Apple Daily, the Taiwanese news outlet that has been garnering a great deal of attention lately with its brilliantly rendered animations re-creating current events (including the wild Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno showdown a few days ago which earned nearly half a million views) has just released its latest simulation — this time on a much more serious subject, the New Year’s Day attack on Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard by an Islamic jihadist.
The animation is quite chilling, and shows how Westergaard only barely escaped a gruesome death and probable beheading at the hands of the al-Qaeda linked Somali attacker; you can see it starting at 0:22 in this English-language report on the incident which Apple Daily just posted at YouTube:
(You can also view the video directly on its own YouTube page here.)
Note that the animator got one detail wrong in the re-creation; he shows Westergaard carrying his young granddaughter into the panic room with him, while in reality he had become separated from her during the attack and was locked in the room alone; luckily, the attacker didn’t notice or care about the granddaughter hiding elsewhere in the house.
Superb animation. Interesting that you caught the factual error about the granddaughter. My guess is they were following some inaccurate reporting, since I had assumed the same thing.
Picture an axe wielding right winger attacking the Doonesbury or other Lefty political cartoonist. He’d get high-minded cartoonists and their publishing peers across the Western World bravely uniting as a solid wall against the dangers of Right Wing Christian Nazis, bolstered all the while by the comforting knowledge that no such generalized threat exists, and that such grandstanding and heroics have no cost, pose no risks whatsoever to themselves…
A devout Muslim however, who takes his Islam seriously, takes his Koran seriously, takes his Imam seriously, and follows his prophet’s exhortations to murder and terrorize…
He gets crickets chirping. One hand clapping. Zilch.
Thank you for posting this. Very interesting animation.
Someone should produce an “American version” of it, with the guy defending himself with a nice shotgun.
Just to drive mad the jihadist public worldwide.