Talk:Kurt Westergaard

message: A sentence from this page was featured on a bad writing contest (http://adamcadre.ac/11lyttle.html).  I'm inclined to agree with their stance.  The below sentence sounds really bad...
The intruder attempted to break down the reinforced door with his axe, shouting phrases like “We will get our revenge!”, “Revenge!” and “Blood!”
The repetition of the word "Revenge" is what ruins it for me.  Also, too many exclamation points.  Maybe someone can rewrite this bit. 216.31.211.11 (talk) 18:58, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad sentence 

message: W or V 
Kurt Vestergaard or Kurt Westergaard? 
During the axeman trial, the cartoonist explaing that his true name is spelled with V. His 'nome de guerre' however is KW.
Den 75-årige tegner fortalte torsdag i retten, at hans 'nome de guerre' er KW, men at hans borgerlige navn er Kurt Vestergaard.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.226.178.140 (talk) 12:19, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  True name 

message: Peter L: Terribly sorry about that, somehow I missed that bit about 28 when I reverted that last one. 
All: There seems to be a high amount of vandalism on this article this morning. I am new to this. What would be the appropriate steps to take to request some sort of protection on this article?
98.108.135.143 (talk) 11:52, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi and welcome, no problem. :) If vandalism gets out of hand, page protection can be requested here. Semi-protection (i.e. preventing new and anonymous editors from editing) is common in cases like this. You may want to create a user account so you won't be affected by such protection in the future. Also, feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you want help. — Peter L <talk|contribs> 22:30, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent vandalism 

message: I've just removed an edit referencing an Ekstra Bladet journalist calling Kurt Westergaard a coward "because he fled to the safe room without his five-years-old granddaughter".
My justification for removing it is that my understanding is that Kurt Westergaard happened to already be in the bathroom / safe room when the attacker broke into the house. He stuck his head out of the door, saw the maniac with the axe, and retreated back into the safe room and locked the door and alarmed the police. In other words, the edit I removed contained a factual error when it said Kurt Westergaard "fled to the safe room".
I suppose it can be argued that some reference to criticism towards Kurt Westergaard can be added to the article, if factual errors are avoided and if the criticism is "notable". Personally I'd prefer to not see that kind of nonsense in the article.
The bottom line is, what Kurt Westergaard did resulted in the best possible result, given the situation. Neither he nor his granddaughter were harmed. 
What could have happened if he had instead fled to the living room in an attempt to save the granddaughter is that the attacker could have caught up with him and hacked him to death in front of the child. Maybe. Who knows?
Never having been in a situation like that (thank heaven), I don't know how one reacts. But I'm guessing that rational thought processes are not part of what goes on. One probably reacts instinctively, and the basic animal core parts of the brain take over. Later on one can rationalize it, and armchair pundits can criticize it, and I don't see much purpose in that.
It may also be that women react differently than men when we get down to the very basic survival / fight / flee parts of the brain. (The Ekstra Bladet journalist in question is a woman.)
One can also argue that the child's parents should be criticized for leaving the child together with a person with death threats hanging over him. 
Anyway, it would strike me as regrettable if the article ends up containing criticism of Kurt Westergaard, and no criticism at least 10 times stronger aimed at the assailant.  --RenniePet (talk) 00:56, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your removal. We should not insert every columnist's rant into a BLP. If someone with relevant qualifications publishes a study with an analysis of exactly what happened, and how various people have reacted in similar circumstances, we might quote it. The translation I saw of the article was poor, but it appears that the columnist has previously criticized Westergaard which makes the column even more dubious. Johnuniq (talk) 09:51, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  So he should have let his 5-year-old granddaughter see him get hacked to death by a rabid axe murderer? 

message: Unreliable?--NordicGirlsExtinctIn200Years (talk) 18:08, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Very. --Saddhiyama (talk) 18:50, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death rumours 

message: In this edit . The edit appears to originate in Canada (Rogers Cable Communications). __meco (talk) 13:48, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death threat via this article? 

message: The fact, that at least 50 people died in Pakistan, Lybia and other muslim countries during the Anti-cartoon protests should certainly be mentioned. Even though most victims of course were demonstrators shot by the police (like in Lybia) , this still shows the importance of these drawings in parts of the muslim communitiy and has to be mentioned.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.121.28.173 (talk) 00:27, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  50 people died

message: Um, did he die of fire or is this news report a fake? 
A Saudi newspaper reported that he actually died, back in 2010. I don't believe so, no other news portals have reported this. Recently, it has been resurfaced in blogs and facebook wall posts especially in Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan. Else, I believe this is a troll attempt by some pranksters.
Emc2trooper (talk) 08:23, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It is indeed a fake story. He is alive and well. --Saddhiyama (talk) 22:58, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: "Danish Blasphemer burns to death". Clearly an objective and trustworthy source there. Lithoderm 05:13, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death? 

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:38, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
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