Danish
police have shot and wounded a man at the home of Kurt Westergaard,
whose cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad sparked an international
row.
Westergaard was at home in Aarhus when a man broke in armed with a
knife. Police arrived and shot the man after Westergaard pressed a panic
alarm.
Police said he was shot in the knee and the shoulder after threatening
officers who tried to arrest him. Preben Nielsen of Aarhus police, said
the man was seriously hurt but his life was not in danger.
Danish officials said the intruder was a 28-year-old Somali linked to
the radical Islamist al-Shabab militia.
Police said the man had entered Westergaard's house armed with a knife
and had shouted in broken English that he wanted to kill him.
Westergaard said he had grabbed his five-year-old granddaughter and run
to a specially designed panic room where he raised the alarm.
He has now been taken to a safe location, but said defiantly that he
would be back, the newspaper reported.
Update:
Charged
3rd January 2010. See
article
from
news.bbc.co.uk
A Somali man has been charged with trying to kill a Danish artist
whose drawing of the Prophet Mohammed sparked riots around the world.
The suspect, who was shot by police outside cartoonist Kurt
Westergaard's home in the city of Aarhus on Friday, was carried into
court on a stretcher.
Police say he broke into the house armed with an axe and a knife.
The suspect, who denies the charge, was remanded in custody. Police
say he has links with Somali Islamist militants.
The radical al-Shabab group in Somalia hailed the attack.
Kurt Westergaard Sept 2006 I locked myself in our safe room and
alerted the police. He tried to smash the entrance door with an axe, but
he didn't manage Kurt Westergaard
Al-Shabab spokesman Sheikh Ali Muhamud Rage told AFP news agency:
We appreciate the incident in which a Muslim Somali boy attacked the
devil who abused our prophet Mohammed and we call upon all Muslims
around the world to target the people like him.
Update:
Mohammed Cartoons Reprinted
9th January 2010. Based on
article
from
theaustralian.com.au
The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has published reproductions of
controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed by Kurt Westergaard, the
victim of attempted murder last week.
In an article on Westergaard, the daily printed small versions of six
out of the 12 drawings by the Danish cartoonist that had infuriated
Muslims around the world when Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten first
published them in 2005.
Several of the drawings were seen as linking Islam and the Prophet
Mohammed to terrorism and suicide bombings, including the turban bomb
cartoon.
Update:
Cartoon Apologist
1st February 2010.
Based on
article
from
mediawatchwatch.org.uk
Pakistan's
Daily Mail carries a story claiming that the Norwegian ambassador to
Pakistan has strongly regretted the re-publication of the Turbomb
Motoon in the pages of Aftenposten.
Robert Kvile allegedly is of the view that the Norwegian government
would strive to reform understandings and to devise a strategy to
stop such practices in future.
Kvile had been summoned to the office of the Federal Minister for
Religious Affairs Syed Hamid Saeed Kazmi.