Your Irregular Danish Cartoons Update: Bombs, Kuwaiti Boycotts, Apologies

* It's not the political version of delayed stress syndrome that sees Kuwaiti politicians agitating for a complete severing of ties with Denmark. The publication of caricatures of Muhammed by the newspaper Jyllands-Posten a year ago September was significant, but this is also pretty clearly linked to a much more recent video of political party youth drawing caricatures and a cartoon of Muhammed as a pedophile in a web site and magazine suggesting a continuation of the insult.

* Speaking of delayed reactions, the wires this morning are filled with iterations of this semi-lengthy report on how some Danish Muslims now say that the discovery two months ago of a serious bomb plot aimed at Denmark are making things more difficult in this, the post-Danish Cartoons Controversy world. Heinous bomb plots do tend to be tricky PR-wise.

* Mizanur Rahman apologizes for strong statements made during a London protest of the cartoons earlier this year, statements that have led to his arrest and trial. The Rahman trial is important as one of our few windows into how the various worldwide protests developed on the ground.
 
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