Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* the Somali man who went a-callin' on Danish Cartoons cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe, a knife and a strong desire to introduce himself has had a terrorism charge added to the regular charges that come with attempting to hack someone to death in their home.

* Michael Cavna has the most succinct summation of events that led to Mark Fiore receiving death threats for a cartoon about the Tea Bag movement, I guess drawing on the historical example of Samuel Adams and the Whigs threatening to terrorize any pamphleteers on Governor Hutchinson's side back in December 1773. Oh wait, they didn't do that. I thought about making an eye for an eye joke about editorial cartoonists and Fox News anchors, but there's really nothing funny about scaring some poor guy trying to do his job because you've convinced yourself that not liking his job justifies bullying him. Any attempt to ameliorate the toxicity of such an action by debating, say, whether Fiore's cartoon was offensive or not, seems to me to run dangerously close to providing backhanded justification to the douchebags who pranced across what should be a hard line concerning American discourse.

* Tahawwur Rana's bail request is on hold again, as the case may switch judges. Rana is one of two men accused of plotting to kill Kurt Westergaard, Flemming Rose and any random employees of Jyllands-Posten that may get in the way of goals one or two. Attempts to portray Rana as more of an innocent dupe have been countered by FBI evidence that suggest he knew about this plot and others to be perpetrated by David Coleman Headley.

* the Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting rid of three early images of Muhammad in its collection. This is potentially a move along the same lines of Yale University Press' decision not to publish the Danish Cartoons in a book about the Danish Cartoons: sort of about an odd, delayed reaction to the violence caused by those cartoons; more about the need to fund the institution.
 
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