Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* although it's only a side remark and not the main subject of this article, apparently a Canadian magazine has been "called before the Alberta Human Rights Commission to answer questions about its decision to publish the Danish Muhammad cartoons."

* although this article in the Yemen Times asks you not to be pessimistic, it points out how the Danish Cartoons could provide a kidney punch to the improvement of press freedoms even in those countries where things otherwise looked to be going pretty well.

* this article seems intellectually sloppy to me, and not just because the French prosecutor came down on the other side in resounding fashion what I'm guessing is a couple of days after the Sunday feature-style article was filed. I don't think its examples are exact, and it's hard to prove a trend with inexact examples. Still, if you're a free speech advocate, the general thrust of reactions to the Danish Cartoons controversy have probably engendered something between slight dismay to outright horror.

* the ADL says that a lot of people think the Jews are responsible for the whole magilla.

* in I should hope not news, a British college student responsible for one of the images running in the student paper will not face police charges, it was announced Friday. I hadn't heard of this before this article, and I'm glad to have avoided the months of nausea it would have caused me.
 
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