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Here is the news of the latest attempt to murder a cartoonist for drawing Mohammed:

DUBLIN - Police in Ireland on Tuesday arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.

Irish police said four men and three women were detained in raids across the south of the country. The force says the arrests were part of an investigation into a "conspiracy to murder an individual in another jurisdiction."

Police said the suspects were aged from their mid-20s to their late 40s. It did not identify their nationality.

The investigation involved law enforcement agencies in the US and several European countries.

Al-Qaida in Iraq put a $100,000 bounty on Vilks' head after a Swedish newspaper ran his picture of Muhammad's head on a dog's body in 2007. He was put under police protection and moved to a secret location in Sweden.

Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favorable, for fear it could lead to idolatry.

Vilks is not the first cartoonist to have received death threats for drawings of the prophet.

Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist who in 2005 depicted Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, also received death threats. In January, a Somali man was arrested after breaking into his home in western Denmark armed with an ax.

One of those arrested was a woman from Philly named Colleen R. LaRose alias Jihad Jane. As for not drawing Mohammed for fear of idolatry, that's questionable and absurd, because they already DO idolize Mohammed. Thank goodness the authorities in Ireland acted responsibly to collar all these fiends.

Update: here's more from the UK Times (via Hot Air Headlines):

Anti-terrorist units used information from the CIA, FBI and European intelligence agencies to identify the suspected terrorist cell of three women and four men. They are believed to include Algerian, Libyan, Croatian, US and Palestinian citizens and at least one naturalised Irish citizen.

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Irish police said that three men and two women were arrested in Waterford city and Tramore and a man and a woman in Ballincollig, Cork. They range in age from the mid-20s to late 40s and are understood to include at least one convert to Islam.

Senior police officers were eager to stress they do not believe that those arrested are members of the terrorist group and posed no threat to Irish security.

At least one of the suspects is a naturalised Irish citizen while a number of others have attempted to claim asylum.

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The suspects had been living legally in Ireland for up to ten years. Some arrived as refugees and none is in full-time employment.

Living on welfare, are they? I don't know, but no matter their status, I'd strongly recommend deporting and exiling them. And the cops should consider that given the chance, they would pose a threat to Ireland's own safety. What if Vilks lived there? There's every chance they could go after him there too.

Update 2: an anonymous source for the Jawa Report (via Michelle Malkin) is to be praised for having the courage to blow the whistle on Jihad Jane.

Others on the subject include Winds of Jihad, The Snooper Report, Around the Sphere.

Labels: Europe, immigration, islam, jihad, Scandanavia