Posted on 01/02/2010 8:52:13 AM PST by Nextrush
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.
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 worl to target the people like" him.......
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
They say the terrorist name cannot be revealed for Danish legal reasons. He's accused of attempted manslaugher according to the BBC story.
Come on. He was just looking for firewood! /sarc
Kill those frickin mullahs and imans and whoever is congratulating this garbage as fast they open their fly ridden pieholes.
All it takes is one sorry nuke to pulverize Somalia and yet we don’t do it.
Cartoons can trump brain washing.. and religion..
They can display ideas totally ILLEGAL and Outlawed by tyrants..
And bypass words and culture.. CARTOONS ARE DANGEROUS..
The only way to defeat Islam is by laughing it to DEATH..
The suspect, who denies the charge,
What?
"Heeeeeeres Mohammed!".
Maybe he was just had an axe to grind?
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