Denmark: Five Muslims Arrested In "Imminent" Attack On Mohammed Cartoons Newspaper, Intended To Shoot As Many People As Possible

From Jihad Watch:

Denmark: Five arrested in "imminent" jihad attack on Motoons paper intended to shoot as many people as possible


Priorities: Imagine if all of the time and energy poured into Muslim outrage and plots for violent revenge over a cartoon had been channeled into something productive. You might be driving, say, a small, sporty, efficient Afghan car. For that matter, you might be driving a small, sporty, efficient, flying Afghan car. An update on this story. "Denmark Arrests 5 Suspected of Planning Terror Attack," from the Associated Press, December 29:



COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Five men planning to shoot as many people as possible in a building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were arrested Wednesday in an operation that halted an imminent attack, intelligence officials said.

Denmark's intelligence service said it arrested four men in two raids in suburbs of the capital, Copenhagen, and seized an automatic weapon, a silencer and ammunition. Swedish police said they arrested a 37-year-old Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin living in Stockholm.

"An imminent terror attack has been foiled," said Jakob Scharf, head of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, or PET. He described some the suspects as "militant Islamists with relations to international terror networks" and said that more arrests were possible.

PET said it seized a 44-year-old Tunisian, a 29-year-old Lebanese-born man and a 30-year-old who were living in Sweden and had entered Denmark late Tuesday or early Wednesday. The fourth person detained was a 26-year-old Iraqi asylum-seeker living in Copenhagen.

Maybe Sweden could've taken him instead, having made a little room forcibly repatriating Iraqi Christians fleeing persecution.



The Danish intelligence service said the group had been planning to enter the building where the Jyllands-Posten daily has its Copenhagen newsdesk and had wanted "to kill as many of the people present as possible." The four men face preliminary charges of attempting to carry out an act of terrorism. They will face a custody hearing Thursday.

Zubair Butt Hussain, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Denmark, called the plan "extremely worrying."

The organization "absolutely condemns any act of terrorism regardless of the motives and motivations that may lie behind," Hussain said. [...]

There remains a problem of a collective lack of anger management rooted in Islamic supremacism and the Qur'an's own endorsement of violence to achieve it.



In early 2006, reaction to the drawings sparked violent protests in Muslim countries where demonstrators said the drawings had profoundly insulted Islam. Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favorable, for fear it could lead to idolatry.

Scharf said "there was no need to raise the terror threat alert level" in Denmark.

The men were arrested in Greve, south of Copenhagen, and Herlev, west of the Danish capital.

Danish Justice Minister Lars Barfoed described the plot as "terrifying."

"The group's plan to kill as many as possible is very frightening and is probably the most serious terror attempt in Denmark," he said....Posted by Marisol on December 29, 2010 8:20 AM