Lars Hedegaard & the Assassin at the Door

Lars Hedegaard, a Danish journalist and historian, is the founder of the International Free Press Society and editor of Dispatch International.

Lars Hedegaard, The Assassin at the Door.
The day a gunman disguised as a postal worker tried to kill him.

I opened a window in my apartment to see who was down below at the front door. A man dressed in a red jacket with the logo of the Danish postal service was waiting at the door. He said he had a package for me ...

I went down and opened the front door ... As I held the package ... he immediately pulled out a gun and fired at my head ...

The distance between us must have been less than a yard. Nevertheless, he missed ...

Regrettably, he managed to run off with the gun. The police found a bullet hole in the wall and a cartridge.

I judged my attacker to be around 25 years old and either an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants—most probably from an Arab country or possibly Pakistan. He spoke Danish with no accent ...

I have been an outspoken critic of Islamic supremacism and of attempts to impose Islamic Shariah law in Denmark and the West ...

Dispatch International is critical of mass immigration to Sweden and Denmark from third-world countries and takes a dim view of Islam ...

Lars Hedegaard Speaks to the Danish Free Press Society

... I would like to point out that if you have read what I‘ve written — I have written several books and many articles — then you will see that I have never expressed hatred towards any specific ethnic groups.

I do not hate Muslims, I differentiate between Muslims and the ideology of Islam ...

In this country one is able to without the slightest risk stand up and pronounce that of course Sharia will be introduced with everything that it implies in terms of barbaric punishment and repression. One can also, without anyone touching a single hair on one’s head, state that immoral women must have stones thrown at their heads until they die, and that Muslims who turn their back on Islam of course must be killed. But if you say or write that this is what Islam is all about then you are guaranteed to be accused of racism, risk criminal prosecution, and — as we have just witnessed — attempted murder...

That’s why I’m saying: is it not better to start listening to what people are actually trying to say, rather than stigmatizing them as outlaws who can be treated accordingly? Could it not be the case that those who in recent years have warned against the mass immigration of people who cannot and will not integrate into our society actually are deeply concerned about what is going to happen to Denmark and to our children? Could it not be the case that those who warn against the threat of Islamization are actually afraid of Islamization because they have seen what has happened in places wherever Islam has become prominent? That they are afraid of losing our most precious freedom, namely the freedom of expression? If it is lost, it will probably never be regained.

So therefore I ask questions, and I will continue to ask questions. And so therefore I speak, and I will continue to speak.

Diana West, Old Vikings of the Counterjihad

So why the attempt to kill him now? The feeling at both Dispatch International and the Danish Free Press Society is that the trigger was the advent of the new newspaper, which last month began regular publication and, in its Swedish edition, delivery. (It is available online in Danish and Swedish, and in English here: www.d-intl.com/?lang=en.) Covering all manner of issues mainstream media ignore – much of it (not all) regarding the effects of Islamic law and immigration on indigenous European peoples – the newspaper clearly hit multiple nerves, even coming under a sustained cyberattack in December, which police are still investigating.

File under: killing to protect a "peaceful" religion?

(Via Andrew Bostom)