Happy Draw Mohammed Day!

[muriel_volestrangler]

45. Very peaceful - discounting the riots which killed people, the axe attack, and the firebomb

And the ongoing trial for a planned attack on the newspaper:

Weapons expert Per Stougaard said that he never seen any thing quite like it in 25 years of police work. The bullets jammed, the magazine fell out and although the weapon was technically a machine gun, it was nearly impossible to get it to fire more than one round at a time.

“It can shoot, but it is not a good weapon,” said Stougaard.

That gun, along with another pistol and several hundred rounds of ammunition, was found in a backpack hidden in a rented Toyota Avensis that three of the suspects were driving when they were apprehended outside of Copenhagen in late December, 2010. The fourth suspect was rounded up at an apartment he had rented in Herlev.
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A female Säpo agent said that she had directed an operation code-named 'Aqua' that gathered evidence that the four suspects were plotting to storm Jyllands-Posten's Copenhagen office with assault weapons. Evidence in the trial indicated that the 2010 Årets Fund, a high-profile sports awards ceremony that is held in the building, was the suspect’s likely target.

http://cphpost.dk/news/national/prosecution-rests-case-terror-trial

Or the Indian state cabinet minister who offered a 10 million dollar bounty for the beheading of a cartoonist.

At least five people have been killed in Afghanistan as protests against European cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad swept across the country.

Two people died when protesters turned on the US airbase at Bagram - although the US has had no involvement with the images, which originated in Denmark.

Meanwhile in Somalia, a teenage boy died after protesters attacked police.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4684652.stm

In September 2005, the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was asked by his newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, to draw the prophet Muhammad "as you see him". He did, and it changed his life. The resulting cartoon was deemed blasphemous by hardline Muslims around the world and drew death threats. More than four years later, after Westergaard had already been forced to spend a harrowing few months on the run with his wife Gitte, a 28-year-old man of Somali origin forced his way into their home last Friday evening wielding an axe and a knife.

At the time, Westergaard was looking after his five-year-old granddaughter, Stephanie. He was confronted with a terrible choice: risk being killed in front of his granddaughter, or trust that the PET, Denmark's security and intelligence service, knew what they were talking about when they had told him terrorists usually don't harm family members but stick to their target.

Westergaard chose to escape into his bathroom, which had been specially fortified as a "panic room", while Stephanie was left sitting in the living room. From the bathroom he alerted the police as his assailant reportedly battered the reinforced door with the axe, shouting, "We will get our revenge!"

"Those minutes were horrible," Westergaard recalled yesterday. "But I think I have got through this fairly well – and so, it seems, did my grandchild. That, of course, is the main thing. I would not have been able to live with myself if something had happened to her."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/04/danish-cartoonist-axe-attack

The offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris have been destroyed in a petrol bomb attack.

It comes a day after the publication named the Prophet Muhammad as its "editor-in-chief" for its next issue.

The cover of the magazine carried a caricature of the Prophet making a facetious comment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15550350

Oh yes, remarkably peaceful, wouldn't you say?