A famous landmark and boat ride in Copenhagen, Denmark
Story highlights
- Copenhagen police kill a gunman during a shootout Sunday
- He’s suspected in Saturday’s deadly attacks at a free speech forum and near a synagogue
Updated 3:20 AM ET, Sun February 15, 2015
Copenhagen, Denmark (CNN) Danish police say they believe a man killed in a shootout Sunday is responsible for attacks at both a free speech forum and a synagogue in Copenhagen.
On Saturday, a gunman stormed a cafe where controversial Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks and his supporters had gathered for a free speech forum. The shooter killed a 55-year-old man and wounded three officers before fleeing, police said.
About 10 hours later, someone approached two officers near a synagogue and started shooting, police said. Those officers were wounded, but another person nearby died.
On Sunday morning, as officers tried to approach a man who may be connected to the attacks, the man opened fire, Copenhagen police said. Police returned fire, killing him. No officers were injured.
While the identity of the shooter was not released, Islamist extremists have made documented threats against Vilks.
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said she believes that attack was an act of terror.
“Everything points to … the shooting in Oesterbro (being) a political assassination and therefore a terror attack,” Thorning-Schmidt said.
“We have some difficult days ahead … But in Denmark, we will never bow to violence.”
Free speech forum turns deadly
The forum at the cafe Saturday afternoon was interrupted by the sounds of dozens of gunshots.
“Everybody, of course, panicked in the room and tried to run,” professor and satire researcher Dennis Meyhoff Brink said. “We were just hiding … and hoping for the best.”
Brink said he heard about 30 shots at 3:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. ET), as well as someone yelling in a foreign language.
The attacker made it just inside the building but apparently got no farther, said Helle Merete Brix, a journalist and founder of the Lars Vilks Committee. The committee supports the cartoonist whose portrayals of the Prophet Mohammed angered many in the Muslim world.
Brix said one man there “acted very quickly and courageously” by pushing a woman down to the ground, then putting himself on top of her so she wouldn’t get shot.
Bodyguards returned fire, the Copenhagen police official said. But the gunman managed to flee.
“We are investigating this as a terror attack,” police investigator Joergen Skov said.
Categories: Europe and Australia, Free speach, Free Speech, Freedom, Terrorism
The Muslim Times’ Collection on Islam’s Condemnation of Terrorism
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Denmark is a country in Northern Europe. The most southern of the Nordic countries, it is located southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark[N 11] is a sovereign state that comprises Denmark and two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
Capital: Copenhagen
Currency: Danish krone
Population: 5.614 million (2013) World Bank
Official language: Danish
Colleges and Universities: University of Copenhagen, more
Points of interest
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Tivoli Gardens The Little Mermaid Rosenborg Castle
Kronborg Amalienborg
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Surah Al Ghashiya-Mishary Al Afasy
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Chapter 88 Al-Ghashiyah
http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=1257®ion=EN
The Holy Quran : Chapter 88: Al-Ghashiyah الغَاشِیَة
English Translation by Maulvi Sher Ali (ra) اردو ترجمہ [حضرت مرزا طاہر احمد، خلیفۃ المسیح الرابع]
[88:1] In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
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[88:2] Has there come to thee the news of the overwhelming calamity?
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[88:3] Some faces on that day will be downcast;
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[88:4] Toiling, weary.
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[88:5] They shall enter a burning Fire;
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[88:6] And will be made to drink from a boiling spring;
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[88:7] They will have no food save that of dry, bitter and thorny herbage,
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[88:8] Which will neither fatten, nor satisfy hunger.
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[88:9] And some faces on that day will be joyful,
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[88:10] Well pleased with their labour,
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Huzur said the activity of the opponents of Islam is gathering pace these days and we have only one Rafiq to turn to with Whose help we can contend with them. Huzur said the enemy of Islam something lowly planned for today – Geert Wilder, the anti-Islam Dutch politician has made a film which he planned to release today but it was shown on a minor TV channel yesterday and was also released on the Internet. Huzur said the major TV channels have so far refused to broadcast it, may Allah continue to give them sense to desist. Huzur said Wilder has raised objections over verse 5 of Surah Muhammad (47:5), this, Huzur added is not a new objection; rather it is an age-old objection against Islam. Huzur said the teaching of Islam is based on such kindness and awareness of the feelings of others that it was necessary to explain and spell out the other side of the teaching as well. Islamic teaching is not too harsh neither too lenient. Huzur said
http://www.alislam.org/friday-sermon/2008-03-28.html
Allah’s Attribute: Al-Khaliq, An insight into this divine attribute was given by Promised Messiah (A.S.), Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) was the most excellent model who considered Allah Rafiq e Ala (the Most High Friend), Activity of the opponents of Islam is gathering pace these days and we have only one Rafiq to turn to with Whose help we can contend with them, Promised Messiah (A.S.) said say durood a lot of times which is a great way of gaining adherence, Holland Jama’at should make it clear to the man responsible for this that if he did not abide by his bad actions he may get under Allah’s wrath, Attributes of the kind and the compassionate blessed model of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.), Martyrdom of Dr. Sarwar Khan Sahib of Peshawar.
Assalaamu ‘alaikum w w
It is unfortunate that some Muslims these days don’t follow the Qur’an, and treat it as an abandoned Book. The Qur’an instructs Muslims to show patience when hurtful things are heard:
[3:187] You shall surely be tried in your possessions and in your persons and you shall surely hear many HURTFUL things from those who were given the Book before you and from those who set up equals to Allah. But if you show PATIENCE and act righteously, that indeed is a matter of strong determination.
Moreover, the Qur’an teaches Muslims to turn away from those who mock the Signs of Allah, not to kill them, ad to return to their company whe they change the subject:
[6.69] When thou sees those who engage in vain discourse concerning Our Signs, then turn thou away from them until they engage in a discourse other than that. And if Satan cause thee to forget, then sit not after recollection, with the unjust people.
The following verses tells us that we won’t be held accountable for their mockeries, but our duty is to admonish them, refute them and remind them of the truth (not to kill them):
[6:70] And those who are righteous are not at all accountable for them, but their duty is to admonish them, that they may fear God.
Thus, the right course of action is to refute the propaganda that arises as a result of caricatures and mocking anti-Islamic films and books etc. ad advise them to desist from mockery.
Wassalaam.