims tried to murder Salman Rushdie 20 years ago, the protests among intellectuals were loud. Today, though, Western writers and thinkers would rather take cover than defend basic rights.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,669888,00.html

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If we allow Muslims to impose their totalitarian rules in democratic countries, we have become cowards who don’t deserve to enjoy the hard-won freedoms we take for granted. http://www.blacksunjournal.com/religion/2648_media-cowards-to-blame-for-attack-on-westergaard_2010.html

Kurt isn’t safe. Nor will he be, nor any of us be, “safe” until Islamic law is stopped in the West, its deeply advanced tentacles eradicated. Because don’t think it isn’t here. Sharia is here and in force. http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2010/01/diana-west-kurt-westergaard-cannot-stop-sharia-alone/