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October 2, 2008


Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* Jyllands-Posten editor Flemming Rose is shopping a book, and seems to feel that the reason he has no US buyers is because American book publishers are fearful of reprisal.

* Ezra Levant has a book, too.

* this article seeks to compare European and American reactions to what the author feels was the more general issue driving the Danish Cartoons controversy.

* the third anniversary of the original publication of the Muhammed caricatures in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten took place on Tuesday.

* speaking of anniversaries...

* I'm not going to pretend I'm able to sort out the various stories about a fire set at a publisher's home in the UK who decided to publish a novel about the Prophet Muhammed's child bride, but this article draws comparisons between this incident and some of the aspects of the Danish Cartoons Controversy.
 
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