Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update: NYROB Summary Article

* Malise Ruthven pens a long, summary-style article on the Danish Cartoons phenomenon for The New York Review of Books. If you've been blowing these article off for a while now -- and who the heck would blame you? -- this one is a nice re-read just to refresh you on the broad strokes of the last five years. I would disagree with Ruthven most strongly that the original intent of the Jylland-Posten publication of the images was satirical as opposed to a kind of crudely conceived free speech protest.

* one intriguing article linked to in the Ruthven piece is this one from a private consultant about terrorism risks in the year ahead, which focuses on Danish Cartoons-related potential for violence.

* if you're hearing the name Youssef al-Qaradawi a lot in terms of the current country-to-country turmoil in the Middle East and think that name sounds familiar, you may recall -- perhaps assisted by the Ruthven piece -- that he was the one that kind of accelerated the original crisis by calling for a "day of rage" against the Danish Cartoons. Here's a profile.
 
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