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| Danish Yoots riot for sixth night |
| 2008-02-16 |
| I thought this had been ongoing longer, in my comment on the cartoons protest. COPENHAGEN (Rooters) - Gangs of rioters set fire to cars and garbage trucks in northern Copenhagen on Friday, the sixth night of rioting and vandalism that has spread from the capital to other Danish cities, police said on Saturday. Five youths were arrested in the capital on Friday after 28 cars and 35 garbage trucks were burned, Copenhagen police duty officer Jakob Kristensen told Reuters. Several youths were arrested in other Danish towns. Scores of cars and several schools have been vandalized or burned in the past week. Police could give no reason, but said that unusually mild weather and the closure of schools for a winter break, making them easy targets, might have contributed. Social workers said the reprinting of a two-year-old cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad in Danish newspapers might have fuelled the riots. Police arrested two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan descent on Tuesday for planning to kill the cartoonist, and 15 Danish papers reprinted the drawing on Wednesday in protest against the alleged plot to murder him. Several hundred Muslims gathered in central Copenhagen on Friday to protest against publication of the cartoon. Most Muslims consider depictions of the founder of Islam offensive. The publication by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of Mohammad two years ago -- including the one reprinted this week -- led to protests and rioting in Muslim countries in which at least 50 people were killed and three Danish embassies attacked. In October police arrested more than 400 people in Copenhagen after demonstrators evicted from a youth centre earlier in the year tried to occupy a new building. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #11 Denmark needs to issue their police officers automatic rifles and an endless supply of ammunition. Then broadcast on all channels that anyone caught rioting, for any reason, will be immediately shot. Carry through, and the riots will end. Of course, Denmark will need a couple of F-16s on the alert apron with a full bomb load, for when the EUnunchs begins squawking. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-02-16 22:40 |
| #10 Er, why deliver them all the way to their country of origin? Let them swim the last ten miles. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2008-02-16 21:04 |
| #9 in Denmark, they could very well be ex-north africa trash |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-16 17:49 |
| #8 I have no idea why they are not checking their Danish equivalent of the Green Card, and putting them on the next flight to whatever ME country they came from. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2008-02-16 17:38 |
| #7 Golly Jakob why don't you round them up and send them home, or are they merely buring the cars and garbage trucks that native Danes are too prosperous and lazy to burn themselves? |
| Posted by: regular joe 2008-02-16 17:27 |
| #6 Abu, What will change their tune is wholsale deportation back to the Saudi sand dunes. |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2008-02-16 13:19 |
| #5 since they are into burning the garbage trucks, stop collecting the rubbish in their neighborhoods... let them have their own little slice of Gaza and see if maybe that changes their tune. |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2008-02-16 13:15 |
| #4 Anymouse, I think its time for a special Danish Nakbah |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2008-02-16 12:56 |
| #3 As I have said a hundred times...the muzzies are going to cross the line somewhere, somehow and it's going be a 21st century version of the "Nazis shipping the German Jews to Poland" all over again. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2008-02-16 12:40 |
| #2 agreed, but up teh consequences. Catch and release doesn't do it. Crack some skulls, then deport the entire family of anyone caught rioting |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-16 12:20 |
| #1 Reprint it every Saturday until they get it through their thick skulls. There is no law against it in Denmark, if you don't like it FOAD. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-02-16 12:06 |