[lit-ideas] The latest on the cartoon frenzy

  • From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:55:21 -0800

Iran denies that it stoked the cartoon fires:
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/article_1096126.php/Iranian_V
P_rejects_US_accusations_of_inflaming_Muslim_anger 

 

Islamic boycott over cartoons costing Danes millions:
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-world.asp?parentid=38732 

 

UK says free speech should override religious sensitivities:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5494602 

 

Hundreds of thousands protest cartoons in Beirut:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews
<http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=200
6-02-09T165243Z_01_SP33488_RTRUKOC_0_UK-RELIGION-CARTOONS.xml>
&storyID=2006-02-09T165243Z_01_SP33488_RTRUKOC_0_UK-RELIGION-CARTOONS.xml 

 

Thousands protest cartoons in South Africa:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395376097
<http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395376097&pagename=JPost%2FJ
PArticle%2FShowFull> &pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull 

 

Europe has "Clash of Civilizations" over cartoons:
http://www.forbes.com/business/2006/02/08/europe-civilization-clash_cx_0209o
xford.html 

 

Canada takes position similar to U.S. on cartoons:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060209.CARTOONMAIN09/TPSt
ory/TPInternational/ 

 

Koreans don't understand why Danes wanted to insult Muslims in cartoons -
they think it is a Western thing:
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200602/kt2006020917020754240.htm 

 

 

 

Lawrence

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