Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* Oslo prosecutor Geir Evanger said his office will try three terrorism suspects for a plot to harm Danish Muhammed caricature cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and the Jyllands-Posten newspaper building that originally released those drawings. That should start next month.

* as terrorists seemingly come in groups of three now, another such cluster (gaggle? pride?) of such men was revealed to have targeted a Lars Vilks book promotional appearance in Gothenburg, Sweden. Vilks was not an original Danish Cartoons Controversy cartoonist or really a cartoonist by trade at all, but an artist that during the political turmoil surrounding those cartoons' publication drew a picture of Muhammed's head on the body of a dog.

* according to this article, a 2006 television report about the Danish Cartoons was the fulcrum point for a study about religion's impact on media perception.

* a columnist named Diana West feels the Kurt Westergaard bomb-in-turban cartoon needed to be a part of the 9/11 anniversary celebrations. I'm not certain I agree with that -- although I'm almost convinced just by the size of her photo -- but certainly media outlets should have run the cartoon art after it became an international news story.

* speaking of the Westergaard bomb-in-turban drawing, that exact tactic is apparently enough of a thing now there are entire articles written about it.
 
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