Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* the Danish cartoons have re-emerged as a political football as Dutch authorities have decided to prosecute the Arab European League for a cartoon that suggests that Jewish authorities have inflated the numbers involved in the Holocaust. Needless to say, the fact that the same authorities declined to prosecute Geert Wilders' Muhammad cartoons-including film has not been lost on politicians in the vicinity. And... that's pretty much it. An editorial in The Australian expresses the view that these instances should not be compared.

* a group of high-profile Yale alumni have expressed disappointment in the university press' decision to withhold re-publication of the original Danish Muhammad cartoons from a forthcoming book on the affair.

* a Saudi Arabian group recently renewed its call that Danish newspaper apologize for reproducing the image, and while those papers don't seem to be falling over themselves to comply, it appears some sort of move or response other than a flat "no" may be in the process of being discussed.
 
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