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[dulouz]

Denmark minister's car torched
13:04pm 8th June 2005
The Danish immigration minister's private car was torched in front of her home early on Wednesday in a protest against the Nordic country's tough immigration policy, local media reported.
"We are investigating the case as arson," police inspector Carsten Krogh was quoted as saying by Danish news agency Ritzau.

Ritzau said a previously unknown action group had claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement reading: "We will not watch passively while the official Denmark exercises its rasict immigration policy. Therefore we act now!"


The group's Danish name "Graensloese Beate" translates as "Beate Without Borders" or "Boundless Beate".

Danish police were not immediately available for comment.

The fire spread from the car to the house but Minister for Refugees, Immigration and Integration Rikke Hvilshoj, 35, and her family were unhurt, a government spokesman told Reuters.

Denmark's centre-right government won a landslide victory in 2001 on pledges to cut the number of immigrants coming to the Nordic country.

Hvilshoj was appointed minister in February, when the coalition was re-elected on the back of the popular crackdown on asylum-seekers and tax cuts.

Since 2001 the number of asylum-seekers has plummeted by almost 80 percent.

Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and opposition leaders condemned the attack.

Ritzau said the name of the group claiming the attack, could refer to the head of the Vienna-based European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), Beate Winkler.

[keithinkorea]

Burning a car is hardly a terrorist act. An act of vandalism yes, but it is hardly up there with things that terrorsts groups get up to.

If only all terrorists could be as chilled out as Danish 'terrorists'.

Weird article, where did you get it from?

[dulouz]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=351551&in_page_id=1811&ito=1490

The Times Online.


To be true, no one has been convicted however... if a Mosque od Islamic school had been torched or only a cross had been burned, the response would be nowhere as muted. European left wing terrorism exists, ie the assasination of Pim Fortyn and acts like that inspired the murder of Theo Van Gogh.

[Alias]

Van Gogh's murder was an Islamic extremist.

[keithinkorea]

[dulouz]

[Nowhere Man]

Another fine post from BOZO.

While you're busy labeling "right-wing" "terrorism"( if that is what it is) as leftist, would you mind if I ask what country you're from?

[keithinkorea]

[Swiss James]

[dulouz]

If you can prove to me I am wrong, I am certainly mature enough to admit to it. If my reference was wrong, I admit to it.

[keithinkorea]

[Bulsajo]

Dulouz, you've already proven yourself wrong- don't you see that? I think you must not understand what Swiss James is driving at.

[joe_doufu]

The question is, was burning the car intended to frighten the minister into changing her actions? Or was it just intended to piss her off and get their "message" into the news (an act of anti-social protest)? In the former case, it is terrorism.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I basically agree with joe_doufu, but go further.

There are a lot of ways to protest for a cause and get the message out. I'm all for those and have done a few myself.

But for me, the line is drawn at violence of any kind. The people who cross that line, whether it is blowing up a car or throwing a bomb are just an inch apart on the spectrum. Both have taken on the 'right' to attack others because of their view. I clearly see the difference between burning a car and killing a person, but once the line is crossed where you claim the right to act in any way you see fit, it is only a matter of degree.

Violence to achieve a political end is just wrong. (That's my view.)

[Bulsajo]

If this thread terrifies me, does that make Dulouz a terrorist?