Your Daily Danish Cartoons Update

* I know, I know. I tried to find another comics-related story that had the United States Secretary of State hitting the Sunday morning talk shows giving dire warnings about the potential for increased violence worldwide, but I came up short. So you're stuck with at least a few more days of link-blogging on perhaps the biggest cartoon-related story of all time.

* If you're trying to jumpstart your memory, hoping to catch up, or diving into the story of protests traced back to the publication by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten of cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammed for the first time, you might try this CBC timeline of events. CNN has done .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) throughout.

*The top political story sees Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen meeting with moderate Muslim leaders in his own country, which is probably the most positive story to appear near the top of one of these updates. Although when your second graph has the phrase "graves desecrated," there's obviously still some work to do. Here's a full story on that charming development. This after the country recalled diplomats from Syria, Iran and Indonesia. This apparently irritated Idonesia.

* Here's a nice summary article on the economic losses thus far caused by boycotts of Danish goods.

* I'm just now catching up to this Ted Rall cartoon on the subject. Editor & Publisher has a round-up of syndicated columnists. Sequential has a Canadian editorial cartoonist response. This blog seems to have devoted a lot of its recent coverage to the ongoing story. iFilm has an Iranian TV broadcast on the matter.

* In the "How did it come to this again?" file, this New Zealand newspaper article sent to me by Dylan Horrocks is the best I've seen so far as to how the agitation of Danish imams could become an explosive international series of incidents -- via a summit in Mecca. Comics blogging sensei Dirk Deppey at TCJ.com brings our attention to this cool, almost Encyclopedia Brown-style investigation into calligraphy techniques of one of the three non-Jyllands-Posten cartoons making the rounds.

* I didn't know that the Associated Press refused to make the cartoons available to its subscribers, probably the most distressing news yet to come out of North American newspaper's general avoidance of the issue. My new favorite editor Don Holland blasts the AP for taking the decision out of their clients' hands.

* Again, if you haven't seen the original cartoons, they can be found here or here. The ones in the original group -- not the group of three that showed up later that are under attack as fakes -- that seem to get the most criticism are "bomb as turban" and "virgins joke."
 
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