Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* the Japanese manga publisher Shueisha and the anime company APPP are poring over their respective iterations of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure after halting shipments of the anime following complaints that one of the villains in the cartoon version was reading from the Koran while ordering the death of the protagonist. According to this report, the specific, objectionable content on the pages was added by the anime company, without the knowledge of the manga publisher or the original cartoonist, Hirohiko Araki. The cartoon will be changed before re-release. It sounds like what's being looked at now are some scenes with architecture that may be taken as mosques.

* a coalition of political parties and other groups in Jordan will renew their devotion to a boycott of Dutch and Danish products for various offenses including the original Jyllands-Posten Muhammed caricatures. The campaign will launch June 10.

* FrontPage has more on the problems facing the Dutch cartoonist known as Gregorius Nekschot.
 
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