1. Attempt on cartoonists life:

http://www.newser.com/story/18846.html

Bust in Terror Plot to Kill Danish Cartoonist  

Posted Feb 12, 08 7:29 AM CST in World    Most Covered

(newser) – Danish police this morning arrested several people suspected
of plotting to assassinate a cartoonist who had offended Muslims with a
cartoon insulting the prophet Mohammed.

Danish papers reprint Muhammad cartoons in response to alleged assassination attempt

By Ezra Winton, February 13, 2008 Comments (0)

Denmark has not been in the news as of late, so perhaps in a bid to stir up some more
interest in the northern European country, major newspapers are, as of
early this morning, reprinting the infamous Muhammad cartoons - or if you
take their word for it, they are responding to an alleged attempted
assassination plot against the original artist, Westergaard. From CBS News
this morning:

    The Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which first published the 12 drawings on
    Sept. 30, 2005, reprinted Westergaard's cartoon in its print edition
    Wednesday. Several other major dailies, including Politiken and
    Berlingske Tidende, also reprinted the drawing.

   "We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to
   unambiguously back and *support the freedom of speech* that we as a
   newspaper will always defend," said the Copenhagen-based Berlingske
   Tidende.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4361260.stm

Muslim anger at Danish cartoons
Protest over cartoons in Copenhagen
The cartoons have prompted protests in Copenhagen
The ambassadors of 10 Muslim countries have complained to the Danish
prime minister about a major newspaper's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

A letter from the ambassadors said the cartoons published in Jyllands-Posten
last month showed the Prophet as a stereotypical fundamentalist.

Pictorial depictions of the Prophet Muhammad are forbidden in Islam.

Interesting, eh? Read carefully: "Pictorial depictions of the Prophet
Muhammad are forbidden in Islam."

They weren't printed in Islam. They were printed in Denmark, as an
expression of Free Speech. Guess Islam has a real problem with Free
Speech: The BBC reported an Islamic spokesman as saying, "We see thet
Denmark has not learned it's lesson".

'Scuse me? "Learned it's lesson"? Who the frig do they think they are?
They can tell their own people what to think and what to say, but now they
are espousing thier laws and religion on the rest of the world.

Free Speech, eh? Not in the Islamic world. Or the rest of the world, if
they have their way...