"It's the only way to be sure."
Posted on 05/15/2010 7:22:03 AM PDT by marthemaria
STOCKHOLM—The home of a Swedish artist who once drew a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad as a dog has been hit by a suspected arson attack, police said Saturday.
Lars Vilks, who lives in Nyhamnslage in southern Sweden, was not at home during the attack late Friday night and no one was reported injured.
It was the latest in a week of attacks on the 53-year-old cartoonist, who was assaulted Tuesday by a man while he lectured at a university and saw his Web site apparently attacked by hacker on Wednesday.
Police were alerted just before noon Saturday, as people passing by the artist's house noted that several windows had been smashed. When officers arrived, they discovered plastic bottles filled with gasoline and fire damage on the surface of the building. Attackers are also suspected of having tried setting the inside of house on fire, but the flames are thought to have fizzled out.
Police have no suspects in the case, police Spokeswoman Sofie Osterheim said.
Vilks, who often jokes about the threats he has received since his 2007 sketch of Muhammad, including from al-Qaida, said the latest attack doesn't raise his fears more than usual.
"I'm not really more afraid than what I think is realistic," he told the Associated Press over the telephone.
Vilks has faced numerous threats over his drawing. Earlier this year, U.S. investigators said Vilks was the target of an alleged murder plot involving Colleen LaRose, an American woman
who dubbed herself "Jihad Jane," and who now faces life in prison. She has pleaded not guilty.
Vilks depicted Muhammad more than a year after 12 Danish newspaper cartoons of the prophet sparked furious protests in Muslim countries in 2006. Images of Muhammad, even favorable ones, are considered blasphemous by many Muslims.
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The behavior the muzzies are exhibiting here is EXACTLY why Muslim immigration to any Western nation should be very tightly restricted.
I’m far beyond the point of caring if it’s “racist” or not (despite the fact that Islam is not a race) - it’s about survival of the modern, non-pedophile-endorsing, non-blowing-sh*t-up Western World.
but according to Mr. “Can’t answer yes or no” Holder Radical Islam doesn’t exist nor influence people’s decisions. These people are simply angry at the choice of ink he used. Nothing to see here.
This is insanity.
Nuke Mecca ... from Orbit ...
we are the next ones to experience a nuclear ignition, not the islamofascists.
/S
I would not let ANY Muslim into this country, and would throw the ones that are here, out. To let even one in is a severe risk.
I don't think there were too many Germans, Italians and Japanese allowed here from 1939-1945. I wonder why...
Listen up Hollywood: You always want to push the edge of thinking and social values, well make a film about this evil cult called Islam. It is no different than Jerry Jones getting everyone drinking the cool-aid.
Europe is done and we are next.
These people have stone-age sensitivities/stone-age mind; and just wish they would stay in a country that appreciates such and stop dragging them into Western 'mind'/time and place.
Of course, that is NOT the case; and instead, the world as we know it; is in peril.
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day is only 5 days away!
No suspects in the case, right.
Find the nearest moose limbs.
As well, the threat behind all this is politcal correctness which irrespective of any individual; but rather as a 'collective think' is destroying our country from within. It does, however - and as it is designed to do - make the job so much easier for those whose 'will to power' is at total odds with the Will and Good, of our Country.
When was the last time a Lutheran even threw Lutfisk at someone? :-)
Well, he does have a close neighbor. . .who keeps promising a visit.
The Swedes need to pack all of them up and say “OK, you need to go home now”. They need to get their country back.
where’s my pen and paper ?
How bad will it have to get before countries just start banning Islam?
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