Cartoon protests - yes, still spamming.

[icarus]

In a new turn, a prominent Iranian newspaper, Hamshahri, invited artists to enter a Holocaust cartoon competition, saying it wanted to see if freedom of expression — the banner under which many Western publications reprinted the prophet drawings — also applied to Holocaust images.

Good point. Suddenly the Islamic cartoon protests make sense to me (if not the violence).

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I hadn't thought of it that way, but it starts to explain the intensity of reaction.

Icarus

[ursula]

In Europe I think this picks up on the same anger about the status of immigrants that fueled the riots in France a few months ago . . .