![]() ![]() Wilders still lives in safe houses and must wear a bulletproof vest during televised debates. Geert Wilders is alive only because he is protected by a military unit of the Dutch army generally assigned to ensure the security of the embassy in Afghanistan. Nothing is known about her after the FBI put her in the witness protection program. Molly Norris, a Seattle Post cartoonist, became a “ghost”. Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist of the most famous of the Danish cartoons, passed away in his “bunker house” where Islamists had tried to assassinate him. “The drama and the tragedy is that the only ones to win are the jihadists,” Rose told the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen. Flemming Rose, the editor of the Jyllands Posten who commissioned the cartoons (the Taliban put a bounty on his head), resigned and published a book with the eloquent title The Tyranny of Silence. He should never have been in this situation, and if other artists and others across Europe hadn’t been so cowardly then he never would have been”.Ĭarsten Juste, who as editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten published the cartoons on Muhammad in 2005, apologized and left journalism. “Lars Vilks was a man and artist of enormous courage. The Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks died with his police guards in a terrible car accident. A bullet a day keeps the infidel away…” What happened to the faces and names on that list? They have been killed, left the public arena to protect themselves, or died under police protection. Islamic extremists in 2012 published a terrifying “most wanted list”, like those of the FBI. “o speak only of France, the police will soon no longer be enough, it will be necessary to recruit battalions or form a new body of bodyguards, who know Islam and can recognize under which dress it is presented.” In the words of the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal writing for L’Express this week: Many of the slogans, paraphrases on “free speech” and demonstrations of solidarity to the author of The Satanic Verses hide a terrible and different reality: the fatwa is gaining ground, and more and more people have to live under protection due to criticism of Islam. That is how Ayaan Hirsi Ali reacted to the attempt to assassinate Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York. His attacker used a knife to stab a letter into Theo’s chest: it said that I would be next”. My friend, the sweet, vulgar, brilliant Theo Van Gogh was murdered simply for making a film with me. After I came out as an apostate, I was forced into a bubble of protection that still surrounds me to this day. If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end… I know all too well the threat Islamism poses. “Salman Rushdie is a champion of free speech, bravely standing up for Western ideals when so many shy away from the fight. Is it now a little bit clearer that radical Islam is today one of the biggest threats to Western culture and that we are not winning but instead becoming like turkeys celebrating Thanksgiving? All decent people should stand with Salman Rushdie and against his persecutors.What was he guilty of? Having shown in class some of the Mohammed cartoons during a lesson on freedom of expression. They wanted to kill a teacher whose name we do not even know and who was forced to leave school after heavy death threats. “Give us his head,” the Islamists shouted outside a British school in Batley.“Anyone who criticizes Islamism must expect to be violently attacked in this country and without anyone being offended.” - Jan Aleksander Karon, journalist,, August 20, 2022.They live according to a strict security device: they have to tell the police in advance what they will do during the day, who they will see and where they will go and, if anyplace is not considered safe, these victims are forced to change plans. They live among us, in Paris, London, Oslo, Copenhagen, Berlin, Amsterdam and all the other European capitals. We do not even know they exist: our fearful conformist press never tells their amazing stories.” What happened to the faces and names on that list? They have been killed, they left the public arena to protect themselves or died under police protection. Islamic extremists in 2012 published a terrifying “most wanted list”, like those of the FBI.terrible and different reality: the fatwa is gaining ground….If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end.” –Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Unherd, August 7, 2022. ![]()
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