Arab Death Threats

Nexis gave me 40 hits this morning for articles in the last week which contain the words "Arab" or "Muslim" or "Islam" and "death threat."

So, what have our fun-loving religion of peace friends been up to in the last week?

Some Muslims are on trial in Denmark for death threats against two politicians, and as I reported yesterday, death threats have been lodged against cartoonists at a Danish newspaper.

Also in Denmark, Dutch-Moroccan columnist Hasna El Maroudi was forced to stop writing her column after receiving death threats after she wrote that Berbers from Morocco's Rif mountains are backward "importers of goats." That's a pretty low bar for a death threat!

Moving beyond Holland, we find:

• In Germany, critics of Islam, including professors and journalists, are increasingly reporting death threats.
• Attorneys in the Saddam Hussein trial are receiving death threats.
• The founder of the Afghanistan Women's Association is receiving death threats.
• The constitutional election in Iraq moved forward despite death threats. In Ramadah, voting was dramatically curtailed because of death threats against voters.
  
• Two religious leaders in Afghanistan were shot to death after receiving death threats.
• And, high-profile anti-Syrians in Lebanon are getting ... what? ... what? ... anyone? .. anyone?

In contrast, there were 20 hits for "Christian" and "death threats," most of them irrelevant (like a Batman review by Roger Ebert) or about death threats against Christians. I found one article about Muslim jail inmates in the US complaining that a guard had threatened to kill them.

Of all these examples, guess who's going to be investigated?