Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* does this headline seem slightly snotty, or is it just me? At any rate, there's some news in there about the proceedings against the three men reported to be plotting the assassination of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

* preachers in Yemeni decried the recent republication of Westergaard's bomb-in-turban Muhammed caricature during Friday prayers, although I'm not exactly sure how that works. Here's a summary of what's going on in Yemeni, seemingly the most politically active of any country this time around.

* the Canadian Association of Journalists is calling for amendments in national and province human rights legislation in part for the recent application of those laws to Ezra Levant and the now-defunct Western Standard for their publication of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammed caricatures.

* speaking of Western Standard, here's an article that touches on the Muhammed caricatures, asserting at least one article I'd never heard before: that from what we know of history, you could argue the caricatures were accurate.

* Justin Hudnall writes on the matter entire, although he's on shaky ground by accepting without caveat that certain riots were caused by the republication of the cartoons. As has been pointed out a number of times, this is seriously doubtful, although there is quite a bit to right about the cartoons being used in a political way as a cited cause of such actions, even if they're not the real cause.
 
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