Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* so Anders Fogh Rasmussen is apparently a favorite to become Secretary General of NATO. Part of what might scotch his bid is heavily-Muslim Turkey's reluctance to back him based on his actions as Denmark's leader during the Danish Cartoons Controversy. Longtime CR readers will note the oddity of the cartoons controversy coming into play in terms of criticism from Turkey, a country where government figures including their three-name bearing Prime Minister seem to routinely sue cartoonists and the magazines that publish them. Maybe that's what Rasmussen should have done: just started suing people.

* you can hear Rasmussen talk about the foreign relations aspect of the Cartoons Controversy in this interview with ultra-slick Monocle magazine.

* here's a pretty good article on how the Cartoons Controversy has changed the tenor of dialogue around religious defamation as a human rights issue. Not much new there, but it's a pretty good wrap-up.

* just so you can see how the lessons of the cartoons can be used in just about any way you desire, here they are being used as justification for criticizing the HBO show Big Love.

* finally, the magnificently-named Hisham Hellyer recalls one of the little-publicized efforts by some moderate Muslims in the wake of the cartoon protests.
 
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