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| Danish Islamophobia Kills Muslim Teen |
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| Thursday, 27 March 2008 | |
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Uzun, a 17-year-old Turk attending a technical high school, was distributing newspapers in the Amager district of Copenhagen Wednesday when he was verbally harassed by three Danes, aged 15, 17 and 18. "They tried to provoke him with racist slur," said Abdel-Hamid Hamdi, head of the Shura Council of the Islamic Council in Denmark. "He ignored them and went his way before they stopped their car and started assaulting him." A friend of Uzun, identified by the media as Mohammed, said the three attacked Uzun with a baseball bat and a hammer, leaving him unconscious. The Muslim teen was put on life support at a hospital in Copenhagen with "severe brain damage" before he was pronounced dead the next day. The three attackers were captured shortly after the attack and are still in custody. "These three racist Danes were being sought even before attacking my son," Ali, the father, told local media. "How could this happen?" The Copenhagen Police Department confirmed that one the attackers had been captured with a gun six days before the attack and that the three are known to have criminal records. Cartoon Effect Alfara, the Muslim community leader, believes the racist attack is directly linked to an Islamophobic atmosphere in the Scandinavian country fanned by the recent reprinting of the prophet cartoon. "Was it necessary to have someone killed for people to realize that racism is on the rise in Denmark following the cartoon crisis." Denmark's main dailies reprinted on Wednesday, February 13, a drawing of a man described as the prophet with a ticking bomb in his turban. The move has reignited a controversy that first surfaced in 2005 after the mass-circulation Jyllands-Posten commissioned and printed 12 cartoons of the prophet, sending thousands of protesting Muslims into the streets across the world. For some Muslims the incident unmasked double-standards in dealing with the country's nearly 200,000-strong minority. "Where are those politicians who always jump on the bandwagon whenever Arabs or Muslims are involved in any similar incident," asked Hamdi. "Why have not we heard from Justice Minister Lene Espersen who champions more restrictions on Muslims, imams and minority leaders? "Where is the leader of the right-wing Danish People's Party Pia Kjaersgaard to explain why three blonde-haired Danish teens committed this racist crime?" Source: IslamOnline           Readers have left 13 comments.
David Hassid:
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While nothing justifies this killing Islam should consider stopping it's attempt to impose Islam on the world to lessen Islamphobia. The desire to impose Islam on the world by any means is the root cause of rhe problem of Islamophobia.If Islam realize the reality and deals with this root cause then the problem will be solved.
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2008-03-27 04:22:58
K. Urban:
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Denmark has gone from a pinnacle of humanity to a beacon of brutality, and this now portrays their intolerance not ours.
Our deepest sympathy to the family of this fine teenager.
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2008-03-27 07:07:40
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what evidence is there that the cartoons caused this?? obviously the killers were criminals as they were being sought by police before said incident..could it be an opportunistic attack by these thugs..islamophobia didnt happen in a vacuum..a guy draws a picture and people riot and kill because they dont agree with it.(i personally dont think the cartoons should have been shown again as freedom of speech comes with responsibility).if god is so powerful how does he need us mere mortals to fight in his corner..this is just my opinion
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2008-03-27 11:38:44
rose:
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The murder of this young man is, of course, appalling and inexcusable but one should not judge the entire Danish nation for one act of gratuitous brutality by young thugs.
Denmark has one of the highest living standards in the world and has afforded immigrants the same benefits as that enjoyed by the indigenous population - excellent housing, welfare and education, with the expectation that they would integrate into society. However, as seen in other countries, many Muslims prefer to distance themselves from Western culture and have created 'enclaves'. The behaviour of some Muslim youths in Denmark has been problematic and unacceptable; only recently, using the reprinting of the cartoons as justification, young Muslim men rampaged through Danish villages and cities, setting fire to cars, a school and a library. And now Denmark is now being accused of being 'racist' and 'islamaphobic'; no doubt due to their dislike of violence and religious intolerance. Perhaps your reprinting of this article would have been more principled had it not been used to vilify a nation.
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2008-03-27 13:03:18
William:
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Any anti-Muslim feeling in Denmark is because of the hysterical, lethal violence which was deliberately fostered by Islamists over the previously published and un-remarked cartoons. Of course a backlash is exactly what fanatical Islamists most want, since they can then extend their demands for concessions and "rights". The restraint shown by ordinary Europeans in the face of actual and threatened violence from Muslim fanatics is quite amazing. It may not be unlimited.
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2008-03-27 17:25:38
Colin:
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MPAC readers
I advise you to click on the original and read it along with the attached comments. Of course, I hope the thugs - whether Muslim or non-Muslim - will all be caught and preferably hung. I also hope that Danish and English freethinkers will continue to make fun of religious leaders, especially religious leaders who issue calls for the death of people who make fun of them.
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2008-03-27 19:57:04
Colin:
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William
Re your comment about patience, I have just watched the Geert Wilder film on Kuffarophobia. It's amazing and incomprehensible how long-suffering Danish and in general European Kuffars are.
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2008-03-28 11:32:49
Waheed Azeez:
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"Islam should consider stopping it's attempt to impose Islam on the world to lessen Islamphobia." (David above) In which way have Muslims tried to impose their faith on the world; through the Crusade, holocaust, colonialism, slave trade, invasion of other sovereign countries on false premises or killing of defenseless civilians? Search your mind properly before you comment.
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2008-03-29 13:02:10
David Hassid:
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Wahhed,
Did not Islam invade Europe and was pushed back in Austria in the 15th or 16th century?
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2008-03-29 23:57:06
Veritas:
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Waheed
With all due respect perhaps you should aquaint yourself with some historical facts and think about things before posting comments and playing the eternal innocent victim card and pointing an accusing finger at others. The Crusades. These were a direct reponse to the event of 10 October 1009 when Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (look him up) declared Jihad and raized the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the ground, many Christians were also murdered. Holocaust. I’m surprised you acknowledge this as many Muslims seem to entertain the notion that it is some Zionist lie, something that a lot of non Muslims in the West find repugnant. In addition if you are trying to imply that the Nazis were Christian, they were not. Their areligious faith and creed was Naziism and if they had won WW2 they intended to abolish and target Christianity. They cared so much about Christians that for example they murdered 3 million Polish Chrisitians which included 1/3 of all Polish Catholic Priests. Colonialism and invasion of sovereign countries. Tell me what the Muslims Turks were doing outside Vienna in the 1600’s when their armies were utterly defeated ? Tell me what were the Turks doing when they seized Constantinople, long the centre of Eastern Orthodox Christianity ? What of the Mughals invasion of India ? I could go on and on with many examples. Slave trade. Arab Muslims were slave trading with the complicity of African Muslims long before the North Atlantic Slave trade commenced. Perhaps you can answer this question, and think before you answer. In the West Muslims are free to practice their religion freely, they are allowed to build mosques that display the crescent symbol on the minarets and domes. They are also free to seek converts to their religion. These converts are then not intimidated or threatened with death for doing so. Perhaps you can now tell me what the experience of Christians is in Muslim, especially Middle Eastern, countries. Are they at liberty to openly practice their religion ? Are they at liberty to build churches displaying the crucifix ? Are they at liberty to seek converts to Christianity ? What happens to Muslims who convert to Christianity, how are they treated ?
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2008-03-31 00:03:51
Michael Jew:
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Eye for Eye, tooth for tooth, as the bible says !! Why did the West enable the Romans to impose christanity on them ?
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2008-03-31 01:51:12
Andy:
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RE- "Denmark has gone from a pinnacle of humanity to a beacon of brutality" ~ K. Urban
Let's see. Before this event,you say it was a pinnacle of Humanity. Obviously something has come to Denmark,which has changed people. Ask yourself what that is,and there is your answer. If you claim these things didn't happen before (by implying Denmark was a pinnacle of humanity), then obviously something has caused a change. Again, ask yourself what that could be.
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2008-04-04 22:48:47
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COPENHAGEN — Danish Muslims link the racist murder of a Muslim teen last week to an increasing Islamophobic atmosphere fanned by the reprinting of a cartoon satirical of prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). 