On 11 May 2010 , Muslim protesters assaulted Vilks while he was giving a lecture about free speech at Uppsala University . The attacks started when a film about Islam and homosexuality ( the video depicts images of topless men , including one brief image of two fully clothed men kissing , all interspersed with Islamic imagery ) was shown and some Islamists began to demand that the film be stopped , claiming it to be gay porn . The film in question was Iranian artist Sooreh Hera 's '' Allah ho Gaybar '' . Vilks ' eyeglasses were broken but he did not suffer any serious injuries , and was escorted to safety by security , while a few of the protesters were detained by police . Despite previous death threats , this was the first act of violence against Vilks . A few days later , on 15 May 2010 , Vilks ' house in southern Sweden was attacked by arsonists . They smashed the windows and threw in bottles of gasoline . There was a small fire , but the house was not burned to the ground . Vilks was not at home at the time of the attack . Two Kosovar-Swedish brothers were arrested , and July 15 they were sentenced to two and three years , respectively , of imprisonment . On 24 November 2010 , a video produced by the Somali Islamic organization Al-Shaabab was sent out . In the video , a Swedish speaking voice appeals to " all the Somali brothers and sisters " in Sweden , to leave that country and come to Somalia to fight for Al-Shabaab . He announces a death threat against Vilks . On 11 December 2010 , a suicide bomber in Stockholm said in a message to media and the Swedish Security Police that " Now will your children , daughters and sisters die the same way our brothers and sisters die . Our actions will speak for themselves . As long as you do n't end your war against Islam and degradation against the prophet and your foolish support for the pig Vilks . " In 2010 Anwar al-Awlaki published an Al-Qaeda hit list in '' Inspire '' magazine , including Lars Vilks . In 2013 the list was later expanded to include Stéphane " Charb " Charbonnier , who the Lars Vilks committee gave their freedom prize in 2014 . When Charb was murdered in a terror attack on '' Charlie Hebdo '' in Paris , along with 11 other people , Al-Qaeda called for more cartoonists to be killed , and Vilks stepped up his security
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