Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* here's a long article summarizing the Lars Vilks Saga to date. Vilks is the artist who drew Muhammed's head on the body of dog, sparking the current run of Muhammed-and-art stories.

* I linked to a story about the conservative newspaper Western Standard losing its print edition without providing any context. As this story discusses, the paper's claim to fame in its short publishing history was being the only Canadian publication to publish the Danish cartoons as they were claimed as the cause for riots around the world in Winter 2006. What I didn't know is that they're still facing hate crime charges for doing so, a trial that will start in November. That's awful. As much as I question the wisdom of their original publication, it was an absolute, proper application of journalistic mandate for any and all news organizations to reprint those cartoons when what they looked like was a huge issue in an unfolding news story.

* One of the men serving time for inciting racial hatred during a protest of the cartoons in London is back in the news for writing aggressive anti-Western poetry. Not to make light of someone acting out of a sense of injustice, but I think that guy should find a friend to follow him around who will cuff him on the head whenever he decides to go anywhere, say anything or write stuff that keeps him from his family.
 
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