(Spectator-UK) Douglas Murray - The assassin came to his home dressed as a postman. When the historian and journalist Lars Hedegaard opened his front door, the man - whom Lars describes as "looking like a typical Muslim immigrant" in his mid-twenties - fired straight at his head. Though Hedegaard was a yard away, the bullet narrowly missed. The 70-year-old scholar then punched his assailant in the head. The man dropped the gun, picked it up and fired again. The gun jammed and the man ran off. More than a week later, he has yet to be found. A well-known figure in Denmark, Hedegaard set up the Free Press Society, which campaigns for the rights of journalists and cartoonists to express themselves without fear of murder, after the mainstream media's capitulation in the wake of the Mohammed cartoons affair. Q: What of those who say, "Well, he ought to have known. This is what happens if you upset or provoke people"? Hedegaard: "You could say the same thing about the Danish resistance movement during the German occupation. It was said to them: do not go out and sabotage. Collaborate and shut up, otherwise you'll get to a concentration camp and you'll be executed."
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