Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* grocery stores in the United Arab Emirates and Oman have started to boycott Danish good in response to the widespread republication a few weeks back of Kurt Westergaard's bomb-in-turban caricature of Muhammed that originally appeared in Jyllands-Posten in 2005 and helped give rise to the Danish Cartoons Controversy of early 2006.

* the Union Cooperative society in Dubai has joined them.

* Denmark's biggest food-related corporation, Arla, fears this boycott might be worse than the one they faced in 2006.

* they haven't stopped protesting the old-fashioned way yet, either.

* someone put up a fake profile of Kurt Westergaard on Facebook, and he's not happy about that.

* the weirdest news in this article about Westergaard continuing to want to sell the original bomb-in-turban cartoon is that Flemming Rose was selling autographed posters of the Muhammed caricatures for approximately $750 USD a pop during a speaker's tour.

* this editorial in Uzbekistan joins the call for a widespread boycott of Danish products.

* the republication has upped the threat of terroristic violence against Danes and in Denmark, an intelligence organization reports.
 
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