Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* the recent flaring up of the Danish Cartoons-related news, in dateline fashion.

* in the best-traveled, sort-of Danish Cartoons-related news of the day, mostly I think because people love typing "YouTube," the Great Pakistani YouTube Nightmare is over.

* in what seems like a much more significant move, Sudan has banned import of Danish goods. It's interesting to read articles like this one, because while the recent triggering incident was the republication of a Kurt Westergaard cartoon, these articles just make various political faction mad all over again at the whole darn thing. Which I guess they are. And how bad are a things going when a country filled to the brim with flashes of genocidal murder and other craziness puts a ban on you?

* this thinkpiece allows that radical Islam is being attacked -- by rational thought.

* Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen admits that Danish authorities have no clear picture where any of this is going. "We respect Islam," he says.

* Flemming Rose calls out Bill Clinton on the matter.

* religious minorities call on the International Court of Justice to try Danish authorities and various media people for publishing the blasphemous cartoons. I know none of this is funny, but International Court of Justice sure does sound like something from a cartoon.

* a convention in Karachi discussed the cartoons.

* Salman Rushdie talked about them during a recent speaking appearance at a university.

* the Committee to Protect Journalists makes a good point that Aleksandr Sdvizhkov never should have been convicted in the first place, and that conviction should have been overturned, not reduced.

* they're still talking about yesterday's flag-burnings in Jordan. Elements in that country want the Danish consulate expelled.
 
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