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Kurt Westergaard has been targeted again, and both he and his young granddaughter were lucky to escape harm. The attempted assassin has also been injured and captured:

COPENHAGEN (AP) - A Somali man was charged Saturday with two counts of attempted murder for an attack on a Danish artist whose 2005 cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad ignited riots and outrage across the Muslim world, authorities said.

The artist - 74-year-old Kurt Westergaard - was moved to an undisclosed location for his own protection.

The 28-year-old Somali man with ties to al-Qaida broke into Westergaard's home in Aarhus on Friday night armed with an ax and a knife, said Jakob Scharf, head of Denmark's PET intelligence agency.

Westergaard, who has been the target of several death threats since depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban, pressed an alarm and fled with his 5-year-old granddaughter to a specially made safe room. He had been under round-the-clock protection by Danish security agents.

Officers arrived two minutes later and tried to arrest the assailant, but then shot him in the hand and knee when he threatened them with the ax, said Preben Nielsen of the Aarhus police.

Nielsen said the man's wounds were serious but not life-threatening, and Westergaard was "quite shocked" by the attack but was not injured.

The Somali man denied the charges at a court hearing Saturday in Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city, 125 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of Copenhagen. Accompanied by a lawyer, he was wheeled into the court on a stretcher from the hospital where he was being treated.

Chief Superintendent Ole Madsen in Aarhus said the man was charged with two counts of attempted murder: one on Westergaard and one on a police officer. The court also banned publication of the man's name.

That's a mistake, if you ask me. People should know who this monster is who would dare to commit violence in the name of his "religion". Westergaard is very fortunate to escape harm's way again, but it shows that in Europe, just like in the US, they're going to have to teach people to be alert, and if they see something, to say something.

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Labels: Europe, islam, jihad, racism, Scandanavia, Somalia