Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

There's a piece up at Commentary drawing a strong contrast between recent cartoons with anti-Semitic imagery and the Jyllands-Posten cartoonist. I guess it's come up, or if it hasn't the author thinks it should have. The article has a slightly more sophisticated view of the Muhammad cartoons than most pieces using it as a springboard to advocacy, although not by much. I'm not even sure the central point makes sense. For instance, it's silly to suggest that the Muhammad cartoons evoked a massive set of riots and protests and these new ones haven't. You're missing a step. The reason why there was a delayed reaction to the cartoons isn't that people needed to coordinate their rioting calendars but because the publication of those cartoons was transformed into a political issue by a massive, ongoing set of political campaigns devoted to fomenting troubles of exactly the kind that developed. At any rate, the story is a fun look at the way the Jyllands-Posten cartoons are used as a rhetorical hammer.
 
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