Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* this is the first follow-up article I've seen -- which only means that it's the first English-language one to make the wires that I've noticed -- on the horribly violent riots in Nigeria that were attributed to the Danish Cartoons.

* this essay takes a rudimentary historical assignment made about those arguing some of the issues involved and uses the rhetorical tactic of claiming that language as a positive. This line about a newspaper's decision whether or not to re-publish the cartoons made me laugh: "The cartoons are both of poor quality, and stupid, so it was decided not to publish them."

* I don't think I've seen this strong a suggestion that a failed attempt to bomb a couple of trains in Cologne last year was due to the cartoons controversy, although there had certainly been hints.
 
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