Mizanur Rahman Re-Trial on Charge of Inciting Murder Confirmed In News

Although Crown authorities declared outright their intention to do so at the time of Danish Cartoons protest Mizanur Rahman's conviction of race hatred charges last week, this morning's wire reports made it official: the 23-year-old web designer will be re-tried on the incitement to murder charge that resulted in a hung jury the first time around.

Beyond the dramatic nature of such a trial, I think these outcomes are important to the wider story of the Danish Cartoon Controversy because it shows that the emphasis of at least one government's reaction to protests has less to do with the abstract principles of what the press will and should allow and the proper way to treat mamber of different religions and more to do with direct political realities of the blowing up kind. For a lot of people, this means when someone calls for attacks on home soil it puts them in the mind of, well, actual attacks that have happened on home soil, not how the rhetoric builds off of a newspaper suite of cartoons several months earlier. This Daily Mirror editorial, agree or disagree with it, unpacks that position pretty forcefully.
 
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