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  • Holland: SWAT team arrests cartoonist

    05/16/2008 12:13:25 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 16 replies · 907+ views
    Richard Dawkins.net ^ | May 16 2008 | Koreman
    Dutch cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot was arrested when his house was raided by ten police men. He spent a night in a police cell and was then released. It is unclear if Nekschot is to be prosecuted. The raid apparently happened because of complaints by fundamentalist imam van de Ven, a Dutch Islam convert who once said that he'd like to see critics of Islam like Geert Wilders to be dead. Nekschot is a controversial cartoonist who criticizes multi cultural society and religions. Although his work is not exactly an example of fine taste sometimes his arrest raised protests. The raid...