Another assasination attempt on a Danish islam critic

As a general rule I don’t blog current events, but I figured I should at least post a link. This is the second time in a little over 3 years that muslim radicals have tried to kill a Danish islam critic in his own home. Given what happened Hedegaard is incredibly lucky to be alive.

My guess is that this will lead to some talk where everybody agrees that this kind of stuff is unacceptable and so on and so forth. We have laws against murder in this country and most people don’t like to get killed, so the fact that it is considered unacceptable to try to kill another individual may not come as a big surprise. The Danish People’s party may gain some imaginary votes in the polls in the short run. Most people will have forgotten about it next year, and it will not impact current immigration policies in any way.

Incidentally in Denmark we do not have a death penalty, the most you can get is life in prison. On average people who are sentenced to life in prison serve a little less than 17 years (Danish link). The guy who tried to kill Westergaard a few years ago got 10 years in jail (though they’ll also kick him out of the country after he’s served his time (on second thought they most likely won’t actually follow through on that part of his sentence)).