On June 2, 2008, an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.
At least 8 people were killed.
(REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood)
Al-Qaeda blamed their cold-blooded murder on the Danish Motoons that were first published in 2005.
David Thompson reports today on the Islamic worlds recent threats against free speech including this…
The Pakistani Ambassador to Denmark warned the Danes that there will be more attacks until the government bows to the Islamist’s demands.
The Copenhagen Post reported:
Danes need look no further than their own newspapers to find the reason for the car bombing that severely damaged their embassy in Pakistan on Monday, according to Rohan Gunaranta, an international terrorism expert from Pakistan.
‘There is still a lot of dissatisfaction here about the cartoons, as well as the fact that the Danish government still has not condemned them or the people that were responsible for them. As long as that hasn’t happened, Denmark will be under the constant threat of militant muslims,’ Gunaranta said.
Fauzia Mufti Abbas, Pakistan’s ambassador to Denmark, agreed that the Mohammed cartoons, first published in Jyllands-Posten newspaper in October 2005, had incited Muslim anger and were possibly the motivation for the attack, which killed eight and wounded as many as 30.
‘It isn’t just the people of Pakistan that feel they have been harassed by what your newspaper has begun,’ she said. ‘I’d like to know if your newspaper is satisfied with what it has done and what it has unleashed?’
Pakistan announced this weekend that officials will warn the EU to amend their speech laws or face more attacks.
