Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* it was mentioned on this site in the Random News updates, but those of you following the Danish Cartoons story here need to read about the horrific holiday plot to shoot up the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, a plot that was foiled. You could do worse than revisit than topic through Matthias Wivel's biting commentary on the incident. I hadn't thought about it, but I think Wivel's right in that the actions of what seem to be cynical political agents have strangely confirmed in roundabout, ironic fashion the "real threat" justification for making the cartoons in the first place.

* I found this article about British links to that plot fascinating and sort of scary. I never want to read "Mumbai-style" to describe anything cartoons-related ever again. For that matter, that's a depressing turn of phrase to describe anything, and kind of a mean thing to do to Mumbai.

* the men involved in the plot are being held in isolation until later this month.

* I missed this related sports story from over the holidays, which indicates how thoroughly this specific construction of terrorist activity has reached into all kinds of international relationship equations.

* an Indonesia man plotting to bomb that country's Danish embassy is currently on trial and faces the death penalty if convicted.

* this article suggests that the reason Jyllands-Posten remains a target and Politiken, a publication right next door that also published the images, is no longer as potent a target is because of the outcome of a civil suit settled in 2010 with an apology from the publication aimed at those offended. I'm not sure how much I believe that as I think the attacks on Jyllands-Posten are in part about making a wider, public political point as opposed to righting a wrong, but it's at least a new theory.

* Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist unearths some digging that's been done into any Wikileaks-related revelations about the original burst of protests back in 2006. Unsurprisingly, it looks as if there's evidence that the events were manipulated by political agents for greater perceived gain.

* finally this short interview with Suzan Khaled proves interesting for the context she provides and the insight she has into various areas according to her own profile: she's a young Danish-Arab journalist. It's easy to make a darkly humorous joke or 3500 about the "this is all a terrible misunderstanding" take on things, but it's one worth exploring.
 
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