Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* the Copenhagen Post digs into that bizarre trial in Jordan of a "heck no, I'm not going anywhere near there" Kurt Westergaard and 19 other defendants for making/use of the Danish cartoons. Apparently even a few local advocates of unity through Islam think it's a ridiculous show trial. They get a bit into what happens if the verdict comes back guilty -- there's no real mechanism for deporting someone convicted of a crime involving expression. The trial is currently suspended for another week or so, I believe, which allows for the writing of feature articles like this one.

* one of the men in Ireland accused of plotting to murder the artist Lars Vilks for his Muhammed-on-head-of-dog cartoon, done in part as a commentary on the Danish Cartoons Controversy, has lost his bid to have evidence tossed from the courts. That prosecution in general has gone swimmingly well for the authorities.
 
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