Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* when artist Lars Vilks made a cartoon with Muhammed's head on the body of the dog, who knew where notoriety might lead? He first became a cartoonist, which is a rather misleading read of his career; then the Swedish artist became one of the Danish cartoonists in all but technical reality, especially in terms of being accosted and defamed and lumped into general criticisms of such cartoons (his coming well after the initial Danish cartoons). Now, according to the opening day of a trial against two brothers seeking to burn down his home, he's Islam's greatest enemy.

* this is one of those "frame of reference" articles that may only interest me, but a photo-shopped montage featuring an Islamic leader as a Catholic official has stirred regional religious passions along the same lines as the 2005 Danish Muhammad cartoons. The closer parallels here are the political maneuverings around the accusations, not so much the accusations themselves.
 
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