Major hat tip to Creeping Sharia and Jawa Report who are just breaking this news...

Creeping Sharia has the English translation from the Danish website Indland:

(Note - Some of the translation is rough)

Jyllands-Posten’s 74-year-old cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was Friday evening face a violent assassination attempt.

It happened in character’s private home in Viby J, near Aarhus, where a 28-year-old man with a Somali background broke into the home and tried to beat Westergaard death with a knife and hatchet.

The offender was subsequently shot by police, but survived. He is now arrested and in hospital.

Attempted murder of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is in police intelligence assessment (PET) terrorist-related, and the offender has “close ties to the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabaab” and part of the “Al Qaeda” states PET.

The offender also suspected of having been “involved in terrorist related activities” in East Africa and to be “part of a terrorism-related network linked to Denmark”.

Kurt Westergaard apparently survived the violent attack because he hid in the bathroom, which is converted to a so-called sikringsrum (safe-room).

His granddaughter in just five years was present during the attack. A shaken Westergaard have no doubt that the perpetrator would try to kill him.

“That was close. It was really close, “he says to jp.dk.

According to PET has the man as ‘close relationship’ with the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabaab and al-Qaida leaders in East Africa, and he is “suspected” of having been involved in previous terrorist attacks in East Africa.

According to PET is the man also part of ‘a terrorist network associated with attachment to Denmark, which for a long time has been the subject of PET’s investigations, but without the context of the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

Note - See related article here at Libertarian Republican which ran just last week - "Al Shabaab Militants seize 5 Islands, Advance on Kenyan Border," which highlights the increasingly expansionist Jihadist actions of the terrorist group.