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May 17, 2010


Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

There's only one story today, but it's an awful-sounding one: the artist Lars Vilks is in hiding after arsonists attempted to burn down his home, according to a variety of international wire reports. Vilks was recently head-butted while giving a speech that included the showing of a film with adult content that depicted Muhammed, and has enjoyed worldwide media coverage after renewed attention was paid his 2007 cartoon-like doodle of a dog with Muhammad's head -- both by the press and the people who would wish to do harm to those who make such an image. Two men have been arrested.
 
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