Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Swedish cartoonist receives fresh death threats
Here we go again , Muslim outrage over a cartoon !
Well not like it ever really stopped , it just keeps going and going .
With the Indictment of Fatima LaRosse Aka Fatty /goatface ,and seven other Muslims that want to kill Lars Vilks , things have been stirred up again .
So in support of Lars and free speech everywhere , Some cartoons !
My Favorite,
(Reuters) - The Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Mohammad has made him the target of Muslim anger said on Wednesday he had received more death threats since arrests were made this week over an alleged plot to kill him.
Lars Vilks, whose sketch had shown the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog, told Reuters the death threats had been made in Internet messages following the arrests by police in Ireland of seven people in connection with the alleged murder plot.
He said he had received a large number of threats since 2007, when his sketch was first published, but new ones were sent to him on Tuesday.
"They wanted to shoot me in the head with a shotgun," Vilks said, referring to one of the latest messages. "The other one was also about killing me."
Irish police said on Tuesday they had detained four men and three women in southern Ireland as part of an investigation into a murder conspiracy. A security source said the investigation was into a plot to murder Vilks.
In 2007, an Iraqi group linked to al Qaeda offered a $100,000 reward for Vilks' killing.
The 63-year-old, who continues to live at his home in southern Sweden and has no bodyguards, said he had no regrets about drawing the cartoons.
"If you mean to be a serious artist ... this will be the outcome sometimes -- that you will bump into borders with unseen consequences," he said.
Vilks said he had no political motive.
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