Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has come out in support of the Dutch broadcast of the controversial Geert Wilders anti-Quran film that has been linked in several protests to the recent republication of Westergaard's bomb-in-turban cartoon. Also: he's moved into a sixth safe house since being driven from his home by threats, and he doesn't really care for radical Muslim leaders.

* Qatar promises to be the Stephen Jackson to another nation's Ron Artest if the decision is made to go into the stands as a group and seek economic reprisal for things like the Danish cartoons.

* this article makes the point as clearly as anything has that people protesting "because of the Danish cartoons" may be protesting because of reasons that have nothing to do with the Danish cartoons.
 
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