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July 17, 2007


Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

With sentencing news in the case of Muslims convicted from crimes rising out of riots in London about the 2005 Danish newspaper Muhammed caricatures expected tomorrow, a piece of news I missed stands out today. Apparently, last week Denmark's Islamic Faith Community lost a libel case stemming from being accused of "treason" by going on tour in part to drum up international support for their position on those newspaper cartoons. It was determined that the term was used extensively in public debate, and was therefore not libelous.
 
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