By Charles Hawley
A right-wing Danish political party has been threatened by the Palestinian terror group al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade for using an image of the Prophet Muhammad in its campaign literature. The party wanted to show its commitment to free speech.
A member of the al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade at a January protest in the West Bank.
Just three days ago, Danish Prime Minster Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview that he thinks people have forgotten about the Muhammad cartoon crisis over a year and a half ago. But with elections in Denmark looming next Tuesday, a right-wing party decided to use an ad campaign to remind voters. By doing so, it touched off a bizarre international tiff pitting nationalist extremists against Islamist extremists.
Source:
SpiegelH/T: Atlas
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