Internet hackers have attacked a website run by Denmark’s Free Press Society selling prints of a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed, the group’s director said Monday.<\/p>\n
"We don’t know who is behind this attack on our site International Free Press Society, but if it’s an attempt to sabotage the sale (of the pictures), this attempt has been a failure," Lars Hedegaard told AFP.<\/p>\n
Despite the hacking, Hedegaard said close to "600 of the one thousand signed prints" had been sold, over half of them to foreign buyers.<\/p>\n
The prints of the cartoon by Danish artist Kurt Westergaard, featuring the prophet wearing a turban with a lit fuse stuck on the top, were put up for sale for $250 (€188) on the group’s website on April 8.<\/p>\n
A collection of similar drawings by Westergaard and other artists sparked protests from Muslims worldwide when they appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005.<\/p>\n
Westergaard, 73, has since received death threats and now lives under police protection after Danish intelligence uncovered a suspected plot by two Tunisian nationals to kill him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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