Lars Vilks gets a threat too

January 5th, 2010 by Monitor

Down boy! One of the Lars Vilks Modog toons

Swedish artist Lars Vilks is the latest cartoonist to receive a threat from jihad group al-Shabaab (“The Lads”).

The phlegmatic creator of the Modog series of cartoons got a couple phone calls from someone claiming to represent the Somalian Islamothugs. Vilks told his local newspaper:

The man, who spoke accented Swedish, asked me if I knew about what happened in Denmark and to the artist Kurt Westergaard. I said I certainly did.

The man then explained that they were out after more and that they would soon come for me. I told them they were welcome.

2 Responses to “Lars Vilks gets a threat too”

Stuart says:

05/Jan/2010 at 11:15 am

Thanks for letting us know about this, I have cross-posted.
Now a Swedish Cartoonist gets threats from the “religion of peace” « The Antitheist Daily says:

06/Jan/2010 at 3:18 am

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