Your Daily Danish Cartoons Update

* Very little in the way of demonstrations, with this one in India being the sole protest worthy of front-page search-engine status. The demonstrations over the last three weeks, an accompanying boycott, and a worldwide bodycount in the upper two figure range, can be traced back to the publication of 12 cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (timeline, cartoons).

* Speaking of India, their courts seem to be where all the action is this week. Yesterday a court called for the death of the cartoonists. Today, this. Russian prosecutors will take a peek at Chechen actions a couple of weeks back.

* A second newspaper in Russia has closed because of publishing the cartoons.

* In nerd-fatwa news, apparently no web site is safe in this hostile, post-Jyllands-Posten world. The thing I like about this story is how exact these numbers are. If I get shut down, is there someone I'm supposed to immediately e-mail?

* In political news, the Danish ambassador has returned to Jakarta. Danish non-governmental folk and relief aid workers are leaving Pakistan. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen asks everyone to re-cast the whole issue according to its wider implications, and no thank you to any inquiries.

* Someone asked me this morning if I've changed my mind from my initial, personal take on the whole matter. No, not yet.

* Christopher Hitchens takes on the subject one more time, with a call for a pro-Denmark rally. Daniel Pipes talks about his own involvement, which he says he found out about mostly by reading web sites.
 
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