Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* I'd say it's safe to say that every single thing being written about wannabe Jyllands-Posten destroyer David Coleman Headley's testimony to Indian authorities about his scouting work for the Mumbai attacks is going to be soaked to the bone with political bias, but it makes for very compelling reading and the idea that Headley might be pushing an agenda through his plea-bargained access to certain officials always seemed to me a possibility.

* I didn't know this was possible, but a Florida church group has found to make this year's 9/11 more awful than ever. The link that interests me is the idea of Koran burning as a sort of super-sized Muhammed drawing.

* this barely relates, the New Statesman uses the cartoons as a springboard to discuss the British devotion to satire generally and cartooned satire specifically. Where this articles falls down a little bit for me is that I don't remember the British being extra-shocked by the Danish cartoons, let alone that they felt this way from some deep reserve of appreciation for their rich cartooning traditions. Mostly I remember British authorities taking the hammer to a younger generation of Muslim leaders who led protests -- justified or not, I have no idea -- without much dismay or turmoil present in any form. It's true that cartoon satire should be at the heart of every healthy democracy; I'd say any healthy modern nation.
 
posted 11:45 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
 
Full Archives