Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* this summary of the recent dismissal of human rights charges against Canadian Ezra Levant notes that Levant reportedly spent approximately $100,000 in his defense and still faces 17 charges in various venues stemming from the republication of the Danish Muhammed caricatures in his then-existent Western Standard.

* the trial of two men accused of planning a bomb attack within Denmark began Monday, this article notes. The article notes that the Danish Cartoons Controversy of 2006 has changed the way the country orients itself to potential violence that that asserted here.

* I haven't really covered a decision by Random House to withdraw a novel of Muhammed's youngest wife because a) it's not comics, and b) various aspects sound so stupid I was afraid I might end up throwing myself off of a balcony. But certainly the debate about the work, its asserted threat to instigate terrorism against the publisher and Ballantine's decision to bail are all framed in part by the controversy surrounding the 2005 Muhammed caricatures.
 
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