Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* reports are ripping through the wires concerning rumors that a man who caused an explosion in a Copenhagen hotel was on his way to cause destructive chaos at the Jyllands-Posten newspaper building housing the publication that published the initial Danish cartoons. As you may or may not recall, when David Coleman Headley made himself available to help commit certain terrorist acts the organizations he contacted were adamant that the newspaper building be blown up as opposed to some other less extreme and less ridiculously hard-to-pull-off act against the publisher.

* a Danish grocery store chain won't carry Danish cartoons cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's biography when it comes out in November, they decided to announce ahead of time for some odd reason. The Monster & Critics post that started it all passes along false information that the bomb-in-turban Muhammad cartoon for which Westergaard is best known will be on the cover of that book; the publisher has denied that strongly, and the cover they've released has nothing of the kind on it.

* I can't remember the time someone in the traditional comics blogosphere commented on the Danish Cartoons, so I was happy to see Sean T. Collins engage a related issue or two at the bottom of this post.

* finally, as one might have expected, Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel has been slammed for both providing the keynote speech at an awards ceremony in Potsdam that honored Kurt Westergaard, and for the free-speech elements of that address.
 
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