Support Free Speech, Support Lars Vilks

To:  The Swedish government

We have with growing alarm watched the increase in Islamic terror during the past few years, and now that terror has reached Sweden. A reward has been posted by al-Qaida for the murder of Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who drew a caricature of Islam's prophet Muhammed. Ulf Johansson, the editor of Nerikes Allehanda, which published the drawing, has also been threatened.

We consider this to be an attempt at limiting freedom of speech in Sweden by threatening with violence. We will not stand for this, nor will we stand for the demands for laws against "blasphemy" which have been put forward by certain Muslim groups during the debate surrounding Vilks' cartoon. We find all of these attacks on our freedom of speech to be totally morally reprehensible.

We demand that the Swedish government reacts forcefully against all demands for religious laws, as well as direct threats from terrorists. We demand that our elected government defend the citizens of Sweden and their rights and freedoms. We therefore call upon the Swedish government to condemn the threats made against Lars Vilks and Ulf Johansson, and demand that they guarantee that the Swedish people and their rights and freedoms will be defended.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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