{"id":1256,"date":"2015-02-14T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2015-02-14T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:14:58","slug":"islam-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/02\/islam-copenhagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic terrorist attack in Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/02\/14\/islam-copenhagen\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/57365941f5f14d41f8244156f4c4fb16\/tumblr_njrwfjdUfy1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-31472423\"><em>BBC<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Gunmen killed one person and injured three police officers during a free speech debate in Copenhagen attended by a controversial Swedish cartoonist, officials said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The French ambassador was also present at the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say up to 40 shots were fired during the attack and a manhunt has been launched.<\/p>\n<p>Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks has faced death threats after drawing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>He was not harmed during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the shooting, a message appeared on the Twitter feed of French ambassador Francois Zimeray saying he was still alive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are the <a href=\"http:\/\/daosorios.tumblr.com\/post\/110998126180\">Vilks&#8217; pictures<\/a>, which I won&#8217;t be bullied, threatened or harassed not to show:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/35fdbacb7a224db0152b27911fd59dc3\/tumblr_njrv5kObQy1qcnn8do1_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/36.media.tumblr.com\/b4164daf235df96e934d64556eab8702\/tumblr_njrv5kObQy1qcnn8do2_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"281\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/41.media.tumblr.com\/d961606ca66b4fb8dc9240016eeb33a0\/tumblr_njrv5kObQy1qcnn8do3_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"235\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>It won&#8217;t take long for some people to start making excuses like the &#8220;this had <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/01\/15\/nothing-to-do-with-islam\/\">nothing to do with Islam<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; cop-out?<\/p>\n<p>And terrorism apologists \u2014such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6xDnxv6eFNg\">the Pope<\/a>\u2014 will tell us how Lars Vilks had it coming.<\/p>\n<p>(Image: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lakes,_Copenhagen\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC reports:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,196,9,287],"tags":[45,110],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-philosophy","category-secularism","category-skepticism","tag-free-speech","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}