Common Folk Using Common Sense

From Breitbart:

Danish authorities on Tuesday arrested three people suspected of plotting a cartoonist’s assassination for his depiction of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban that enraged Muslims two years ago.

Three of Denmark’s largest newspapers said they would reprint the cartoon on Wednesday to show they would not be intimidated by fanatics. It was one of 12 Muhammad cartoons published in 2005 and then again in 2006 that led to protests in Muslim countries.

Investigators said they foiled the plot in its early stages in a pre- dawn raid in the western Denmark city of Aarhus. The police intelligence agency, PET, said two Tunisians and a Danish citizen of Moroccan origin were arrested.

“The case shows that, unfortunately, there are in Denmark groups of extremists that do not accept and respect the basic principles on which the Danish democracy has been built,” Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.

Tuesday’s arrests were meant “to prevent a terror-related assassination of one of the cartoonists behind the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad,” PET chief Jakob Scharf said. Investigators believe the plot had not advanced far enough to try the suspects.

More antics from that wacky Religion of Peace™.

From Michelle Malkin:

Two years ago, the Mohammed cartoon conflagration consumed the world and the blogosphere helped lead the way in fighting back. Longtime readers will remember that this site hammered the issue in support of Denmark. “Sammenhold,” you may recall, is the Danish word for solidarity. With the arrests this week of five jihadists accused of plotting to murder one of the Danish cartoonists, it’s time to demonstrate sammenhold again.

As a show of solidarity and a reminder of how cowardly American media outlets refused to stand up when it counted, take a minute to reprint your favorite Mo cartoon or link back to the blogging you did on the cartoon rage two years ago.

Here’s the Mohammed Cartoon blogburst from Feb. 3, 2006. At least 192 blogs participated, including:

Yep, this humble blog was part of the festivities, posting all 12 of the cartoons. What a fun day it was.

Says Ed Morrissey:

Perhaps bloggers can take up some of the slack, and provide some leadership for our media outlets here in the US. At the very least, we can do so to salute the courage of the Danes on the front lines for free speech. It’s easy to defend free speech when it doesn’t cost anyone anything. The Danes have manned the barricades when it counts.

Unfortunately, American newspapers and media outlets do not appear interested in expressing the same solidarity. CNN doesn’t include the image in its report, and so far, I haven’t seen any newspaper cover it yet, although they may tomorrow. Only the New York Times gave any coverage to the arrests in today’s editions.

In solidarity with the Danish newspapers, here’s the cartoon that has assassins targeting Westergaard:

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