Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* according to wire reports from late Thursday, a Dutch appeals court fined the Arab European League approximately $3200 USD for publishing a cartoon that denied the Holocaust. The group had published the cartoon for just this purpose, saying at the time that it would expose double standards in society in terms of who was offended. A court had exonerated the group in April; this was part of the appeals process.

* that region of Nigeria where over 100 people died in riots related to the original publication of the Danish Cartoons? Violence continues there almost unabated, and authorities this week may have put a stop to some of the worst yet.

* a survey in Denmark shows just how deeply the 2005 publication of the Danish Cartoons and its extended aftermath has changed life and outlooks in that country.

* the political furor surrounding former wannabe Jyllands-Posten blower-upper David Coleman Headley and his testimony about the 2008 Mumbai incident grow murkier by the day.
 
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