Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* the Danish daily Politiken reports that three men were arrested yesterday and that one of them has confessed that they were hoping to carry out attacks on the Jyllands Posten newspaper offices (that publication published the original Danish Muhammed cartoons) and some of its principal actors such as the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

* Flemming Rose's The Tyranny Of Silence hits shelves today. That book contains a full reprinting of the Muhammad imagery that started the whole Danish Cartoons Controversy cycle of events. Denmark's foreign minister is taking a proactive approach this time around.

* distressing news that around twenty newspapers have asked for replacements for a Wiley Miller Non Sequitur strip that mentioned the name Muhammed. This is particularly ironic/depressing since the strip apparently touched on the issue of the blinding fear that people have about the use of signifying elements that are not depictions of the Prophet at all. Miller tells Alan Gardner that the terrorists have won.
 
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