Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* this article's tone seems to me a bit different than what you usually find on the general subject, but is also indicative of a growing sentiment that may seem obvious from the outside-in but takes a certain amount of cultural will to express within those countries. Their specific take as it relates to the cartoons is in portraying incidents of agitation with the cartoons as ostensible cause not as such but instead an opportunity seized on by an extremist group to further their agenda.

* anyone protesting expressions that tweak, ridicule or question religious practices is likely to be compared to the Muslim leaders who protested the Muhammed caricatures, like it or not. This article makes the case for differences in one such case, albeit a distinction that counts on taking the motivations behind the original publication of the caricatures at almost better than face value.

* I think this article mostly describes how South Park dealt with these kinds of issues rather than makes the case that how the show dealt with them was worth saluting, but it's always interesting to be reminded how Comedy Central chickened out.
 
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