GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Westergaard's attacker charged....

I spent a day with Kurt Westergaard in December and he is an amazing man...
A Somali man, strapped to a stretcher, was carried into court in Denmark on Saturday to be formally charged with trying to kill a Danish artist whose 2005 caricature of the Prophet Muhammad provoked outrage among Muslims around the world.

The suspect, 28, faces two counts of attempted murder.

Police in the city of Aarhus were called to the home of Kurt Westergaard, 75, on Friday night to confront a man armed with an axe and a knife, said Jakob Scharf, head of Denmark's PET intelligence agency.

The artist, who has received previous death threats, pressed an alarm after the man broke a window and entered his home. Westergaard and his visiting five-year-old granddaughter fled to a specially made safe room.

Officers shot the suspect in the knee and hand when he threatened them with the axe, police said.

The suspect's name was not released in line with Danish privacy rules. A cloth covered his face to conceal his identity as he was wheeled into court in Aarhus, 200 kilometres northwest of Copenhagen.

Police said the man's wounds were serious but not life-threatening.

Westergaard remains a potential target for extremists nearly five years after he drew a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad, a drawing that was published along with 11 others in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

Jakob Scharf, who heads the PET intelligence service, said the attempt on the artist's life was "terror related." The suspect is alleged to have ties with the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab in Somalia.

1 Comments:

Blogger libhom said...

Westergaard's attacker is of the same ilk as the crazy Christian extremist who killed Dr. Tiller here in the US. Religious fundamentalism leads to terrorism, regardless of faith.

9:01 AM  

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