Erik Abild Soerensen, one of the 12 cartoonists that back in 2005 contributed to Jyllands-Postens cartoons of the prophet Muhammed has died at the age of 89.
Mr. Soerensen worked for Jyllands-Posten from 1938 until 1985. He was educated at an private art school and became a staff cartoonist at Jyllands-Posten in 1956. The Muhammed cartoon was the last published work in a career that spanned half a century. It was published under the caption: “Prophet! Daft and dumb. Keeping women under thumb.”
As a consequence of the death threats against the cartoonists Danish police showed up at Mr. Soerensen’s apartment in Aarhus offering security instructions. Soerensen replied:
”I have passed the age of 85, I am sick and I have just lost my wife. Can it get worse? I don’t think so.”
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32 Comments
1. Mikael:May he rest in peace, the brave man. I pray for him.
Mar 5, 2008 - 10:28 am 2. Zack:Next, he’ll have alot of time to evaluate his deeds.
Mar 6, 2008 - 12:52 am 3. Petar Novakovich:I agree, a very brave man worthy of respect.
Mar 6, 2008 - 12:56 am 4. Asger:Rest in peace. Will there a funeral, so one can place flowers?
Mar 6, 2008 - 10:10 am 5. #######:one down , 11 to go
Mar 6, 2008 - 7:08 pm 6. yochanan:may G-d bless his soul
Mar 6, 2008 - 8:00 pm 7. Happy:Great news.
Mar 7, 2008 - 2:38 pm 8. inshallahshaheed:AllahuAkbar!
AllahuAkbar!
May Allah’s Curse be upon him.
May Allah’s Curse be upon all of the Danish Cartoonists and their supporters.
Alhamdullilah, this is great news.
Mar 7, 2008 - 10:45 pm 9. aaam:Dead as a Dodo , O’ lord good ridence, so happy to hear this news
Mar 8, 2008 - 2:45 am 10. SomeoneinSomeplace:Go to Hell.
Mar 8, 2008 - 11:48 am 11. Abu Zubair:Danish, son of a bitch!!!
Hellfire is Tremendous for You.
o Erik Abild Have you found true what your Lord promised you of punishment cuz we have found true what our Lord promised us.
ALLAH U AKBAR!!!
ALLAH U AKBAR!!!
ALLAH U AKBAR!!!
you dont mess around with the beloved of the Lord of the heaven and earth.
Mar 8, 2008 - 12:54 pm 12. Jackob:I think he has contributed alot to the the environment of hate. A man in his eighties should’ve joined the party of piece and harmony, not of hate and prejeduce as he did. and speaking of braveness, I think he had no the slightest of courage to draw cartoons depicting Jews or Zionism which are the most racist orgnization that the world has ever known
Mar 8, 2008 - 1:32 pm 13. Abdullah:I will not curse him,but I would say god guid everyone to the right path.we need to learn how to live together without anyone harm the other.
Mar 8, 2008 - 7:20 pm 14. jagga:AllahuAkbar!
AllahuAkbar!
May Allah burn him in hell fire for eternity and make hell on earth for his supporters
Mar 8, 2008 - 7:44 pm 15. Slave of One God:Death is not his end.
It’s just the beginning of torment
forever
Mar 9, 2008 - 3:41 am 16. said:Braveness has never been gotten by insulting others.
hope others learn from his mistake
Mar 9, 2008 - 12:27 pm 17. Mazen:”I have passed the age of 85, I am sick and I have just lost my wife. Can it get worse? I don’t think so.”
Oh believe me it will get a lot worse…..in hell.
Mar 9, 2008 - 6:11 pm 18. Ahmad:Alhumdilillah. Great news!
Mar 9, 2008 - 7:53 pm 19. TG:RIP, Mr. Soerensen.
Live in discomfort, Religion of Peaceniks who wrote the hateful comments above.
Mar 9, 2008 - 8:10 pm 20. MOHAMMED:He committed the worst…. he is regretting his life now….
Mar 10, 2008 - 7:44 am 21. Flower of Allah:ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!
Mar 10, 2008 - 8:10 am 22. ali:Great news… ALHUMDULLILLAH
That is the ultimate destination for this bad guy.He deserved the painful death.
Mar 10, 2008 - 8:44 am 23. Mikael:Funny how all these spiteful worshipers cheers at the death of an old man and see the hand of God in his demise.
Did it ever occur to them that Mr. Soerensen was older than Khomeini, and a LOT older than Mohammad when he passed away? Perhaps the hand of God is to be seen in this after all. Just a thought.
Mar 10, 2008 - 6:46 pm 24. abu sahl:AL HAMDU LILLAH
ALLAH WILL BE ENOUGH FOR THEIR PUNISHMENT.
Mar 10, 2008 - 7:02 pm 25. Jack:It is so wonderfull to read all these comments from the followers of the “religion of peace and tolerance”…..
A sad story that this old man had to live in fear because of a racist and violent religion. All he did was living his life in europe along with europeans values and traditions. Things certainly are changing with the coming of the hatefull religion – it is the end of the free world as we know it (nd as we like it)
Mar 10, 2008 - 8:00 pm 26. KeepAlive:Get this Jack: I just typed in Christian Cartoons on Google images. There’s over 200 thousand Christian Cartoons online.. Man I am very happy to see that all these thousands of Cartoonist who has drawn these Christian cartoons haven’t died at the hands of Christian or any religious extremists. I am also happy that most educated people know how to have a sense of humor. These Islamic extremists really need to come out of the Dark Ages, and get to know what happiness and humor, and love, and caring really means, and stop praying to their unseen God for the death of mankind. I could go on, and on with this…
Mar 10, 2008 - 11:04 pm 27. Amir:It is funny how people talk about freedom of speech and freedom of religion and yet they have history of creating chaos through out the world, killing of Indians when European first settled in America to gain their land, making African American their property and torturing them for hard labor, Nuclear bombing of Japan…and yet I’m follower of violent religion…this is the fastest growing religion because it is a violent religion…you can hate but you can not stop this religion growing strong..Islam is a way of life who teach respect and tolerance in extend that you don’t come out hurting us and not to expect any reaction….I wanna see all these people who speak of freedom of speech have their family cursed, humiliated, mocked in front of them and see what they going to say…I hate double standard people…God is great
Mar 11, 2008 - 2:56 pm 28. chameleon47:Allhamdulillah (All praise be to Allah)
this is a beautiful news.
As Prophet Muhammad (saw) says that the fire of hell is seventy times hotter than the fire of this world.
we hope and pray that this man burns for the rest of his ever lasting life.
and so will the rest of his supporters follow.
we Muslims take our religion serious. inshaAllah.
Mar 11, 2008 - 11:22 pm 29. Unknown:Very good,
I am very happy to hear the news of this rascal. I am 100% sure that he would be burning in HELL.
Mar 12, 2008 - 8:46 am 30. Naim:May he sleep in hell
May 22, 2008 - 9:23 am 31. 0014:fuck again again such type of cartoonist. fuck danish. fuck danish cartoonist.
Jun 28, 2008 - 1:33 pm 32. 0014:fuck again and again such type of cartoonist. fuck danish. fuck danish cartoonist.
Jun 28, 2008 - 1:35 pm