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scrapdaddy -> RE: Draw Mohammed Day is near (5/22/2010 6:53:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SL4V3M4YB3
My point is people seem to like worrying about events that are unlikely to occur, more people get killed by zombie housewives.
Where is all the social commentary about that? It's a non issue you could list a thousand other easier and more likely ways to die (say attending a wedding or other large gathering in the middle-east). People like to create monsters to loathe and fear don't they?
First, I'm not aware of a single death due to zombie housewives, which puts cartoonists in a higher risk bracket, n'est-ce pas?
Second to that, people will always comment on whatever is interesting for them to comment on, that makes that commentary neither more nor less valid.
Each to their own, I always say.
Don't minimize the seriousness of these threats though. In January this year, police shot a man attempting to kill one of the Danish cartoonists:
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From Wikipedia:
January 2010 Westergaard incident
On 1 January 2010, Danish police shot and wounded a man at the home of Kurt Westergaard in Aarhus. Westergaard drew the best known of the cartoons, which depicted the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. The man was described as a 28-year-old Somali linked to the radical Islamist al-Shabab militia. He reportedly shouted in broken English that he wanted to kill Westergaard, who alerted police after locking himself into a panic room in the house, which was a specially fortified bathroom.[108][109] Police said that the man was "armed with an axe and a knife in either hand", and broke down the entrance door of the house with the axe. The man attempted unsuccessfully to break down the door of the panic room while shouting swear words. He was shot in his right leg and left hand after reportedly throwing the axe at a police officer who arrived at the scene.[110] Westergaard's five-year-old granddaughter was present in the living room of the house during the incident, but neither Westergaard nor his grandchild were harmed. Bomb disposal experts searched the home in order to ensure that a device had not been planted.[111] The Somali man was carried into court on a stretcher to face two charges of attempted murder, which he denied. He was not named as the result of an injunction in the Danish courts. A spokesman for al-Shabab, Sheikh Ali Muhamud Rage, commented: "We appreciate the incident in which a Muslim Somali boy attacked the devil who abused our prophet Mohammed and we call upon all Muslims around the world to target the people like him."[112]
On the other hand, I've never heard of a zombie housewife so much as knocking on a door, much less arming herself with an axe and knife and attempting to break into the panic room.
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