Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard will have new work coming out: illustrations in a book. The cartoonist, who became a flashpoint for simmering resentments from 2005's publication of Muhammed caricatures when an assassination plot against him was revealed, has been back home since this summer. I did not know that.

* the stay in-country of two Tunisian nationals accused of participating in that plot has motivated politicians in Denmark to reconsider those rules.

* I totally missed this editorial about the republication earlier this year that happened when papers wished to show solidarity with Westergaard. It's as good as anything I've seen that shows how many were deeply upset by the republication, even those that understood the initial impulses to publish back in 2005.

* this editorial warns against a 2009 conference that's acting as a sequel to an anti-racism conference back in 2001; he expects a lot of references to the Danish Cartoons Controversy.

* way down at the bottom of this post is news of a book accusing governmental conspiracy in the initial publication of the caricatures. The fact that it's come up at all in a way I can access it indicates it's gained at least a little bit of traction.

* one Vatican official sees all this dialogue between Christians and Muslim as maybe not an automatically awesome thing.

* this walk against violence in Canada brings up some of the feelings brought to the surface by the cartoons and some of the post-publication legal shenanigans.

* the cartoon-inspired bombing at the Danish embassy in Pakistan was videotaped.
 
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