Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen: Danish Cartoons Now Forgotten

In an interview leading up to elections November 13, Denmark's prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated that the Danish Cartoons Controversy no longer effects his country's image abroad and that people have "forgotten" the cartoon crisis. The publication of twelve caricatures in a Danish newspaper in 2005 led to riots and economic boycotts and even deaths in several countries in the the first quarter of 2006. As readers of this blog know, echoes of those events continue to be felt or at least reported on in nearly every instance of controversy surrounding the depiction of Muhammed in illustrated form, from that of the Swedish artist Lars Vilks and the jailed Bangladeshi cartoonist Arifur Rahman. Where Rasmussen may be most correct is in identifying a growing impatience with the subject, or disfavor for the subject matter, among those more immersed in it from day one.
 
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