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Stockholm, January 9, 2010— A Swedish artist who
angered Muslims in 2007 for his caricature of the Prophet Mohammed as a
dog said Monday he had received two threatening phone calls from
Somalia.
Lars Vilks said a man who spoke poor Swedish asked him if he was aware
of what had happened in neighboring Denmark to newspaper cartoonist Kurt
Westergaard who late Friday survived an attack on his home.
Westergaard's controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb
in his turban was one of 12 images published in September 2005 by
Jyllands-Posten. The cartoons sparked outrage among Muslims and violent
protests worldwide in early 2006.
Late Friday a Somali-born man armed with an axe and a knife broke into
Westergaard's home in western Denmark but was arrested by police alerted
by the cartoonist who sought refuge in a specially secured room.
'I said, of course I knew about it,' Vilks told the online edition of
the Helsingborgs Dagblad newspaper.
The man said several times 'they were coming' before the call ended,
Vilks said. He filed a complaint with police later Monday.
Vilks established that the phone number on his display was from Somalia.
The Swedish artist in 2007 received several threats and a bounty of
100,000 dollars was placed on his head by an Iraq-based insurgency group
after his caricature was published.
Source: dpa, Tuesday, January 05, 2010
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