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October 11, 2006


New, Video-Driven Danish Cartoons Controversy Sees Embassy Set On Fire

The Danish embassy in Tehran was set on fire by protestors, international news agencies report, as consternation spreads about videos depicting anti-immigration political party youth making Muhammed cartoons in August as part of a camp activity. Last year's publication of Muhammed caricatures in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten set off a major wildstorm of international protests, boycotts and violence, including dozens upon dozens of deaths. Other developments.

* a creative alternative to violent protest: draw the King of Denmark among pigs.

* Indonesia condemns the video.

* Danish muslims back away from reacting beyond denouncing the video.

* the context: a politically calcified, increasingly worried Europe?
 
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