Danish police said they shot and wounded a Somali man with Al Qaeda links
when he tried to break into the home of a cartoonist whose 2005 caricatures
of Prophet Mohammad outraged many Muslims.
The 28-year-old man, armed with a knife and axe, failed to get into Kurt
Westergaard's home in the town of Aarhus late on Friday and was shot in the
leg and hand after he threw the axe at a policeman, a police spokesman said.
The man, who was now under arrest, had "close ties to the Somali terror
organisation Al Shabaab as well as to Al Qaeda leaders in East Africa," the
Danish Security and Intelligence Service PET said in a statement.
It said the man, who had a legal residence permit for Denmark, was also
"suspected of being involved in terror-related activities in East Africa".
The security service said the man, who would be charged with attempting to
kill Mr Westergaard and the police officer, had been involved in a
"terror-related network" that has long been under investigation in
connection with threats to Mr Westergaard.
"PET looks very seriously upon this case which once again confirms the
terror threat directed against Denmark and the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard
in particular," PET chief Jakob Scharf said in the statement.
Mr Westergaard was not hurt in the incident, a police spokesman said.
He said police were still investigating whether the Somali man acted alone.
Last year US authorities arrested two men in Chicago who were suspected of
planning attacks on Mr Westergaard and his newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which
published the caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.
I fail to see if any crime has been committed in the first place.
The Somali guy being a Muslim did what Muslims always do with is to
rape, kill and pillage.
If anyone is at fault than it has to be stupid Danes to have allowed
such animals into their nation in the first place.
The Danish people should be commended for their refusal to adopt the
'hate speech' laws so popular in the rest of Europe. Had the
cartoonist been in Britain or Germany, he would have been the one
under arrest, and insane izlamists would be permitted to stand on the
street corner calling for his beheading.
> The man, who was now under arrest, had "close ties to the Somali terror
> organisation Al Shabaab as well as to Al Qaeda leaders in East Africa," the
> Danish Security and Intelligence Service PET said in a statement.
>
> It said the man, who had a legal residence permit for Denmark, was also
> "suspected of being involved in terror-related activities in East Africa".
A quick look at a map reveals that Somalia is right across a narrow
strait from Yemen. Neither country has any effective government, and
both are being used as bases by al-Qaeda and other radical izlamist
groups. Besides terrorism, Somalis are engaging in piracy in the same
strait I mentioned. Any military action against Yemen will require
simultaneous action against Somalia.
You can not speak out against a religion that exhorts its votaries to
fight and slay non believers.
You can not speak out against a religion that specifically forbids its
followers to befriend a Christian or a Jew.
You can not speak out against a religion that sanctions a husband to
beat his wife.
You can not speak out against a religion that sanctions deceit to
further the cause of Islam.
I am glad I do not live in any society that gives known perverts,
kooks and misfits authority to carry out mission harmful to the host
country.