Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* one of the bigger but harder to see outcomes of the riots and political unrest traced back to Danish newspaper Jylland-Posten's publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed is how it will have an impact on the shape of legal matters in Muslim-dominated countries. One country working a razor's edge under the dark cloud of last year's chaos, at least from one article writer's point of view: Morocco. I'm uncomfortable with elements of press freedom being portrayed as a negotiable political outcome, but it's certainly a widely-held point of view.

* Arla Foods UK agrees to buyout, perhaps the most important economic outcome that can be traced, at least in some tiny part, to the economic performance of companies affected by worldwide boycotts during last year's tumultuous Danish Cartoons affair.
 
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