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April 2011

April 23, 2011

The Arab Street is owed an apology!

Most of the time I post stuff about Denmark, it tends to be bad news--of...

November 2010

November 26, 2010

Saints of clay

There's an intriguing report on the website of the Chabad-Lubavitch, the most prominent branch of Hasidism (a...

June 2008

June 02, 2008

Danish embassy bombed in Islamabad

The Danish embassy in Islamabad was bombed today. No Danes were hurt, but several innocent...

March 2008

March 19, 2008

OBL threatens Europe after the republication of the Danish cartoons

The latest development in the cartoon wars.Bin Laden slams EU over prophet cartoons - Yahoo!...

March 07, 2008

Abdul Sattar on Danish cartoons

Abdul Sattar has a good post on the latest spasm of conflict over the Danish...

January 2008

January 13, 2008

New skirmishes in Denmark over the Jyllands-Posten cartoons

Speaking of Denmark, there have been interesting developments surrounding the cartoons that launched a thousand...

February 2007

February 28, 2007

Reflections on the Danish cartoons a year later

Danish journalist Jakob Illeborg has penned a balanced and insightful reflection in The Guardian Unlimited...

July 2006

July 31, 2006

Why Muslims don’t protest peacefully like civilized Westerners

A comrade commented on my post about the controversy among German Catholics over the "Popetown"...

July 30, 2006

German Catholics offended by “Simpsons”-style cartoon of Vatican

German Catholics call for censorship of seemingly considerably less offensive portrayal of Pope than the...

July 29, 2006

Compelling new evidence against Danish government’s handling of the cartoons

Have been too busy to blog lately, alas. A quick update on the Danish cartoon...

June 2006

June 20, 2006

Jyllands-Posten’s noble efforts finally bear fruit

Some considerably less upbeat news from the state of Denmark, and from Jutland, Jylland-Posten's heartland. ...

May 2006

May 17, 2006

Indian Christians: Ban ‘Da Vinci Code’

Ah, a picture is worth a thousand words. And for a change they're about non-Muslims....

May 16, 2006

The Da Vinci Code protests, or Christians get their “cartoons”

Speaking of the "Da Vinci Code", protests by offended Christians, particularly Catholics, are happening...

March 2006

March 19, 2006

Random Platitudes dissects the cartoon row

A Danish academic has provided a series of really informative and insightful posts on the...

March 11, 2006

Die Zeit on ‘Fortress Denmark’

Germany's Die Zeit weekly has just run a series of withering pieces on Denmark's rising...

March 05, 2006

Christian Science Monitor on protests in Afghanistan

Another example of there being far more than meets the eye to violent protests over...

March 03, 2006

Malaysian Islamists using cartoon row to silence independent media

I've commented on how I believe that the riots...I mean "protests"...in Pakistan by hardline Islamists...

March 03, 2006

Mob rule & what passes for piety among the mullahs

This article in IPS, "PAKISTAN: Cartoon Protests Cripple Local Trade", would make me laugh if...

March 02, 2006

Cartoon Body Count

CatoonBodyCount.com tracks deaths resulting from the Satanic scribblings. Its list of violent incidents (with links...

March 02, 2006

“Denmark’s Cartoon Blowback”

Professor As`ad Abu Khalil memorably named his blog, a refreshingly stimulating and bittersweet antidote to...

February 2006

February 23, 2006

The Ugly Duckling and the Cartoons

Haven't gotten a chance to read it yet completely, but the Danish Institute for International...

February 22, 2006

More on the Danish “children’s book” author

A commentor demanded, quite understandably, some links to substantiate my point in the last post...

February 21, 2006

The cartoon riots compared to America’s race riots

A scholar explores how recent American history proves the wisdom (and ubiquity) of self-censorship in...

February 20, 2006

Jyllands-Posten’s acrobatics & Salon piece

Salon has a great piece, aptly entitled "Rotten judgment in the state of Denmark", by...

February 17, 2006

Pakistanis protesting against cartoons

The grisly show continues, as mobs in Pakistan swing into action to defend the Prophet...

February 17, 2006

“Europe’s Contempt for Other Cultures Can’t be Sustained”

A stimulating analysis of the broader historical backdrop to these clashes, and how little right...

February 16, 2006

Fred Halliday on blasphemy & power

A good article in openDemocracy.net."Blasphemy and power" The theological and historical rhetoric of the cartoon...

February 13, 2006

The idiot cavalry rides again

A newspaper in Egypt has taught the Danes a lesson--that Egyptians can be as stupid...

February 13, 2006