Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* in one of the more horrible developments not involving someone's death, the cartoonist Molly Norris, whose "Everybody Draw Muhammed Day" cartoon was taken up by free speech enthusiasts and used against her will for a public event resulting in her making the hit list of an influential imam, has on advice from FBI contacts with whom she was working since the thread dropped from public view. On her own dime. At the very least this means the termination of her public cartooning career, and it's actually through her client Seattle Weekly that the news was first made known. That news has neither been denied nor confirmed by publications contacting the FBI, beyond a blanket denial that they are in the advice-giving business as opposed to helping someone secure such advice. I can't imagine anything fitting to drive us into the forthcoming five-year anniversary than something idiotic and unnecessary running into some asshole's despicable political agenda with an innocent victim suffering as a result. Good job, everybody. Safe journey, Ms. Norris.

* David Coleman Headley, the one-time wannabe bomber of the Danish cartoon publishing Jyllands-Posten newspaper office, continues to make news by supplying political intelligence to Indian officials about the scout work he did in preparation for the Mumbai mass shootings in 2008. Why he seems to be taken at his word with every motive to cause as much trouble as possible, I'm not exactly sure.

* various folks continue to make political opinion hay of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's keynote speech at an awards ceremony that gave one of its recognitions to Danish Cartoons artist Kurt Westergaard.
 
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