Geert Wilders on Trial, Lars Hedegaard Opines

Danish Free Speech Group Sells Copies of Controversial Prophet Muhammad Cartoon

COPENHAGEN - A Danish press freedom group said Wednesday it is selling copies of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad that caused outrage across the Muslim World.

Some 1,000 printed reproductions of a drawing depicting the prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban are being sold for $250 each, said Lars Hedegaard, chairman of the Danish Free Press Society.

"All we are doing is starting a debate," Hedegaard said. "We are using our freedom of speech."

Hedegaard said Danish artist Kurt Westergaard, who drew the cartoon in 2005, had given the society permission to produce the copies and sell them. Each numbered copy has been signed by Westergaard, Hedegaard said.

"We have not, and are not, breaking any laws," Hedegaard told The Associated Press.

Westergaard has been living under police protection since an alleged plot to murder him was discovered last year.

Twelve cartoons depicting the prophet, including the one by Westergaard, were published in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005. Read more ...

Source: AP

Interview with Lars Hedegaard, the President of the International Free Press Society

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Lars Hedegaard
International Free Press Society
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Which Speech is Free Speech?
	I am a Muslim
	Inoffensive speech
	Speech offensive for reasons other than listed below
	Defaming one's family & all of the above
	Defaming religion, mocking prophets & all of the above
	Inciting violence & all of the above
	Conspiring to commit violence & all of the above
	I am not a Muslim
	Inoffensive speech
	Speech offensive for reasons other than listed below
	Defaming one's family & all of the above
	Defaming religion, mocking prophets & all of the above
	Inciting violence & all of the above
	Conspiring to commit violence & all of the above

Once Again It’s the Economy, Stupid

The Left is only too happy to suppress free speech. It doesn’t know what it’s getting itself into

By Lars Hedegaard

One thing in particular struck me last week when I was in London for the showing of Geert Wilders’ Fitna in the House of Lords. Well, apart from the fact that Mr. Wilders was banned from entering the country.

It was the press’ uniform designation of the Dutch politician as “right-wing” or even “extreme right-wing”.

What precisely has Geert Wilders done or said that makes him deserving of this epithet? For make no mistake: whereas “left-wing” is considered an accolade and smacks of loving kindness towards green forests, stray dogs in need of a warm place to sleep and undernourished children in Africa, “right-wing” denotes a misanthrope who hates all good people and will eat innocent babies for breakfast. Read more ...

Source: The International Free Press Society

Which Speech is Free Speech?
	I am a Muslim
	Inoffensive speech
	Speech offensive for reasons other than listed below
	Defaming one's family & all of the above
	Defaming religion, mocking prophets & all of the above
	Inciting violence & all of the above
	Conspiring to commit violence & all of the above
	I am not a Muslim
	Inoffensive speech
	Speech offensive for reasons other than listed below
	Defaming one's family & all of the above
	Defaming religion, mocking prophets & all of the above
	Inciting violence & all of the above
	Conspiring to commit violence & all of the above

New Danish Book Draws Jihadist Ire

It is an equation becoming all too familiar. A new book released in Europe contains essays critical of Islam and illustrations of the Prophet Mohammed. In response, some are calling for blood.

Danish journalist Lars Hedegaard's book Groft Sagt (Rough Talk), was released in Denmark Monday. It is a collection of about 100 of his favorite newspaper columns from a Copenhagen daily. Many of the columns are critical of Islam. In addition, the book features 26 new illustrations from Kurt Westergaard, whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammed in the newspaper Jyllands Posten in 2005 sparked a wave of violent protests. Read more ...

Source: IPT News

Danish Cartoon Death Threats for Hedegaard and Westergaard

Lars Hedegaard, President of the Free Press Society and free speech champion and Kurt Westergaard, cartoonist and free speech icon, are under renewed threat of death from pious Muslims and adherents to the religion of pieces. I know, they kill people, it's what they do.

Learn these men's names, ladies and gentlemen. Commit them to memory. They fight for you. Their lives are in danger because they speak freely. If they and/or their cause go down,you are next. What will you be harassed, fined, arrested (or worse) for? What is in your mind, your words, your deed that is unacceptable to the Islamic overlords and multicultural brownshirts?

Free speech is the line in the sand in this war. It is not ambiguous. This is not a gray area. Nuance? Not. Free speech is the end game. If we lose freedom of speech, all is lost.

It is not lost on me that the brave warriors on the fight for the West should emerge from the only country in Europe that saved its Jews during the last holocaust. How fitting and predictable.

The Institute for Counter-Terrorism has uncovered two websites known for their affiliation with al-Qaeda - al-Hesbah (the Front) and al-Hanein - are baying for Danish blood as a reaction to the just released book by Lars Hedegaard and Kurt Westergaard (of Danish cartoon fame). Read more ...

Source: Atlas