Mohammed's Koran: Why Muslims Kill For Islam

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  1. In 2005 Imams from Denmark provoked a global crisis concerning
    cartoons of Mohammed which appeared in a newspaper (see
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-
    Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy for a summary of the events).
    Here are the events which led to the Motoons crisis, where Imams forged
    inflammatory cartoons, to provoke Muslims around the world into
    murder, including assassination attempts on prominent artists in the
    West.

    Among those affected by the chill on free speech was a Danish author
    who, when he tried to find somebody to draw pictures of Muhammed for
    a childrenʼs biography, got turned down by one illustrator after another,
    because they were too scared of possible Muslim reprisal. [... On
    September 30 2005] Rose [...] invited all forty-odd members of the
    Danish Cartoonistsʼ Association to submit drawings of the prophet
    Muhammed. Twelve sent in submissions [...] pretty palid stuff...

    Bruce Bawer, Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom,
    London, 2009, p.42.

    Following the Motoons crisis, and the repeated assassination attempts
    on various artists, Muslims succeeded in scaring prominent writers and
    artists more than with The Rushdie Affair. As we saw earlier, the
    publisher withdrew from his contract for Fregosiʼs 1998 book on Jihad.
    Rushdieʼs Satanic Verses never appeared in paperback, as an attempt to
    assuage the cultural terrorism of the Islamic world. In 2008 a novel on
    Mohammedʼs six-year old bride Aisha was withdrawn from publication
    by Random House, one of the worldʼs largest publishers, because they
    feared being slaughtered by devout followers of “the religion of peace”
    (“Novel on prophetʼs wife pulled for fear of backlash”, The Guardian, 9
    Aug 2008,
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/09/fiction.terrorism/).
    Interestingly, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 the American publicly-
    funded broadcaster PBS produced a documentary about Mohammed in
    2002 (http://www.pbs.org/muhammad/). The (otherwise highly
    deceptive) documentary contains many paintings in the background which

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