Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* no surprise that the lingering fall-out from last week's Everybody Draw Mohammad Day is focused on Zapiro's cartoon and the efforts to block it from publication. Zapiro is a huge figure in the press down there, and a lightning rod for controversy, so his participation was bound to result in the most dramatics. Here's a decent general article on how that story has developed.

* here's another pretty good general write-up, focusing on the creation of a new group whose first action is to object to the cartoon.

* a not-as-new group has denounced the death threats against Zapiro.

* this article suggests that one reason that South Africans are touchy about this issue right now is that it's all happy faces forward as they prepare to host soccer's World Cup.

* here's a round-up of some bloggish reaction as it became focused on Zapiro's participation in the event.

* the Facebook page through which the event was organized was the locus point for some on-line shenanigans, as in the reveal of personal information for one of the event boosters. With death threats in the air, identification theft and subsequent public airing of that information put things into a potentially different and troubling light.

* finally, I had no idea that Over The Hedge participated.
 
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