Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* the Ottawa Citizen weighs in on Ezra Levant's appearance before an Alberta human rights commission for re-publishing the cartoons in the new defunct Western Standard and the resulting controversy.

* one of the more significant outcomes of the Danish Cartoons Controversy is how officials in London efficiently and rigorously used the protests to help identify and pursue action against individuals believed to be involved in potential criminal activity in general, in this case the search of living spaces by those appearing in some protests.

* this review claims that the Danish Cartoons provided such a clear and weighty perspective on the idea that what is funny to one person might be offensive to another that it obviates the need for thing "dire exercise in curatorial self-indulgence." That's a killer phrase, by the way.

* several participants at a Civil Society Organizations conference in Yemen refused the support of the Danish Institute for Human Rights because of the 2005 Muhammed caricatures and resulting firestorm.

* two Indian Muslim organizations have condemned the recent decision by Danish national archivists to collect the original cartoons for posterity.
 
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