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December 21, 2005


Danish PM Hit on Cartoon Issue

According to this news source, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was criticized by a group of the country's diplomats for refusing to take meetings with Muslims on a newspaper's publication of mutliple cartoons depicting Muhammad. The cartoons are considered by some observers to have been an early trigger for riots throughout Europe this fall, and led to an extremist group in Pakistan calling for the death of the cartoonist (actually several cartoonists) responsible.
 
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