Attempt to kill Danish cartoonist foiled

http://www.timesofearth.com/Entertainment/?NT=10&nid=15377 COPENHAGEN - Danish police have shot and wounded an axe-wielding Somali man who tried to break into the home of a cartoonist whose 2005 drawings of Prophet Muhammad outraged Muslims around the world.
Intelligence authorities said the 28-year-old suspect, armed with an axe and knife, had attempted to enter the home of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard in the eastern city of Aarhus late on Friday.

Westergaard, whose 5-year-old granddaughter was in the home on a sleepover, sought shelter in a specially made safe room when the suspect broke a window of the home, Preben Nielsen of the Aarhus police said.

Michael Larsen, a police spokesman, said that authorities arrived at the house minutes after receiving an alarm alerting them to the intruder.

"[The authorities] found a person and he attacked the police with an axe and a knife. He was shot in the leg and the hand and he is in hospital [now]," he told AFP news agency .

The suspect's wounds were reportedly not life threatening.

Larsen said police officials are treating the incident as attempted murder, both of Westergaard and a police officer.

The man, who's name has been withheld as part of Danish privacy laws, was to be charged on Saturday.

Officials from the Danish security and intelligence service, Pet, said the suspect, a Danish resident, had close ties to the Somali group, al-Shabab.

"The attempted murder of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is linked to terrorism," the agency said in a statement.

"The person arrested ... has close links with the Somali terrorist organisation al-Shabab as well as with the heads of al-Qaeda in east Africa."

Westergaard has been under police protection since his work appeared among a dozen cartoons published in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005.

The drawings triggered violent protests a few months later in a number of countries around the world, and again when they were republished in 2008.

Protesters felt the cartoons had profoundly insulted Islam, which generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, favourable or otherwise.

Several dozen people were killed during the riots at the time as angry crowds attacked Danish embassies around the world.

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[maxiboy666]

European governments need to introduce new laws now.

1. Ban all Muslim demonstrations and close down all Mosques.

2. Deport all non citizen Muslims and bar any from entering the country.

3. Ban the Koran.

Europe is a Western democracy of Christian descent. Muslims have no place in our countries. LEAVE NOW.

[Jaabyourface]

and Allah dosen't exist, he is the dulusional god of a Delusional devolved inferieor race of Middle eastern brown rodents, The Dirrty brown Muslims are worthless, dirt, they all need to fuck off and die,  We will NOT put up with their islamic bullshit anymore! DEATH TO ISLAM!

[nickkperezy]

Dear every muslim/ terrorists we dont hate you for 9/11 anymore we hate you for NOT BEING ABLE TO TAKE A FUCKING JOKE!!!!! and every muslim that goes how would you like it if your god was made fun of well fuck off our god does get made fun of and sometimes we do it to are self and we sit back and laugh with those people not try to kill them

[nickkperezy]

dear muslims we dont hate you for 9/11 anymore now we just hate you because YOU CANT TAKE A GOD DAMN JOKE!!!!!!

[BenAwakeAWhile]

@hotbattle And where is your prophet? Raping women and cutting off their heads? Fucking Muslim savages.

[BenAwakeAWhile]

Leave it to terrorists to bring a knife (and axe) to a gunfight.

[hombrelubinero]

The real reason they want jihad? Anything that ugly can't get a woman. Even a dog wouldn't pee on their legs they're so ugly. Those beards look like they could harbor a whole ecosystem. ''Grease your butt up again Ali akbar I'm comin' over''

[hasib10100]

@Jaabyourface ul fuckin see u mudafuckin priceless piece of shit die

it would be a really good thing

[NWA90s]

@maxiboy666 aint ganna happen bitch

[zoso1234]

Islam is a disease of the mind, it has mental health issues; rational people don't act like this....further>

Indonesian security forces say they have uncovered a militant plot to assassinate the president and kill foreigners in a Mumbai-style attack.

They say the plan was to strike during an Independence Day ceremony on 17 August, and declare an Islamic state.

The militants also planned to take over hotels and kill foreigners,

[hotbattle]

@adibgoubran So the Muslim countires ban all Christians immdiately now.Jesus never came in this world to start christianity.He was a simple Jew. and a prophet for jews .From which mouth you are saying you guys are christians.You guys are just using the holy name of Jesus to commit your worst crimes against all the muslims.Go and find your prophet first and then speak.