Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* it has to be that I've just missed it, but I don't think I've ever read Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak to the Danish Cartoons Controversy of 2006 before. This article about the controversial politician's address to a conference organized by a London think tank emphasizes her call for Muslims to protest terrorist acts just as many moderate Muslims deplored the violence that erupted due to a Denmark newspaper publishing 12 caricatures of Muhammed in Fall 2005. To remind us just how Hirsi Ali's experience and views may be different than our own, the paper notes she's still under 24-hour protection after a 2004 death threat from the murderers of filmmaker Theo van Gogh -- a threat they pinned to his chest with a knife.

* this article profiles one of the figures that received a big boost by his actions following the 2006 violence -- the charismatic Egyptian preacher Amr Khaled.
 
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