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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 12:00 AM

Rotten judgment in the state of Denmark

The Danish paper that printed the cartoons wanted to stir up trouble -- and the government wanted a culture war. They got more than they bargained for.
By Jytte Klausen

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  • Tuesday, February 7, 2006 09:19 PM

    Manufactured outrage

    TV and radio personalities in the US say worse things about islam every day, without incident. The real story here is on who it was who decided to dig up an old cartoon from a small European country in a language few people speak and turn it into a worldwide "outrage." Free dailies in NYC probably have a larger readership than the Danish newspaper that printed the cartoons.

    —azathoth Read azathoth's other letters

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