Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* major arrests in last summer's bombing of the Danish embassy in Islamabad.

* Gregorius Nekschot speaks in Denmark. I wasn't aware the government agency that had him arrested was created in direct response to the cartoons controversy. I don't have any reason to doubt him, though. Here's the text from his speech.

* as much as there's room to be totally critical of the initial and I think lousy decision to run the cartoons, I'm still made uncomfortably by even non-binding resolutions that have been brought about or have become more popular in part because of the uproar following the cartoons.

* I object to this characterization I see every so often that no editors in North America ran the offending cartoons. Not many traditional media people did. I'm deeply critical of that because after the riots started the need for readers to be informed was greater than the risk of offending people. Still, it needs to be noted that a lot of on-line sites like this one ran the cartoons starting on day one. And judging from our e-mail back then we were just as likely to receive negative and even scary feedback for doing so.

* I don't have time to read and consider this article so that I can know whether to endorse it or criticize it, but an essay that uses the cartoons as part of a worldwide struggle with the idea of freedom of speech vs. freedom from attack based on religion should almost endorse itself.

* it's still driving sizable conferences.

* there's a small mention in this newspaper article that talks about how some of the western ideas countries like Abu Dhabi are embracing for the economic principles they support may at times come into conflict with things like negative reaction to the Muhammed cartoons.

* this is the third anniversary of Jyllands-Posten's apology in Saudi newspapers. I'm at the point where I don't really recall that move specifically, but it sure sounds like that's what the almanac is talking about.
 
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