Assination attempt on Danish "Free Speech" Journalist - Lars Hedegaard

Reports this morning confirm an assassination attempt on noted Danish "Free Speech" Journalist - Lars Hedegaard - Co-Editor of the recently launched online newspaper "Dispatch International".  Mr. Hedegaard escaped injury by acting quickly in evading the assassins 1st shot and his attacker's gun jammed on a 2nd shot before the man fled.   This occurred at Mr. Hedegaard home in Copenhagen at 11:31am local time.  Police suspect two men were involved.

This shocking news only underscores the number of murders which have targeted journalists/documentary film-makers who have been critical of Islamic incursions into Western society and remain opposed to those who advocate for imposition of Sharia Law in the West.

This infamous tradition has included martyred Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn in May 2002, the Nov 2004 stabbing of Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh (who was married to another MP and member of Fortuyn's splinter Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy or VVD Ayaan Hirsi Ali)  Ms. Hirsi Ali was herself also threatened along with her parliamentary colleague who took over leadership of VVD, Geert Wilders.  Both Mr. Wilders and Ms. Hirsi Ali (who now resides in the U.S) live under round-the-clock police protection - just as (now) British writer Salman Rushdie and Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard (who survived a murderous attack in Jan 2010) - as does another Swedish cartoonist, Lars Vilks - who was assaulted and threatened with death in Nov 2010.   In Nov 2011 the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was also totally destroyed in a firebombing for printing cartoons that mocked Islam.

Below is video of Mr. Hedegaard addressing a Conference in New York City on Sept 11, 2012 to commemorate the 11th Anniversary of the 9/11 Terrorist Bombing.