From the Guardian article headlined “Somali charged with murder attempt on Muhammad cartoonist”:
A Somali man has been charged with trying to murder a Danish artist whose cartoons of the prophet Muhammad sparked a storm of protest and violence across the Muslim world.
Danish police shot and wounded the 28-year-old man after he broke into Kurt Westergaard’s home in Aarhus last night armed with an axe and a knife. The suspect is said to have ties to al-Qaida.
The 75-year-old artist had retreated to a safe room with his five-year-old granddaughter. When police arrived they tried to arrest the intruder and then shot him in the hand and knee when he threatened an officer with the axe, said Preben Nielsen of the Aarhus police.
Westergaard’s cartoon was published in 2005.
January 3rd, 2010 at 6:19 pm
It’s amazing how stuff like this has gone on and how many people don’t stand up and criticize it. I don’t know what was in the cartoon but I doubt it was enough to kill over. I don’t see enough people denouncing stuff like this. I mean people in the media such as television, movies, or even our dear own comic books. We really should be showing more guts on this subject. The reasoning of ‘well, if we speak up more people will die, if we do a Mohammed cartoon more people might die.’ We had a military base get shot up last year. We had another man try to blow up an airline on Christmas and a bunch of CIA got killed recently. Maybe we should all do a Mohammed cartoon. It’s not enough to kill over.
Hey, I hate Joe Quesada. The man is a menace and has put out some of the worst Marvel Comics I’ll ever read, but I’ll never kill the guy.