Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* I hadn't known there was a link between the arrests for a plot to kill cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and earlier terrorism-related arrests in Denmark, let alone that there was crossover in terms of personnel.

* a Norwegian politician urges folks to buy Danish in order to mitigate any damage caused by recent boycotts of goods from Denmark following the republication of Kurt Westergaard's bomb-in-turban cartoon.

* it's even harder than usual to support American conservative leaders in their objections against certain expressions of art when they insist on boiling down what tend to be complicated political contexts for such events into the insultingly simplistic, self-serving, and absurdly blind to the history of domestic terrorism line of thinking "they'll say stuff about Christians but not about Muslims because Christians won't terrorize them."

* Wafa Sultan, who among other statements has suggested that the behavior of extremists is a far greater stain on Islam than the satire of cartoonists, is the target of a legitimate death threat.

* I don't know if this is the best editorial written by a student on the Danish cartoons, or really where it lands on the scale of such writings, but it's certainly one of the longest.
 
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