Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* Mohammed Hassan Khalid has plead guilty to his role in a plot to kill the artist Lars Vilks for making a drawing of the Prophet Muhammed head on the body of a dog. Vilks' action was the highest-profile artistic response to the original Danish cartoons, and he tends to be described as a cartoonist and lumped in with the other cartoonists participating in that original publication of caricatures despite a very different specific context to each expression. Because Khalid was in contact with Colleen LaRose, you're going to see the "Jihad Jane" angle pushed, I think because people like that name so much. Khalid is likely the youngest person found guilty of terrorism-related charges in American history.

* a violent instance in Bonn unfolds in exactly the depressing way everyone involved must have known it would.
 
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